Bart Starr victim of hazing, Bart Starr was the victim of a barbarous hazing ritual while at Alabama, which was the accurate could cause of his career-long aback issues, his wife has revealed.
Cherry Starr, Bart Starr's wife, told AL.com that her bedmate was baffled during an admission for Crimson Tide varsity letterman as a junior. Starr abounding Alabama from 1952-1956.
"He was ailing at one point in traction," Cherry Starr told the website. "That was in the canicule if they were accomplished into the A-Club, and they had astringent beatings and paddling. From all the associates of the A-Club, they lined up with a big paddle with holes accomplished in it, and it in fact afflicted his back."
Cherry Starr said aback issues bedeviled Starr throughout his Hall of Fame years with the Packers, a 16-year career that saw him win two Super Bowl MVPs and 5 NFL titles. She said he dealt with aback spasms consistently and had common epidural injections.
"But his aback was never appropriate afterwards that," she added. "It was horrible. It was not a football injury. It was an abrasion abiding from hazing. His accomplished aback all the way up to his rib cage looked like a section of raw meat. The able-bodied went all the way up his back. It was red and atramentous and abominable looking. It was so brutal."
That's not the adventure that a lot of humans know, though. The accepted adventure has continued been that Starr, now 82, afflicted his aback in a punting blow afore his inferior season. According to Cherry, Starr never mentioned the assault because it had never been reported.
The adventure was verified, though, by Nick Germanos, a bound end who played with Starr at Alabama and went on to serve in the Marine Corps.
"It was hell," Germanos told AL.com. "Lord accept mercy, it was a asperous initiation."
Starr almost played afterwards the incident, seeing desultory time as a inferior for a aggregation that went 4-5-2, again arena sparingly as a chief for a Crimson Tide aggregation that went 0-10.
He was still drafted by the Packers in the 17th annular of the 1957 NFL draft, and he went on to action through the abrasion throughout his NFL career, Cherry Starr said.
"He was in so abundant affliction constantly," Cherry Starr said to AL.com. "They about approved anything."
It wasn't until the 1980s, continued afterwards Starr's retirement in 1971, that he assuredly began to feel better, Cherry Starr said. The quarterback visited Dr. James Andrews in the 1980s, and the acclaimed sports doctor begin a able in one of Starr's vertebrae, a bearings that appropriate surgery.
Cherry Starr, Bart Starr's wife, told AL.com that her bedmate was baffled during an admission for Crimson Tide varsity letterman as a junior. Starr abounding Alabama from 1952-1956.
"He was ailing at one point in traction," Cherry Starr told the website. "That was in the canicule if they were accomplished into the A-Club, and they had astringent beatings and paddling. From all the associates of the A-Club, they lined up with a big paddle with holes accomplished in it, and it in fact afflicted his back."
Cherry Starr said aback issues bedeviled Starr throughout his Hall of Fame years with the Packers, a 16-year career that saw him win two Super Bowl MVPs and 5 NFL titles. She said he dealt with aback spasms consistently and had common epidural injections.
"But his aback was never appropriate afterwards that," she added. "It was horrible. It was not a football injury. It was an abrasion abiding from hazing. His accomplished aback all the way up to his rib cage looked like a section of raw meat. The able-bodied went all the way up his back. It was red and atramentous and abominable looking. It was so brutal."
That's not the adventure that a lot of humans know, though. The accepted adventure has continued been that Starr, now 82, afflicted his aback in a punting blow afore his inferior season. According to Cherry, Starr never mentioned the assault because it had never been reported.
The adventure was verified, though, by Nick Germanos, a bound end who played with Starr at Alabama and went on to serve in the Marine Corps.
"It was hell," Germanos told AL.com. "Lord accept mercy, it was a asperous initiation."
Starr almost played afterwards the incident, seeing desultory time as a inferior for a aggregation that went 4-5-2, again arena sparingly as a chief for a Crimson Tide aggregation that went 0-10.
He was still drafted by the Packers in the 17th annular of the 1957 NFL draft, and he went on to action through the abrasion throughout his NFL career, Cherry Starr said.
"He was in so abundant affliction constantly," Cherry Starr said to AL.com. "They about approved anything."
It wasn't until the 1980s, continued afterwards Starr's retirement in 1971, that he assuredly began to feel better, Cherry Starr said. The quarterback visited Dr. James Andrews in the 1980s, and the acclaimed sports doctor begin a able in one of Starr's vertebrae, a bearings that appropriate surgery.
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