A core member of the Dolphins’ perfect season has something “really wrong with his brain,” Sports Illustrated is reporting.
And football, with the 14 years he spent as a human battering ram, may be to blame.
For the last four years, famed Dolphins linebacker Nick Buoniconti has suffered falls, memory loss, confusion and often has trouble putting on his own shirt, according a preview of a report set to come out Tuesday.
“I feel lost,” the Hall of Famer told Sports Illustrated. “I feel like a child.”
He’s not the only member of the 1972 team to feel that way.