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More than 20 years since retiring from the NFL, Joe Montana says the wear and tear of the sport continues to take a toll on his now-59-year-old body. 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." |
Montana wasn't a big guy and he took a beating over his career. And yes, Leonard Marshall probably gave him a lifetime of health problems with that one hit.
Perhaps, but their disabilities are from a lifetime of repetitive activity. NFL players gained all this in perhaps 10 years (some more, some less). I don't think they're at all equivalent.
This is very true and one of the reasons why increasing the SSI retirement age is so problematic for the blue collar workforce.
Dick Clark was 83 at the end and had a stroke. Bart Starr is 82. They both outlived the average person so saying that they look bad is not out of the ordinary. The average age expectancy for men is 76 so almost everyone mentioned here is right there or exceeded it by a pretty good margin.
Better than not limping and still bagging groceries.
Everybody gets old regardless of football. Some 60 year olds I know don't look very good, and they never played football.
Heck my older brother is 60. He's actually a tri-athlete. He's come in 3rd place in his age group and 2nd in another race. His health is probably as good as it can be for a 60 year old. However after sitting and watching the Superbowl for about 1/2 an hour on my couch, and watching him slowly and laboriously hoist himself out of his seat, I realized that everybody gets old.
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their age walk just like that.
This is very true and one of the reasons why increasing the SSI retirement age is so problematic for the blue collar workforce.
Which jobs specifically are you referring to and could you provide some hard data please? Thanks.