Mike Webster, former Steeler passes away

[mchurchfie]

Mike Webster, the Hall of Fame center who helped the Pittsburgh Steelers win four Super Bowls, died Tuesday at age 50.


Webster died Allegheny General Hospital, hospital spokesman Dan Laurent said. The Pro Football Hall of Fame confirmed that Webster died early Tuesday morning of a heart attack.



http://www.espn.go.com/classic/obit/s/2002/0924/1435977.html

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Here's the downside of football...


He was diagnosed in 1999 as having brain damage caused by repeated head injuries during his career. His doctors said several concussions damaged his frontal lobe, causing cognitive dysfunction. The progressively worsening injury caused him to behave erratically, and Webster briefly was homeless, sleeping in bus stations several times when he could not find somewhere to stay.

If anyone tells you Offensive Linemen aren't worth the millions they get now, just look at cases like this.

[Cntrygal]

:(

[Valerie]

OMG! That's horrible, Big D. :( Those guys really do take one hell of a beating! God bless them all.

[casdhf]

Helmets are alot better now, but I doubt they're perfect

[SABURZFAN]

it's very unfortunate that a man so dominate in the NFL became so vulnerable to real life after football.webby didn't make the money that players do today.he pawned off his SUPER BOWL rings and everything to survive.50 years old is young.i guess THE GUY in the sky needed the greatest center in the NFL for his football team.