I played on one leg for seven weeks, ... Knowing I could have two legs next year, it's definitely something I'm looking forward to.
"Tiaina Baul "Junior" Seau Jr." was a linebacker in the National Football League (NFL). Known for his passionate playing style, he was a 10-time All-Pro, 12-time Pro Bowl selection, and named to the NFL 1990s All-Decade Team. He was elected posthumously to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2015.
Originally from San Diego/San Diego, California, Seau played college football at the USC Trojans football/University of Southern California (USC). He was chosen by the San Diego Chargers as the fifth overall pick of the 1990 NFL Draft. Seau started for 13 seasons for the Chargers before being traded to the Miami Dolphins, where he spent three years before four final ones with the New England Patriots.
Seau retired from pro football after the 2009 season. A standout on San Diego's only Super Bowl team, he was later inducted into the Chargers Hall of Fame and the San Diego Chargers retired numbers/team retired his number 55. Seau committed suicide with a gunshot wound to the chest in 2012 at the age of 43. Later studies by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) concluded that Seau suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a type of chronic brain damage that has also been found in other deceased former NFL players.
More Junior Seau on Wikipedia.Whenever you get in that situation in the course of a game, you hope to get one tackle. To make three tackles is a career in the National Football League.
He's mature beyond his years.
It's one game. After one game, you're going to be in first place or last place. We're in first place.
It just cramped up, and I didn't want to risk anything.
Whenever the defense needed to get off the field, we didn't execute. We recognize that, and hopefully it won't happen again.
If you look at the history of the game it has happened to every great player: Joe Montana, Jerry Rice and Marcus Allen. You can go down the list, that there is transition.
When you're putting your kids to bed and their prayer at night is 'God, please let Daddy win, sometime,' you know it's getting bad.
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