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NFL POINDEXTER: TEARS FOR FEARS

By Alan Grant

Friday, September 19, 2008

Vince Young speaking to a team therapist? Big, strong, virile NFL players on anti-depressants? Tears? It doesn't surprise me. At different points in my career, my former teammates exhibited joy, anger, pain, depression—the accoutrement of real life. But I never expected these things, all these human things, would ever be openly discussed as unusual. The talk around Young's issues brought me back to Terry Bradshaw, crying … Crying! … on the air. It was September of '99, a ...

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