We know football players are tough. Sometimes, they’re insanely tough. Consider Patriots linebacker Dont’a Hightower, who played the final month of the regular season and playoffs with a torn right labrum.
As such, he played in pain, with just one fully functional arm through the most pivotal games of the season, and still made what amounted to a touchdown-saving tackle on Seattle running back Marshawn Lynch near the goal line in the final minute of the Super Bowl.
And you know what? He’d do it all over again in a heartbeat.
“I’ll take a torn shoulder any day to get a Super Bowl ring,” Hightower told the Herald yesterday from his Tennessee home.