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Punch-drunk boxers are the classic real-life example of what happens to someone who takes repeated pummeling damage in many fights year after year. However, the American National Football League is a better sampling. To survive more than a couple of seasons in the league is a guarantee of a lifetime of painful, lingering damage to battered joints, bones, and connective tissues. That life is also going to be about ten years shorter than that of the average adult American. The heart and body organs build up scar tissue likely to fail when the athlete is in his fifties and sixties.
Will result in [[Crack! Oh, My Back!]] as the person ages. If someone fits this but insists they're [[Made of Iron]], that person is a [[Perilous Old Fool]].
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* ''[[Requiem For A Heavyweight]]''
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