REALITY CHECK: When Detroit’s Mike Utley landed...
REALITY CHECK: When Detroit’s Mike Utley landed on his neck in Sunday’s football game, leaving him a paraplegic (C1), former Rams star Jack Youngblood watched from the broadcast booth, shaken. . . . “It brought back the reality that football is not a contact sport; it’s a violent, collision sport,” Youngblood says. . . . No matter how much he loves the game, the former defensive end says, “You have to be aware that it can happen to anyone on any play.”
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