This seems fairly typical for the ChiCom Flu. Somebody has serious health issues and ChiCom Flu puts them over the edge. I don’t see why the people who are quarantining everyone can’t see that. Isolate the old and people with other health issues and let everyone else go back to work.
Is this the same Tom Dempsey that kicked the longest (63 yard) field goal in history when he played with the Saints in a game against the hapless Detroit Lions in...? 1973?
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He had advanced Alzheimer’s disease. In New Orleans they count anyone who tests positive as dying from the disease. But tom was very sick before the virus.
Rest in peace.
RIP.
Yes, very sad.
for the next few months, DO NOT VISIT FOLKS IN NURSING HOMES.
Use Skype, zoom, jitsi, etc
Prayers up for his family and loved ones...after 8 years, one doesn’t “battle Alzheimer’s disease and dementia”, one continues to exist despite it and hearts continue to ache and tears to fall...May God receive his eternal soul and comfort those who loved him.
Damn it.
Sorry, Tom, bad break.
Dempsey showed great courage to not let his dream of playing football be limited by his handicap.
His kicking shoe contained a wooden block between his deformed foot and the end of the shoe making it essentially a human croquet mallet. He could swing that leg and make the ball travel long distances but he was also annoying inaccurate as you might be hitting a football with a croquet mallet. That explains why he played for so many teams.
On that fateful day in 1970, his head coach said Dempsey had begged him to try the kick and the coach relented only because he was confused and thought the ball was five yards closer to the goal than it actually was. The coach thought it would be a 58-yard attempt (which would have tied the then-NFL record).
After his success, some NFL teams protested that he had an unfair advantage so the NFL passed new rules on what was allowable in a kicking shoe but Dempsey was grandfathered in.
RIP good sir.
RIP