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Another Bengal who chose, rather than was forced, to retire. In this case, it was primarily to protect his piano-skilled fingers.NWebster wrote:Mike Reid, Mike Reid and Mike Reid.
The injury in question was Theismann-like in its gruesomeness: 10/20/63, while playing for the Bills in Houston. Kochman was being tackled by two Oilers (275-pound DT Dudley Meredith and 245-pound DE Gary Cutsinger), with his cleat stuck in the ground. One leg crossed over the other and the combination of that, being off-balance and being tackled at the same time ended up snapping his leg at the knee. The injury was bad enough that he spent two months in a Houston hospital, with the injury described as near-fatal because a main artery had been severed. He ended up having a total of nine surgeries over a period of 30 months. BTW, Joe Paterno (then a Penn State assistant) personally had recruited him to go to Happy Valley.JeffreyMiller wrote:Roger Kochman, victim of one of the most horrific injuries pro football has ever seen. He played four games and showed tons of potential ...
That injury is way worse than the Ken Dyer injury in 71. And that one was bad (I don't want to talk about it, though). He was a CB, too (with Cincinnati).BD Sullivan wrote:The injury in question was Theismann-like in its gruesomeness: 10/20/63, while playing for the Bills in Houston. Kochman was being tackled by two Oilers (275-pound DT Dudley Meredith and 245-pound DE Gary Cutsinger), with his cleat stuck in the ground. One leg crossed over the other and the combination of that, being off-balance and being tackled at the same time ended up snapping his leg at the knee. The injury was bad enough that he spent two months in a Houston hospital, with the injury described as near-fatal because a main artery had been severed. He ended up having a total of nine surgeries over a period of 30 months. BTW, Joe Paterno (then a Penn State assistant) personally had recruited him to go to Happy Valley.JeffreyMiller wrote:Roger Kochman, victim of one of the most horrific injuries pro football has ever seen. He played four games and showed tons of potential ...