Interesting story on Wilber Marshall

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Originally Posted by QBall

Its shocking to see how many physical giants are destroyed after years of football. Why I wonder? More NFL than any other sport......

It's just such a pounding sport...I once read somewhere that the energy delivered when the linemen crash each other on a play is the equivalent of a 30 mph car wreck...then you have the excess weight that a lot of these guys carry, Mark Schlereth said the first thing he did when he retired was start a weight loss regimen (I think he lost 70 lbs.) to lighten up the load on his legs because he knew he was going to be hobbling around and he did want to make a bad situation worse. I don't blame guys like Robert Smith and Tiki Barber for retiring when they did...at least they will still have a body left when they hit 50....