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To: S. maltophilia who wrote (189863)	4/12/2010 12:44:07 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 362338

Jerry Kramer? (borrowing heavily from Jerry Kramer's "Farewell to Football") 1950: Caught shirt in turning screw of lathe at high school. Ripped out a fist-size chunk of right side. Stitches. 1951: Accidently shot right arm and side with double-barrel 10-gauge shotgun. Wound required four operations, skin grafts, and plastic surgery over the next few years. 1953: Ran over sharp board while chasing calf in pasture. Seven-and-one-half inch long, three-quarter inch thick splinter penetrated groin and lodged in large muscle near spine. 1954: Graduated from Sandpoint High School. Began studying at the University of Idaho. 1955: Operation for suspected chipped vertebra in neck results in "zipper" scar. 1958: Drafted by the Green Bay Packers. 1959: Vince Lombardi becomes head coach of Packers. 1960: Brain concussion and detached retina suffered in game against Los Angeles Rams (surgically corrected after the season). 1961: Two bones in left ankle separated and ligaments severely strained during game against the Minnesota Vikings. Packers win NFL Championship 1962: Kicks 3 field goals in NFL Championship game against the New York Giants. Packers win NFL Championship. 1964: Operation for tumor on liver. Emergency colostomy. Six-and-one-half hour surgery in lower left abdominal area during which four slivers of wood (that had been lodged for eleven years) were removed. Missed the entire season. members.cox.net == I guess bad-ass doesn't mean dirty, but Conrad Dobler.. "I always tried to play it fair," he says. Conrad Dobler, once dubbed the NFL's dirtiest player, is approaching his 57th birthday in a body broken down from years of abuse on the field.He knows perfectly well how any mention of fairness or honor might sound, coming from someone who made his reputation as the maestro of a nasty little karate kick technique called the leg whip, coming from a man best known for using his helmet, his feet, his knees, his fingers, a plaster cast, and — perhaps most famously — his teeth as lethal weapons. This is, after all, the same Conrad Dobler whom Sports Illustrated anointed on its cover in 1977 as "Pro Football's Dirtiest Player," the same Conrad Dobler who titled his own autobiography "They Call Me Dirty." This is the Conrad Dobler who gouged eyes and twisted facemasks and worked hard to irritate everyone from Pete Rozelle to John Madden to a mild-mannered Mormon defensive lineman named Merlin Olsen. sports.espn.go.com