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It always kills me when Randle says "do the best you can:francis:...do the best you can:francis:"
 

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:to: now he can barely walk

Earl got up: Inside the second act of a Texas legend

He actually played his whole career with spinal stenosis. His doctor said that if it had been known, he wouldn’t be cleared to play.

"I know you were this great athlete that everybody knows -- Heisman Trophy winner, all this stuff -- but you probably should've never played football," Campbell said the doctor told him. "The amazing thing to me about Earl Campbell, this exceptional athlete I'm looking at, is that you weren't paralyzed."

Campbell learned he had played with spinal stenosis all his life.

It's a narrowing of the space inside the spine, leading to pressure on nerves, and causes pain, weakness or numbness. It's the same diagnosis that caused Michael Irvin to retire midseason and caused Cooper Manning to give up football at Ole Miss before his brothers went on to the NFL. Obviously, it would be a red flag for a football player like Campbell who ran with such brute force that he's celebrated in YouTube videos titled "The Human Wrecking Ball."

"Earl has been very lucky that he didn't have any catastrophes when he was playing," said Dr. Stan Jones, a spinal surgeon in Houston who performed Campbell's fifth, and he hopes, final, back procedure in 2008. "I think if people had known -- the doctors he was seeing at the time and the team doctors -- that he was really significantly stenotic, they wouldn't have let him play. He escaped a horrible possible situation."

The safety getting thrown is Michael Downs, who turned out to be a good player in the NFL

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I got in an argument with my pops before the 2019 draft. Niners had a high pick and all the experts were raving about Bosa. But I was like, this kid Quinnen Williams is just naturally big and strong and when he matures he's gonna be even scarier, we should take him. Pops was on the Bosa hype train, and he did have a great rookie year. But Bosa is the type of dude that lifts hella weight and carries too much muscle for his frame to handle. Plus Dude is always hurt. Injuries can happen too any athlete, but we in year 2 and Bosa already suffered a devastating injury. :francis:
 

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This thread reminding me why I think NFL athletes are the most freak of nature ass mothetfukkers in the whole world
 
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