The record-setting quarterback led the Volunteers to the 1971 Class 4A state title before starring at Rice and with the Minnesota Vikings.
One of San Antonio's greatest former football players reacted with sadness in 2013 to news that Dallas Cowboys Hall of Fame running back Tony Dorsett had been diagnosed with a degenerative condition linked to depression and dementia. “My heart goes out to him,” Tommy Kramer told the San Antonio Express-News . “I wouldn't wish what he's going through upon anybody.” He now finds himself in a similar fight.
Your free all-access pass to the best high school sports coverage in San Antonio Kramer, who led Lee to the 1971 Class 4A state title as a record-setting quarterback before becoming a two-time All-American at Rice and starring with the Minnesota Vikings during a 14-season NFL career, announced Wednesday in a social media post he was diagnosed just over a year ago at the Cleveland Clinic.
Retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre says he has Parkinson's disease In 2020, the family of Whittier, who had gained fame a half century ago as the Longhorns' first Black football letterman after starring at Highlands, filed a lawsuit accusing the NCAA of negligence and wrongful death stemming from Whittier’s death from football-related head trauma.
As NFL faces scrutiny, don’t forget Whittier and Nobis But he said those tragic cases had not resulted in him fearing for his future or regretting the years he spent playing football. “You don't really worry about it because you did what you always wanted to do,” said Kramer, then 58. “Those are the consequences that go with it. I would definitely do it again.” Kramer said he suffered numerous concussions as a player and that his most severe head injury occurred Oct.
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