There were many days last fall when David Wilson just sat and stared at his television, watching the game he used to play. Never mind that doctors had advised him to quit, told him his neck injury made football too risky. There were times when he thought “I’m going to do it anyway.”
Sanity would eventually prevail for the former Giants running back, who was forced from the game at age 23 due to spinal stenosis. On the day he retired last August he insisted “I don’t want anybody to feel sorry for me or pity me” and he promised he wouldn’t feel sorry for himself.