stillers4me
08-09-2010, 09:04 AM
Steelers safety Ryan Clark knows the high risk he takes every time he makes one of his ferocious hits and likes NFL's heightened interest in the subject
Sunday, August 08, 2010
By Ron Cook (http://www.post-gazette.com/search/archive.asp?cCat=87), Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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Rob Carr/Associated Press
Ravens running back Willis McGahee fumbles as he is hit by the Steelers' Ryan Clark in the fourth quarter of the 2008 AFC championship Jan. 18, 2009 at Heinz Field. McGahee was injured on the play and left the game.
In Maui, Hawaii, maybe as close to paradise as there is on Earth, the topics of discussion at the March meeting of the NFL Players Association team representatives were concussions, brain disease, early dementia and premature death.
All things considered, Steelers safety Ryan Clark would have preferred to be on the beach.
Certainly, Clark's wife, Yonka, would rather have listened to the soothing sounds of the ocean lapping against the shoreline than to the gruesome presentation linking football to brain injuries.
"It was definitely scary for her," Clark said last week at Steelers training camp. He's one of the team's player reps and took his wife on the trip......................
Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10220/1078524-87.stm#ixzz0w7KyJbSV
Sunday, August 08, 2010
By Ron Cook (http://www.post-gazette.com/search/archive.asp?cCat=87), Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/images/201008/clark1_330.jpg
Rob Carr/Associated Press
Ravens running back Willis McGahee fumbles as he is hit by the Steelers' Ryan Clark in the fourth quarter of the 2008 AFC championship Jan. 18, 2009 at Heinz Field. McGahee was injured on the play and left the game.
In Maui, Hawaii, maybe as close to paradise as there is on Earth, the topics of discussion at the March meeting of the NFL Players Association team representatives were concussions, brain disease, early dementia and premature death.
All things considered, Steelers safety Ryan Clark would have preferred to be on the beach.
Certainly, Clark's wife, Yonka, would rather have listened to the soothing sounds of the ocean lapping against the shoreline than to the gruesome presentation linking football to brain injuries.
"It was definitely scary for her," Clark said last week at Steelers training camp. He's one of the team's player reps and took his wife on the trip......................
Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10220/1078524-87.stm#ixzz0w7KyJbSV