Walter Payton Used Drugs/Suicidal

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Originally Posted by SmootSmack

As I said, I don't want to derail this thread into talk about an 18 game season. I mean WP was in the league when they expanded from 14 games to 16 games, but I don't think that caused his problems.

What I think I'll remember as much as anything is that he ended his career against the Redskins. I think it was a 4th down run and he didn't get the first and then next thing you know that's it. His career is done

Then why did you bring it up?

IMO I don't care if it is a 16 or 18 game season, they are adults they can choice not to play football.

But to say 18 game regular season sans to pre-season games is the same as a 16 game season is false advertisement.

Also IMO this topic is very relative to WP as obviously the abuse his body took in football had a profound effect on his life.