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RIP Jim Otto

Golsen82 said:
Did you play for Cardinal Newman? Just seeing if you did and if so if you ever played forest hill or lake worth high schools
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No I played at Charlotte across the state, 00 did - we had three other guys from there too, one was a freshman starter like us. Dang, this came back up, slow week...
 
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Hold My Beer said:
Good salesmen know what they have to offer and to whom to sell it (y)

I grew up mostly in rural/small town North Florida. Might as well have been on another plant than Dade County.

The University of Miami would've been a pipe dream for me and the kids I knew. Junior college was even a reach for many of us
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I did the opposite. I went to western Pa. To try and play fb at Slippery Rock State, until they asked me to leave( not bc of grades), they had no sense of jocularity. Any way, came home to SoFla, enrolled at UM. Everything was cheaper, including resident tuition, in the 70’s.plus I worked FT at Jackson ER made it affordable. Couldn’t do that today. A lot of the FB guys I knew worked jobs during the summers and off season. Different world. Great weed, but different world.
 
Cane30 said:
Seeing his knees years ago was just hard to look at. You knew by looking, this man has dealt with incredibly pain with every movement. It couldn't have been worth it. Him, Hendricks and Foreman were really before my time. As a young kid, I did know of Hendricks and Foreman in the NFL. Imagine having a player that could do what all Hendricks did in this era. A monster.
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Went to classes with Chuck. Great player and great guy.
 
Hold My Beer said:
... now ashamed about grumbling to the wife about my sore back after 2 hours of yardwork 🤦‍♂️

From Wikipedia:

"Otto's body was punished greatly during his NFL career, resulting in nearly 74 operations, including 28 on his knee (nine of them during his playing career) and multiple joint replacements. His joints became riddled with arthritis, and he developed debilitating back and neck problems.[3] In his book, The Pain of Glory" Otto described near-death experiences from medical procedures, including fighting off three life-threatening infections due to complications from his artificial joints. During one six-month stretch, he was without a right knee joint because he had to wait for an infection to heal before another artificial knee could be implanted. Otto eventually had to have his right leg amputated on August 1, 2007.[4] Despite his maladies, Otto said he had no regrets and wouldn't have changed a thing even if given the opportunity to do it over again."


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With all that damage and lived to 86. Wow. RIPto him.
 
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