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Sun, Apr 08, 2007, 06:15
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tatum was a maniac. happened in a pre-season game. just one of those stupid things that should never have happened.
in his auto-biography tatum said that the nfl should have outlawed quick slant routes. a critic of the book said that was like john wilkes boothe writing about killing lincoln and stating that presidents shouldn't be allowed to go to theatres. something along those lines.
here's an excerpt from another article:
In 2003, Darryl Stingley told The Boston Globe that he carried no grudge.
“One person deliberately hurt another person,” he said. “I’m not in denial about it. He said he went out there to hurt and maim people. But for me to go on and adapt to a new way of life, I had to forgive him.”
In a twist of fate that year, complications of diabetes led to the amputation of Tatum’s left leg below the knee, and his right leg was threatened by a blocked artery. Stingley felt for the man who had changed his life.
“You can’t, as a human being, feel happy about something like that happening to another human being,” Stingley said. “Maybe the natural reaction is to think he got what was coming to him, but I don’t accept human nature as our real nature. Human nature teaches us to hate. God teaches us to love.”
Similar sentiments appeared in Stingley’s 1983 autobiography, “Happy to Be Alive.” Tatum’s autobiography was titled “They Call Me Assassin.”
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