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<blockquote data-quote="Thirteen Below" data-source="post: 1073263" data-attributes="member: 18006"><p>Ken Dyer, of the Bengals, and he never did fully recover. Over a period of years, he did get back most of his functionality, and later coached high school football, but that hit was the last play of his career. Brockington felt terrible about it, but when you tackled a player like Brock at the knees, yer gonna take a hit. In fact, I remember at the time reading that the doctor who first read his X-rays was shocked he was alive. He told Dyer something like, "you should have died out there."</p><p></p><p>As for Ivery... he was an incredible talent, but what a hard luck story... in his first NFL game, the 79 season opener in Chicago, he tore his left ACL. He fought back and had a decent 1980 season, but then in the 81 season opener (again at Soldier Field), he tore the MCL in the same knee.</p><p></p><p>He struggled with alcohol and drug addiction his entire career after that, and in 1983 he failed a drug test. Bart Starr called him into his office for a "this has to stop" meeting, and Bart started by asking, "Eddie, are you OK?" Ivery tried to ******** his way through it. But he said later that as he looked across the desk at Starr, he saw that he literally had tears in his eyes because he knew Ivery was lying to him and playing him. Ivery felt something wash over him, and started crying too, and then broke down and said "Coach Starr - please help me."</p><p></p><p>And so he did. Starr personally worked with Eddie to guide him through a long rehab, including more than one stay at a treatment facility. Ivery often said in later years, "I owe Bart Starr my life".</p><p></p><p>He was always deeply moved by how supportive, loyal, and compassionate Starr and the entire organization were during this period. Ivery was so greatly and deeply moved by that that there were times when that was the only thing that got him through it - that he couldn't let the people who helped him down. </p><p></p><p>Had it not been for those 2 knee injuries, Ivery would probably be remembered today as one of the all-time greats - IMO almost certainly a Hall of Famer, assuming his career followed a reasonable arc for RBs of his caliber.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Thirteen Below, post: 1073263, member: 18006"] Ken Dyer, of the Bengals, and he never did fully recover. Over a period of years, he did get back most of his functionality, and later coached high school football, but that hit was the last play of his career. Brockington felt terrible about it, but when you tackled a player like Brock at the knees, yer gonna take a hit. In fact, I remember at the time reading that the doctor who first read his X-rays was shocked he was alive. He told Dyer something like, "you should have died out there." As for Ivery... he was an incredible talent, but what a hard luck story... in his first NFL game, the 79 season opener in Chicago, he tore his left ACL. He fought back and had a decent 1980 season, but then in the 81 season opener (again at Soldier Field), he tore the MCL in the same knee. He struggled with alcohol and drug addiction his entire career after that, and in 1983 he failed a drug test. Bart Starr called him into his office for a "this has to stop" meeting, and Bart started by asking, "Eddie, are you OK?" Ivery tried to ******** his way through it. But he said later that as he looked across the desk at Starr, he saw that he literally had tears in his eyes because he knew Ivery was lying to him and playing him. Ivery felt something wash over him, and started crying too, and then broke down and said "Coach Starr - please help me." And so he did. Starr personally worked with Eddie to guide him through a long rehab, including more than one stay at a treatment facility. Ivery often said in later years, "I owe Bart Starr my life". He was always deeply moved by how supportive, loyal, and compassionate Starr and the entire organization were during this period. Ivery was so greatly and deeply moved by that that there were times when that was the only thing that got him through it - that he couldn't let the people who helped him down. Had it not been for those 2 knee injuries, Ivery would probably be remembered today as one of the all-time greats - IMO almost certainly a Hall of Famer, assuming his career followed a reasonable arc for RBs of his caliber. [/QUOTE]
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