Sports Legends who played with brain impairments

by **Brent Burns** on Mon Aug 22, 2005 10:13 pm

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??

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by **KnoxVegas** on Tue Aug 23, 2005 3:22 pm

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]

by **CATLAX MAN** on Tue Aug 23, 2005 4:12 pm

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?"

by **Danny Hogan** on Wed Aug 24, 2005 7:06 am

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.

by **KnoxVegas** on Wed Aug 24, 2005 3:15 pm

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.