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Scratch that. Just finished the article. There's nothing admirable about the guy. He was a good football player that beat his wife and played the system, totally self-centered. As I was reading the story, I was expecting him to get shot during a fight or something.

Then, he just happened to hit a guy wrong during the game and got paralyzed. He could have been a choir boy or a demon, both play football. Nothing personal in it, just the cruel geometry and physics of the game. No divine retribution or ironic end. Just a life lived until a sudden stop that seemed almost a non-sequitor to everything up until that point.

If I had been him and had my preferences, I would have rather died on the field. 18 months of being a quadriplegic doesn't sound like much of a life. Maybe it gave him time to seek salvation. God understands it. I don't.