Montana details damage from NFL career
In an interview with USA Today Sports, the four-time Super Bowl-winning quarterback detailed the ailments he continues to deal with after leaving football following the 1994 season.
They include: -- Arthritis. Montana told USA Today Sports of the inflammation in his hands: "In the middle of the night they hurt like crazy." He also has arthritis in one elbow and both his knees. -- A balky knee. Montana can't straighten his knee despite, according to USA Today Sports, having a half-dozen surgeries on it. He said he can't run much anymore and has been told he'll "need a knee replacement when I can't walk." -- A bad neck. Montana said he has already had three neck fusions and a fourth very well could be on the way. "The path of a nerve they think is being affected," he told USA Today Sports. -- A troublesome eye: Nerve damage has left Montana with what he labeled a "lazy eye to some degree because every time you're tired, it kind of goes wherever it feels like a little bit." He added to USA Today Sports: "Not dramatic but just enough where you can't read or you have to refocus. The constant physical woes are an everyday reminder of his 15-year playing career, 13 of which were with the San Francisco 49ers. He's back in the city this week as Levi's Stadium prepares to host Super Bowl 50 in nearby Santa Clara. Montana will handle the coin toss before the Denver Broncos and Carolina Panthers vie for an NFL championship Sunday night. "The mental part was hard initially when I first retired. Because it's quick -- cold turkey, the game's gone," Montana told USA Today Sports, recalling the years since he retired. "Then the physical stuff tries to catch up with you." And when it does, it keeps Montana from doing some of the things he loves, including physical outings with his wife and three kids. "My whole family likes to live on the edge, so some of the things I regret that I can't do with them," Montana told USA Today Sports. "Like snowboarding. I fell like 50 times within 30 yards off the top of the ski lift. ... I love basketball. I can't play basketball. I can shoot, but that's about it. I can't run up and down the court. My knee just gives out. "I tried a little bit of skiing, but unfortunately when you get weight on one ski under my left knee, it's just not very strong. After my first back surgery, what kind of compounds things, is my sciatic nerve has been damaged. So the muscles along my sciatic nerve into my left foot have been numb since '86." http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/14...-post-nfl-life |
If you're Peyton manning, multiply this by 10...have fun in retirement
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'Nfl career'
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What's the requirement for having a "not career" even if you were working?
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I'm sure he can get naked with Jennifer and take a treasure bath, and it'll all feel better.
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Non career? Isn't that what Blackledge had?
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My position is the same.
These guys take a beating and their bodies pay the price. True. When I was 15 and acting like a wild man, my dad said "boy make good choices, you're going to pay for this crap someday". Bad ideas, car wrecks, sports and injuries pile up, but you heal fast. Then you turn 35. The thing is, as bad as a person can feel for nfl players for the toll on their body, they've made enough money to afford good health care, surgeries and medications. Now....go ask any 55-60 year old carpenter, iron worker, farmer....how many of them can play basketball or snow board. A lot of careers cause people to accumulate damage and injury...and arthritis and tendinitis and bad backs and knees. Not feeling sorry for NFL millionaires. College football gave them a chance at an education, they had the choice to go get a job instead. |
I'm not sad for Montana or any other super star that got to play a sport for a living and make multi millions.
I've had back surgery do to work and have other ailments that I have to live with but I still go to work and won't be able to retire for another 25 years or so. I got to go through the grind every day and will be an old crippled man when it's all said and done. Most of us have to live with ailments at some sorts it's part of life. If you chose a job "career" that has 300lbs men laying on top of you humping your leg you may just have future body aches. |
Yeah, I can list at least that many injuries at 48 and my last down of football was played in high-school. It's called getting old after a life where you went at it hard. And I don't have several million dollars to rub on my injuries to make them feel better.
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If my kid was athletically gifted I would want to steer them towards baseball or hockey. Maybe even tennis is the are really gifted.
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You think with all the money he has, he'd endorse better pizza...
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But back to your original post, I really don't have much compassion for NFL players because of what you mentioned. It is what it is. Unless they are complete morons they knew what they were getting into. |
Just do drugs and feel good. Gronk will not be able walk when he retires with getting blasted in his knees year after year. The millions these guys have will soothe a lot of pain.
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I feel for him as I have most of the same issues. It's not so much the career he chose that lead to these issues. Just about anybody over the age of 50 is going to experience many of these same health issues.
I envy the adults my age that still have "good " health. So many things I want to do, I just can't because of my health issues. Iowanian hit it on the head, after 35, all down hill! Prior to 35 I was 10' tall and bullet proof, then somebody hit me with a bomb! |
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I am getting tired of former millionaire athletes whining about their health issues from playing football. It's not like others, as we see in this thread, that don't have them. But others have them, and even worse conditions without having played the sport —especially as they get older. I had migraines since age 15 for no reason at all.
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Still love ya, Joe... but I dont care.
