R.I.P. Darryl Stingley

[Vinatieri for Prez]

He's moved onto a better place. Just a shame the whole incident for the guy.

Does anyone else find it utterly amazing that so many years after Stingley was rendered a quadriplegic by Jack Tatum's hit that Tatum has had serious health problems over the past couple of years, in which he lost one leg to diabetes and the other leg to an arterial blockage.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/football/bears/chi-070405stingley,1,4992552.story?coll=chi-news-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true

[molson]

Does anyone else find it utterly amazing that so many years after Stingley was rendered a quadriplegic by Jack Tatum's hit that Tatum has had serious health problems over the past couple of years, in which he lost one leg to diabetes and the other leg to an arterial blockage.



Nah, diabetes is incredbily common in African-American males around that age.

I don't did Tatum did anything wrong during the hit itself (from what I've read - I've actually never seen it), and his attitude since then I think can be explained via repressed guilt. I'm sure it isn't easy to live with something like that (easier than living with paralylsis, but not easy)

Just amazing that Stingley lived more than half his life in that state, from a mere football play.

[Draft Dodger]

talk about a freakish coincidence - last night, out of the blue, I was thinking about Stingley. I have no idea why.

[beargrowlz]

He's moved onto a better place.

Amen brother.

[LionsFan10]

Nah, diabetes is incredbily common in African-American males around that age.

I don't did Tatum did anything wrong during the hit itself (from what I've read - I've actually never seen it), and his attitude since then I think can be explained via repressed guilt. I'm sure it isn't easy to live with something like that (easier than living with paralylsis, but not easy)

Just amazing that Stingley lived more than half his life in that state, from a mere football play.

The hit itself was quite vicious. Of the helmet to helmet type variety, which I can see why is illegal these days in football, although at the time, Tatum's hit was perfectly legal.

[bhlloy]

Tatum can rot in hell. Repressed guilt or not, legal at the time or not, it's not hard to say sorry to a guy whose entire life you have ruined - even if you didn't mean it. And then the so called "apology" he set up was a stunt to promote a book in which he boasted about how much of a hardass he was and how many people he tried to hurt.