Kamis, 02 Februari 2012

'They Use You Up': Hall Of Famer Dorsett Suing NFL

Pitt Football Alums Tony Dorsett at Gino Torre...Image via Wikipedia
By NANCY ARMOUR, HOWARD FENDRICH and MARTHA IRVINE
Associated Press

The helmet-to-helmet shot knocked Tony Dorsett out cold in the second quarter of a 1984 Cowboys-Eagles game, the hardest hit he ever took during his Hall of Fame NFL career.

"It was like a freight train hitting a Volkswagen," Dorsett says now.

"Did they know it was a concussion?" he asks rhetorically during an interview with The Associated Press. "They thought I was half-dead."

And yet, he says, after being examined in the locker room - a light shined in his eyes; queries such as who sat next to him on the Cowboys' bus ride to the stadium - Dorsett returned to the field and gained 99 yards in the second half. Mainly, he says, by running plays the wrong way, because he couldn't remember what he was supposed to do. MORE....

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