Tom Brady celebrated his 40th birthday the other day, and a lot of people said the Patriots quarterback still moves like a much younger man.
Not so with former Pats QB Jim Plunkett, who suffers from chronic and debilitating pain these days as a result of being sacked, or hit, hundreds of times during his 15-year NFL career. He takes a dozen pills every day, he says, to “quote-unquote survive.”
In an agonizing interview with the San Jose Mercury News, the 69-year-old Plunkett put it this way: “My life sucks. It’s no fun being in this body right now.