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Originally Posted by Tytanium
I feel like most normal people don't have 24 surgeries on one knee. That leg is also almost 3 inches shorter than his other leg.
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Because of an infection that set in after a knee surgery 15 years after he retired.
The leg wasn't shorter in 2003 and the guy retired in 1989. The leg hadn't had 24 surgeries on it in 2003.
He had some basic cleanup procedures done in the 80s (common for manual labor jobs) and when the knee degraded, he had it replaced (again, very common for manual labor jobs). A knee infection that his doctors suggest arose from a root canal then ate the bones up and yeah, a ton of surgeries followed.
This really isn't the NFL's fault any more than it's Walter Camp's fault for inventing American Football.