You've probably heard of Jim Plunkett.
Two titles as quarterback of the Raiders and all that stuff.
Well, Yahoo! and Bay Area News Group's Elliott Almond caught up with him recently.
It's not pretty.
After 18 surgeries, costing him both knees and a shoulder (all artificial now), he takes 13 pills, has got Bell's Palsy, and bad headaches.
Plunkett is not a happy man. A lot of it, he believes, is when he played on the Patriots, on some very bad teams.
Once again, though, another name from the past and lore of the National Football League that might get a "Hey, I remember him!!", and then conveniently forgotten when the hits start up in earnest with the preseason in progress....
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