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This is actually an offshoot from the "Whatever Happened to..." thread when KnoxVegas made a good point of rattling off names such as Mark "The Bird" Fridych. Just for the fun of it, I went on a search to find out more about The Bird and I found this interesting URL that is quite interesting to read about "Sports Legends who played with brain impairments", and Mark Fridych is one of them. I bet on the farm that some names would evoke memories:

http://www.neurohealth.org/education_sportsfigures.htm

Remember Bill "Spaceman" Lee??

The Spaceman was going to be in my next set of "Whatever Happened Tos." I was a huge Expos fan (No joke!) growing up and he pitched for a period of time in the land of the Big O.

Some say that Jerry Lucas had an exceptional mind:
http://espn.go.com/classic/biography/s/Lucas_Jerry.html[/url]

Brain impairment??? Mike Tyson has to be on the top of that list. How many times have you thought, "What the hell was he thinking?"

i have heard that mike tyson competed in the special olympics when he was younger. not for boxing (thank god) but for track events or something.

3. Lyle Aftado. Raiders' end who ripped the helmet off New York Jets' Chris Ward in a 1982 playoff game, presumably in a steroid rage, caused by hon-nonal imbalance in the brain. Alzado died of brain cancer, possibly due to steroids, years later.


Ah, this I imagine, is in reference to Lyle ALZADO.