Following your lead, I’ve scheduled Dr. Amen’s clinic for a brain scan and memory tests on Dec. 11, 2009.

Now I can learn if I sustained any brain damage when Ordell Braase and I collided while attempted a trap block on him during the Rams/Colts game in 1958… I say attempted because when I woke up I found I was blind in one eye and had tunnel vision in the other! George Menefee, the Rams trainer, restored my vision by twisting my helmet around to the front. It seems that from the collision most of the rivets holding the helmet’s suspension webbing in place popped out, collapsing and turning the helmet sideways over my head causing me to look through an ear hole with one eye and the inside of the helmet with the other. To see if I was coherent enough to understand the plays, George gave me the two finger test. I said four, they said close enough and sent me back in the game with a new helmet and a pass play.

See you at SUMMIT II…

John Houser
Independent Retired NFL Player Advocate
1957 – 1963
LA Rams, Dallas Cowboys, St. Louis Cardinals

Maxine Waters was right when she said, “It is time to remove the antitrust exemption from the NFL.”

Regards,
Dave & Heidi Pear