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Originally Posted by GMScud
Wow. That's a horrific list of injuries. Did you play pro ball? If so, for who?
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No pro ball. The injury to C1 in senior year of college put me out of football for good, except for coaching briefly. I was invited to the Dallas camp, but didn't report. No chance of passing a physical. Dallas was just starting up in those days and was handing out a lot of feelers and invites, even to players reportedly injured. I remember feeling at the time that Dallas had an up and coming front office and that the Cowboys would soon be a power. They were much more thorough in regard to scouting than other teams at that time.
As a matter of history: the Redskins soon followed Dallas' lead and ran their first try-out camp, which resulted in their acquiring Herb Mul Key. I think I'm right about this, though I've never seen it in print. I'm going purely by memory here and how it seemed to me at the time.