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Message: <blockquote data-quote="milani" data-source="post: 1006673" data-attributes="member: 6654"><p>I know hockey is not the subject here but one of the greatest players of all time in that sport was Bobby Orr who at 18 spent 10 seasons with the Boston Bruins winning two Stanley Cups. He had gone through multiple knee surgeries and kept getting forced into action. The Bruins decide to trade him to Chicago for fear he could not perform. After a limited preseason Chicago put him on the ice for home games for the fans but kept him from going on the road. His knees would swell every time he played just one game. After several months of this Orr humbly retired. The story goes that he did not cash a single check paid to him in that short period. A similar athlete of that era was the infamous Bill Buckner who went under the knife on both knees plenty of times. Come the late 80s he would pack a big ice chest on road trips, fill it up at the hotel, and after games he would plunge both legs into it. Players love what they do but as they say, " The spirit is filling but the flesh is just too weak. "</p></blockquote><p></p>

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