by Rupert Patrick » Thu Aug 01, 2019 10:17 am
Reaser wrote:Rupert Patrick wrote:Great player, and he did a lot of good work with his paralysis charity he set up after his son's injury, but I lost a lot of respect for him when he became a spokesperson for the Tobacco industry. I remember watching a segment on 60 Minutes about a number of teenagers dying of mouth cancer after using chewing tobacco and he was claiming there was no scientific evidence their cancers were due to tobacco use.
HBO had a documentary on him earlier this year, "The Many Lives of Nick Buoniconti", that covered a lot of that.
I don't have HBO but only became aware of the documentary yesterday with his death. As luck would have it, this documentary is up on the youtube, so I'll watch it as he was a terrific player and I remember him more from "Inside the NFL" than from his playing career.
"Every time you lose, you die a little bit. You die inside. Not all your organs, maybe just your liver." - George Allen