One of the most horrific injuries in the NFL was the shattering of Joe Theisman's leg in a Monday night football game 20 years ago. It is one of the most shocking videos of all time. He is now a spokesman for triple A, abdoniminal aortic disorder a deadly and silent killer. One million people in the U.S. have this and most don't know about it.
In a recent interview he speaks of his injury. The interviewer asked, "Can you go without thinking about that night." Answer, "No!. Every morning I wake up I am reminded. I am shorter on one side, I am 6 feet tall on one leg and 5 foot 11 and change on the othe so that injury changed my life, it changed it for the better.
I had become a professional athlete who was so wrapped up in himself that I had no room for anybody and bang I get slapped down to earth and I found out that the world that we live in as professional atheletes is as fantasy as you will ever find.
The real world is where real people worry about one another and care about one another. And I got away from that. It was a real blessing more than a tragedy."
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