Injured Romanowski might call it quits

[The_Philster]

Raiders linebacker Bill Romanowski is openly contemplating retirement after sustaining three concussions in the past four weeks, and sources within the organization don't expect the 16-year NFL veteran to play another game.

"Based on what we've seen, I'd be surprised if he ever plays again,'' a source close to the team said. "This is the cumulative effect of a number of small concussions over a short period of time. He's taking all of that into account."...
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[Ebenezer]

Goodbye and good riddence...a drug using wife abuser has no place in the NFL...and we won'tt even talk about the stuff he did on the field.

[stuckincincy]

Rats. There goes my spittoon business... :D

[The Spaz]

Get the F-out of the NFL you loser!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[The_Philster]

Bill Romanowski can find normalcy in the weight room -- his temple for honing his sculpted body -- and in the gym, where he's been known to pummel a treadmill into submission. Still, the NFL's self-described fittest man finally has his limits.

Dizziness. Balance problems. Excruciating headaches.

"(Too much) exercise -- it will get the heart rate going and I guess some things happen. That's very normal. That's what the trainer told me,'' said the Raiders' linebacker, a guy so fanatical about his conditioning he has taken a physical trainer with him on family vacations to Hawaii in the offseason....

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