Football has provided him with a lifestyle that few will ever enjoy, and enough money to scour the globe for all of the latest treatments for his problems. |
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Yeah lets go Get a job instead that pays waaaaaay less compared to being an NFL player that (if very good) has the potential to make millions or (if not very good but at least can get to the NFL) will make minimum hundreds and thousands of dollars. Even though this person has the skills and talent to reach the NFL level but nahhh **** that let's go work a JOB, a 9-5er where he could get paid less....haha yeah right:rolleyes:.....Point is, The guy who has the potential to make the NFL and millions but decides to pass up on that opportunity to work a 9-5 would have to be imo one of the dumbest mother****ers on the planet. *I understand that any profession, career or job that revolves around any sort of physicality will put a person at great risk of experience some sort of physical ailment like tendonitis, arthritis, bad back, knees, etc. But NFL players have it worse than those carpenters, farmers, iron workers or whomever. It's just you can't put them in the same category as these people. No way. The constant collison and impact these guys go through, the poundage makes their physical ailments way worse. The severity of it is just brutal. At least most carpenters, plumbers and farmers could walk by the time they reach their 60s whereas some retired NFL players struggle with walking and have to deal with brain conditions on top. But yeah I'm with you in that I don't feel sorry for them either. |
I love Joe to death as he's my 2nd favorite former Chief QB. However, Joe like many other former players KNEW there would be consequences to getting pounded time and time again. If they claim "they didn't know", then they're the most ignorant college graduates in history. They knew they had an opportunity to be financially set to live an INCREDIBLE life in exchange for sacrificing possible health issues. I'd do it in half a heartbeat if i had their God given skills.
I on the other hand, wake up well before daylight (4 AM) and bust my ass as a welder 40-50 hours a week. I don't have the luxury of retiring in my twenties or thirties with many years to enjoy life in my prime. At the ripe old age of 44 (sarcasm), I've already sacrificed my left hip, lower back (disk degeneration), and multiple cuts, burns, broken fingers, and sprains. I still have 20+ years till retirement and obviously more problems to come. Do I complain about it, NO.... I chose my occupation and I'm the person who will pay the piper down the road. I don't get to sue my former employer for millions when I finally get to relax. I know there's multiple health risks that come with my occupation including respiratory problems and cancer. I took that risk for a better life for my family. The primary difference between their profession and mine, they get to retire a hell of a lot younger and their family is set for life. Athletes need to quit complaining about something they KNEW was going to happen. |
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My dad looked healthy as shit at 50 but couldnt run 10 feet because of climbing ladders his whole life. Anybody who says they wouldnt be an NFL player because of the damage to your body is a pussy. Id trade 75 years of boring ass normal life for 50 years of 15 year NFL vet 1000 times out of 1000. |
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Some of it is just being reeruned. Andrew Luck running around willingly taking hits instead of sliding is going to come back and haunt him later in life. I'm wondering how much of this has to do with diet? Guys like Tony Gonzalez and Tom Brady take care of their bodies with their diet. I can't help but think that some of these guys like Allen Bailey who eat a ton of red meat to get bigger won't have internal issues later on. |
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It seems to me things that start out fun in life turn out to be really risky and harmful to a person like drinking alcohol, smoking cigarettes, jacking off with shampoo in the shower, playing football for a career these are all fun and dandy but have serious consequences.
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I've done physical work since before high school.
The last decade of work really ramped up as I was assembling/dismantling a big juice rig crane on a daily basis. I was already having to take time off work to let my knee heal up. Too much up & down truck/trailer & cranes. I remember years back my 1st day in the oil patch fresh out of high school. I was a swamper. We were taking the chains & binders off a loaded pipe basket & I went to release a binder. I didn't know you could just pop open a binder so I held on to the handle as I released it. It yarded on my arm so hard that my shoulder neck area hurt really bad afterwards. Nowadays, every night I'm in pain. They want to operate. It keeps me from walking. Well, it's more of a shuffle. As far as my knee, I have no feeling waist down so there's that. But I get what I call zappers in that knee. Unbearable pain for like 3 seconds. What about the office geeks that have no kind of physical activity their entire lives. What are their ailments later in life? It's just a way of life. My grandmother led a simple life yet she had several ailments due to a hard life on a farm in western Kansas. |
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He wasn't really bitching or claiming he didn't know the risks.
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I don't know sounds a little bitchy to me. I'd say even if he didn't play football and had good health at this point of his life he wouldn't have the wife and kids he has today. |
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Joe was complaining about the damage to his body. My comments aren't due specifically to this, but there have been a number of players and former players complaining about the damage to their body due to playing the game. I still like Joe and he was a great Chiefs during his short time here. Bricks. I am serious. These players all have a college education. Yes, they have an opportunity in the NFL..it's an option many many people wish they had. As it is, these men choose to play the game and they need to accept the damage to their bodies as a cost of being able to retire wealthy in their 30s. I talked to 2 ranchers today. 1 broke his neck a couple of years ago, has a lot of damage to his body, and in his late 60s was out in the snow feeding cows. The other had a horse roll over him and had terrible injuries. I've never heard either one complains about how bad farming and ranching have beaten them physically. I have empathy for their injuries and pain....but stop expecting people with similar pain who still work every day in their 40s 50s 60s and 70s to feel terrible for your trick knee. |
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It damaged his brain so bad that he still thinks cargo pants are cool
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I must be a very healthy 52 year old if Joe's issues are normal.
Maybe I should challenge him to a one on one football game. I've got two good knees, no arthritis, a healthy neck, and both of my eyes point in the same direction. What do you think? Could I beat Joe in a one on one? |
I don't quite get the sentiment that these issues he is having are normal or less of a deal because he made some money and is famous from it. Guess working as a professional in an office job isn't so bad since nobody I know is broken physically like that. Especially at not a very old age.
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Bob Dole has all 4 of those things, and never played a down of professional football.
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The back and neck stuff is a major suck, don't wish that on anyone.
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He just needs a pair of Sketchers to help his balky knee and foot inflammation.
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My grandmother's husband was a brick layer for his entire life. He actually just had to retire several years early because it was beginning to be too much for his body with arthritis and all that.
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