{"id":222,"date":"2013-12-15T07:20:56","date_gmt":"2013-12-15T12:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=222"},"modified":"2013-12-15T11:23:25","modified_gmt":"2013-12-15T16:23:25","slug":"iron-mike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=222","title":{"rendered":"Iron Mike"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mike Webster often played in pain.
\nDied young, with black spots on his brain.
\nIn football, helmets oft collide,
\nconcussing all that’s hid inside.
\nA nose may break, a lip get fatter:
\nwhat becomes of one’s gray matter?
\nYears of tackles, spears and blocks:
\nmuch like butting heads with rocks.
\nA diagnosis, finally,
\nshowed brain disease called CTE.
\nAmnesia, pain, severe depression:
\nsometimes football’s last impression.
\nApproaching fifty, out of luck,
\n“Iron Mike” lived in a truck.
\nAll-star center, Hall of Fame:
\nnow a victim of the game.
\nThis sad Steeler’s tale, we’re sorry,
\nhasn’t changed the post game story.
\nTo deal with damage of this sort
\nmay change the nature of the sport.<\/p>\n

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