axie said:
To whom did this happen, and when?
I'd actually forgotten about this until some early episode of 'Jacked up' on ESPN reminded me of it this past football season......
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[font=times new roman, times, serif]Bledsoe comes home[/font] [/font]
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[font=times new roman, times, serif]By Greg Bishop
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[font=arial, helvetica, sans-serif]RICK STEWART / GETTY IMAGES[/font][font=verdana, arial, sans-serif]Drew Bledsoe (facing) has been blamed for the Buffalo Bills' struggles over the past two seasons.[/font] Adam Bledsoe found his brother hunched over the training table, face gnarled into a grimace, body curled into the fetal position. [/font]
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Something obviously wasn't right. [/font]
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So they carted Drew Bledsoe into an ambulance equipped with the one painkiller (morphine) that he's allergic to, and when that ambulance pulled into Boston city limits, Bledsoe started blacking out. [/font]
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A vicious, but legal, hit from Jets linebacker Mo Lewis on Sept. 23, 2001, sheared the artery behind Bledsoe's ribs. He bled four liters of blood into his chest cavity, filling it until his lungs failed to inflate. [/font]
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Doctors cut a hole in his side just below the armpit, removing the blood and pumping it back into his body intravenously. They compared the injury with those suffered in major car accidents. [/font]
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"I thought he was dying," Adam Bledsoe said this week. [/font]
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Drew Bledsoe returned to New England that season but never regained his job as starting quarterback, watching from the sideline as the Patriots won the Super Bowl with Tom Brady as their starter. [/font]
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Bledsoe throws against the New York Jets on Nov. 7 at Ralph Wilson Stadium in Orchard Park, N.Y.[/font]
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That day, that hit, that trip to the hospital and the series of events that happened afterward altered the course of Bledsoe's football life, taking him to Buffalo and losing and the greatest struggle of his career. [/font]
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But that story still matters because it speaks to his resiliency, his perseverance, his very core. That story tells you everything you need to know about Drew Bledsoe ? the man and the football player ? and how he has endured the seasons since, the fans calling for his backup, even the radio station that tried to vote him out of town. [/font]
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The Walla Walla native and Washington State great returns home Sunday when the Seahawks host the Bills. Bledsoe will play a football game in the state where he grew up for the first time in more than a decade. [/font]
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"This is a chance to get him home before his career ends," said Mike Levenseller, the offensive coordinator at Washington State. "There are moments in time that you better embrace. This is one of those moments. This is one of those times you need to make a big deal out of it. He won't. But everybody else should." [/font]
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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/seahawks/2002101087_hawks26.html