Posted on 06/04/2018 4:30:10 PM PDT by NohSpinZone
she is still at home but the situation is getting dicey...soon she'll need to be in a facility....
now that Trump has okayed "right to try" drugs, perhaps someone will come up with a breakthru drug..
I watched the effects of ALS as it ravaged the life of one of my coworkers. She went from the picture of health to passing away in four years.
I will never forget “the catch “. RIP Mr. Clark.
So young
May the angels sing him home
Prayers for his family
His death comes as the sport itself dies a long miserable death.
Just looking at the pics of Joe Montana and Clark, man, times changed.
I was such a fan for so many years...
Those were the days. Back when the whole idea of California still worked, too.
Most know Vin Scully for his baseball announcing career, but he made one of the great all-time football calls on “The Catch”.
That was Everson Walls he beat on The Catch.
One of the true great stories from the NFL lore was Walls donating his kidney to his teammate, Ron Springs.
Not sure what you are getting at but having played for
the same franchise has absolutely nothing to do with
a few former players contracting ALS. Only a kook would
believe otherwise. Hope you are not a kook. The only
possible connection might be the medical staff and I
am pretty sure that turned over several times.
The medical staff and how they treated players was the thing they would not go public with, to this day.
But I’m not sure it has anything to do with concussions or closely related head injuries. A series of 1987 newspaper articles alleged that application of the heat-dried biosolids fertilizer, Milorganite, may have caused people to contract amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The newspapers reported two ALS cases among 155 deaths of Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District (MMSD) workers at the plant where Milorganite is produced, as well as 25 ALS patients in and around Milwaukee who claimed to have been in contact with Milorganite.
Upon reading the newspaper articles, Dr. Benjamin Brooks, aneurologist and director of ALS research at the University of Wisconsin- Madison, gathered state ALS mortality information which he claimed linked the disease to Milorganite.
Bob Waters, before his death, Searching for an explanation to this unusual coincidence of so many contracting the illness, located a former member of the 49ers maintenance crew who remembered using a particular fertilizer, Milorganite, on the team’s practice field.
If the link of the fertilizer is contributory to the contraction of the illness, it may lead to the team being partially, if not a lot, responsible for the exposure thus the contracting of ALS shortening their lives. And the numbers do start to match up with most of the findings of other contractions.
rwood
Let me put it this way. You may not be a fan of the man
or the team but some of us are or, at least, respect him
as an athlete and a man. There is a time and a place for
such a discussion but it is not now.
Then if you respect him as an athlete and a man, why are you not up in arms for the 49ers organization to assist his family with financial repair or donations to his family’s choice. They could be the cause of the death as even though I mentioned the fertilizer, Clark, himself in 2016, said he doesn’t know if playing football caused the disease but he suspects that is the case.
ALS has in recent years been linked to chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, the degenerative brain disease that studies have linked to athletes and others with a history of repetitive brain trauma, including concussions. And during the years they played, the emphasis on concussion syndrome wasn’t in the loop. So medical treatment by the team doctors could easily have been faulty because it was not in the public eye.
I didn’t know Clark personally. I do know he kept his mouth shut and played an excellent wide out and slot. I did know a few of the earlier players like Y.A. tittle and Bob St. Claire when I was young. I also met Joe Perry, Leo Nomellini, and Hugh McElhenny. I go back to the mid 50’s with the 49ers and remained a fan until Ed DeBartolo screwed Joe Montana when he wanted to compete with Young for the starting job after his major injury also screwing George Seifert in the process. I became a fan because I really liked Y. A. Title. They competed together on the same team when they were at LSU after my dad got back from the war and briefly took classes there. They became friends, not close though. But I met many of the team when they would come through on a basketball exhibition in my home town playing the high school teachers and my dad would say hello to Mr. Title. Good man.
But to get back to the point, it is a reasonably good possibility that the niners may have been contributory to the illnesses either through the use of the fertilizer or the lack of care for brain trauma which they had to know was serious. But we don’t know as they are circling up the wagons and not saying anything. If they had come right out and admitted they may have been part of the problem, then I’d give them more room in my mind. But they appear to be running for cover. And that is truly disingenuous and needs investigating. I’m not saying anything about Clark other than he is another number to add to the list. Just that the team needs to be investigated as they appear with their actions to be not above board.
rwood
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