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Behind the scenes of the Stingley game

By Pat Toomay
Special to Page 2

Thursday, April 5, 2007

Editor's note: Former Cowboys and Raiders defensive end Pat Toomay originally wrote the following piece about being on the field when Darryl Stingley was paralyzed for Page 2 in September of 2002. The exhibition game in which Darryl Stingley was paralyzed was played in Oakland. It was one of those sloppy exhibitions played early in the preseason, when everyone's legs are dead and everyone's minds are numb. It was one of those games in which everything is out of sync, out of kilter, a comedy o ...

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