Eric LeGrand

That's what happened to Nick Bonacconi's son.

It happened to Eric LeGrand.

It happened to Kevin Everett.

It's happened multiple times, and they wanted that potential out of the game.

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But I think personally, and this is just Dan covering sports for almost 20 years, I think that the Eric LeGrand paralyzing tackle in 2010 really threw everybody for a loop.

And I understand that has nothing to do with concussions.

But I think it's like everybody kind of realized it was like a step of like whole shit.

So I know that I told you like what this is a little bit about, but I don't think you're as familiar with this story.

We're talking about Eric Legrand.

So some of our listeners probably have heard of him.

So I'm not going into, I'll tell you what media pieces I watched and went through, but it's more his story is the story.

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So he has a book called Believe, My Faith and the Tackle that Changed My Life.

He also has a young reader's edition called The Victorious Story of Eric Legrand.

But the major things I watch, there's a HBO sports documentary series called State of Play.

"The league has made James Harrison a villain for playing exactly the way he played to earn defensive player of the year.

I think what we're seeing is a knee-jerk reaction to the result of hits, not a thoughtful reaction to the reality of hits." And in tw- in 2024 you said, "This was October 2010 when Rutgers player Eric LeGrand was paralyzed from a hit in a game in New Jersey when the NFL had helmet hits, had to issue, uh, helmet hits, and issued huge fines to James Harrison of the Steelers.

The players were ticked off big time.

Pittsburgh safety Ryan Clark called it a sad day for the sport, that the league was turning Harrison into a villain.