Real Sports' Look at the NFL and Concussions

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Originally Posted by GMScud

Wow. That's a horrific list of injuries. Did you play pro ball? If so, for who?

No pro ball. The injury to C1 in senior year of college put me out of football for good, except for coaching briefly. I was invited to the Dallas camp, but didn't report. No chance of passing a physical. Dallas was just starting up in those days and was handing out a lot of feelers and invites, even to players reportedly injured. I remember feeling at the time that Dallas had an up and coming front office and that the Cowboys would soon be a power. They were much more thorough in regard to scouting than other teams at that time.
As a matter of history: the Redskins soon followed Dallas' lead and ran their first try-out camp, which resulted in their acquiring Herb Mul Key. I think I'm right about this, though I've never seen it in print. I'm going purely by memory here and how it seemed to me at the time.