Monday, February 09, 2004
MY GOODNESS
The piece that I just saw on the late SportsCenter on Hall-of-Fame Baltimore Colt tight end (and first president of the NFLPA) John Mackey has to be one of the saddest things I've ever seen in my life. Doubly sad is that Mackey's frontotemporal dementia was not diagnosed soon enough to where it qualified for some sort of NFL disability payment. Mackey and wife live off of NFL pension and his wife's flight attendant job. Just seeing how Mackey had little to no short-term memory was just saddening, it really was.
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