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2014年12月13日A Brain Battered
High school football left an indelible mark on George Visger. At 51, he’s a man whose high school football experience decades ago remains vivid and special even though the game itself has left a cheap nfl jerseys dark cloud over his life.
Visger, who played college ball at the University of Colorado and then joined the San Francisco 49ers, has a brain battered by football. The years of hard hits have left him with severe memory loss and other brain problems, and his doctors warn they could get more serious quickly.
On a recent warm, autumn Friday in central California, Visger slid into his 2003 silver Dodge pickup truck and set out from his home in Grass Valley to Stagg High School in Stockton two hours south.
It also takes Visger 35 years back to when he was a star offensive and defensive lineman for the Stagg Delta Kings.
"I get goose bumps going down there every year," Visger says.
Goose bumps, tears, laughter. It all pours out when he makes the journey back be it in his truck or in his mind. Here’s a guy who played in a college bowl game, who was a member of a Super Bowl winning NFL team.
But cheap nfl jerseys it’s the stories about Stagg High that Visger loves to tell with crystal clarity and passion.
Especially from his senior year 1975 when the Delta Kings were ranked third in all of California and No. 1 one in each other’s lives.
"Probably fully a third of our team was from single parent families and had gone through all types of adversity," Visger says. "It was an incredible group we had. We just turned to one another."
Never more so than when the father of running back Fred Douglas was murdered the week of one of the biggest games of that 1975 season. The entire team went to the funeral on a Thursday; no one expected Douglas to play on Friday, right up until the moment he appeared minutes before kickoff.
"I’ll never forget," Visger says. "[Douglas] comes in the locker room, and he’s got his bag of gear over his shoulder and all he said was, ’I just thought you boys might need me tonight. I couldn’t let you down.’ "
Visger eyes tear up as he talks about the memory.
"I’m telling you, it’s hard for me to even talk about it 35 years later without getting emotional. There wasn’t a dry eye in the locker room," he says.
The Wholesale Stitched Jerseys Rings
Visger’s eyes are dry by the time he arrives at the Stagg High practice field not that it matters really, because the players he meets on the sidelines aren’t looking in his eyes.
They’re ogling the rings on his fingers.
On Visger’s left hand, there’s one from the 1977 Orange Bowl when he was a starting defensive tackle for the University of Colorado.
On his right, a diamond encrusted 1982 Super Bowl ring from when he was a member of the San Francisco 49ers.
Visger wears them for occasions like this. He calls them his "business development" rings. He’s been asked to speak to the team after practice, and the jewels are the hook: the way to get a bunch of teenagers to listen to a 51 year old man talk about goal setting and doing well in the classroom.
His speech is laced with vivid memories of decades old high school glory. The cruel irony here, however, is when you spend time talking to George Visger, life often is anything but vivid.
Every so often when talking with Visger, the conversation comes to a halt, and he says something like this:
"Today when I was at the, ummmm, I think it was today. It was today right? When I was at the, when I was at the TV interview. I’m trying to remember. It was today, right?"
Visger laughs he wholesale jerseys just can’t get back his train of thought.
Laughter is one of his coping mechanisms for the memory lapses. His short term memory has been dwindling rapidly.
Small, yellow notebooks serve as another coping mechanism. They’re a lifeline, really. Visger takes them everywhere.
He pulls one out of the back pocket of his Levi’s and starts to leaf through the pages. They’re his memory a daily log of conversations that otherwise would be lost.
The Toll From A Sport He Loves
Visger’s first concussion was at 13. His coach at the time had the players do a drill called "bull in the ring." Two players would line up on opposite sides of a circle. There was a ball in the middle. When the coach blew the whistle, the first guy to the ball won.
High school football left an indelible mark on George Visger. At 51, he’s a man whose high school football experience decades ago remains vivid and special even though the game itself has left a cheap nfl jerseys dark cloud over his life.
Visger, who played college ball at the University of Colorado and then joined the San Francisco 49ers, has a brain battered by football. The years of hard hits have left him with severe memory loss and other brain problems, and his doctors warn they could get more serious quickly.
On a recent warm, autumn Friday in central California, Visger slid into his 2003 silver Dodge pickup truck and set out from his home in Grass Valley to Stagg High School in Stockton two hours south.
It also takes Visger 35 years back to when he was a star offensive and defensive lineman for the Stagg Delta Kings.
"I get goose bumps going down there every year," Visger says.
Goose bumps, tears, laughter. It all pours out when he makes the journey back be it in his truck or in his mind. Here’s a guy who played in a college bowl game, who was a member of a Super Bowl winning NFL team.
But cheap nfl jerseys it’s the stories about Stagg High that Visger loves to tell with crystal clarity and passion.
Especially from his senior year 1975 when the Delta Kings were ranked third in all of California and No. 1 one in each other’s lives.
"Probably fully a third of our team was from single parent families and had gone through all types of adversity," Visger says. "It was an incredible group we had. We just turned to one another."
Never more so than when the father of running back Fred Douglas was murdered the week of one of the biggest games of that 1975 season. The entire team went to the funeral on a Thursday; no one expected Douglas to play on Friday, right up until the moment he appeared minutes before kickoff.
"I’ll never forget," Visger says. "[Douglas] comes in the locker room, and he’s got his bag of gear over his shoulder and all he said was, ’I just thought you boys might need me tonight. I couldn’t let you down.’ "
Visger eyes tear up as he talks about the memory.
"I’m telling you, it’s hard for me to even talk about it 35 years later without getting emotional. There wasn’t a dry eye in the locker room," he says.
The Wholesale Stitched Jerseys Rings
Visger’s eyes are dry by the time he arrives at the Stagg High practice field not that it matters really, because the players he meets on the sidelines aren’t looking in his eyes.
They’re ogling the rings on his fingers.
On Visger’s left hand, there’s one from the 1977 Orange Bowl when he was a starting defensive tackle for the University of Colorado.
On his right, a diamond encrusted 1982 Super Bowl ring from when he was a member of the San Francisco 49ers.
Visger wears them for occasions like this. He calls them his "business development" rings. He’s been asked to speak to the team after practice, and the jewels are the hook: the way to get a bunch of teenagers to listen to a 51 year old man talk about goal setting and doing well in the classroom.
His speech is laced with vivid memories of decades old high school glory. The cruel irony here, however, is when you spend time talking to George Visger, life often is anything but vivid.
Every so often when talking with Visger, the conversation comes to a halt, and he says something like this:
"Today when I was at the, ummmm, I think it was today. It was today right? When I was at the, when I was at the TV interview. I’m trying to remember. It was today, right?"
Visger laughs he wholesale jerseys just can’t get back his train of thought.
Laughter is one of his coping mechanisms for the memory lapses. His short term memory has been dwindling rapidly.
Small, yellow notebooks serve as another coping mechanism. They’re a lifeline, really. Visger takes them everywhere.
He pulls one out of the back pocket of his Levi’s and starts to leaf through the pages. They’re his memory a daily log of conversations that otherwise would be lost.
The Toll From A Sport He Loves
Visger’s first concussion was at 13. His coach at the time had the players do a drill called "bull in the ring." Two players would line up on opposite sides of a circle. There was a ball in the middle. When the coach blew the whistle, the first guy to the ball won.
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