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DomCasual
12-12-2006, 04:40 PM
I thought this was a pretty cool story. I just want you to know that if any of you ever needed a kidney, I would volunteer Bob's in a hearbeat.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2694968

Shawn Springs' father to receive new kidney

Former NFL cornerback Everson Walls is giving an old friend and teammate a gift for life.

The Washington Post reported that Walls has agreed to donate a kidney to former Dallas Cowboys teammate Ron Springs and that surgery is imminent.

Springs' son Shawn Springs, a cornerback with the Washington Redskins, told the newspaper that surgery could take place "any day now."

According to the newspaper, Ron Springs, 50, has diabetes and has been undergoing dialysis to get ready for surgery.

Shawn Springs offered to end his career and donate a kidney, but his father would not allow any of his children to be tested, the newspaper reported.

"Everson Walls is my dad's best friend and somebody who taught me a lot about being a cornerback in the NFL," the younger Springs told the Post.

Walls and Springs were Cowboys teammates between 1981 and 1984.
Billy Clyde Puckett
12-12-2006, 05:03 PM
Great story. From some of the stuff you read you would think every ex NFL player is a degenerate druggy

BTW - you can keep Bob's kidney. I would rather have one from one of those unsuspecting travelers who wake up in the hotel bathtub full of ice.
DomCasual
12-12-2006, 05:12 PM
Great story. From some of the stuff you read you would think every ex NFL player is a degenerate druggy

BTW - you can keep Bob's kidney. I would rather have one from one of those unsuspecting travelers who wake up in the hotel bathtub full of ice.

That totally happened to my cousin! They took his gall bladder, too - who knew there was a market for gall bladders, man!

I'd give crazyhorse's liver to Mock.
Smiling Assassin27
12-12-2006, 05:23 PM
maybe walls can give ron's son his testicles while he's at it. walls had half the ability and twice the career.
epicSocialism4tw
12-12-2006, 05:27 PM
Good job, Everson. Way to step up.
Goobzilla
12-12-2006, 06:04 PM
Nate Newton is chipping in 150 lbs of "medical" marijuana.
epicSocialism4tw
12-12-2006, 06:06 PM
Nate Newton is chipping in 150 lbs of "medical" marijuana.

Mike Irvin stepping up to contribute a few prostitutes and some grade-A cocaine.
texpat
12-12-2006, 06:32 PM
I coached against Everson in a local rec basketball league near Dallas a few years ago. He has a son same age as my son (freshman in college now). Very nice man and did a great job with his players.
loborugger
12-12-2006, 08:00 PM
You dont want Bob's kidneys. They have been turned into a squishy pulp by years of being bullied. Same for his brain - too many nuggies. We wont even mention all the wedgies that twerp received and what they did to him.