Great article on Dan Campbell [Archive]

whitelightnin_23

04-22-2008, 12:00 PM

Dan Campbell = Red Ass Aggie...

All heroes have a weakness, Superman had kryptonite. Achilles had his heel. Campbell came to terms with his elbow being his own Achilles' heel. What I have learned now, is that before Detroit had time to put Campbell on injured reserve, back on September 23rd of '07, Campbell had already had a radical THIRD surgery, two days earlier on September 21st. An elbow specialist reattached the triceps tendon -- what was left of it, anyway.

With very little tendon left in his right elbow, following the three surgeries, Campbell's playing days were obviously over. This is where Dan's story takes a bazaar turn. Dan, facing the fact that his playing days were obviously at end, opted for something radical on that Friday in September. Dan had the surgeon reinforce his elbow with, get this, an Achilles tendon, from an actual dead body - a cadaver.

Now I don't believe you could find another person willing to go through such goulish experimental extremes to remain in the NFL - except Dan Campbell.

Pflugerville Ag

04-22-2008, 12:43 PM

Just glad he chose to go to a school where men like women and women like men.

I just came across this old article about what the Westboro Baptist church thought of Campbell's comments. I had never read this before. The word that is censored is f-a-g.

"President Bowen and Coach Slocum made Dan
Campbell grovel before the ***s because he
exercised his First Amendment free-speech
rights," the release said. "Dan Campbell
showed cowardice and weakness yielding to ***
pressure."

Becki Elkins Nesheim, coordinator of the
Department of Student Life's Gender Issues
Education Services, said the Westboro event
is an attempt to undo the positive action of
the University.

"These people are taking a situation that the
University is trying to turn into something
positive into something ugly that they have
filled with hatred," Nesheim said. "His press
release concerning Dan Campbell, Texas A&M
and homosexuals is nothing more than
hate-filled speech."

In the news release, Westboro announced its
intent to picket in St. Louis with signs and
demonstrations visible to all who enter the
stadium.

"Kansas State should have no trouble beating
a *** Aggie team, cowed by the Texas A&M ***
student body into abject silence," the
release said. "When football players must
give up free-speech rights to satisfy ***s,
they lose heart."

Fred Phelps has been the pastor of Westboro
for 43 of the church's 45 years of existence.
Phelps said the purpose of the protest is to
let people know the word of God.

"We are going to be there to let people know
that God hates ***s and the fact that they
seem to have a powerful influence these days
at universities and institutions of
education," Phelps said. "What Dan Campbell
said was innocuous. It shows the political
power of gays and the fact that they are
worming their way into the liberal domain of
academia."

Phelps said members of Westboro are planning
a protest trip to Texas A&M in the near
future.

"Because A&M has allowed ***s to take it
over, it is damned," Phelps said. "We are
planning to make a trip to A&M either before
the end of the semester or early next
semester. We will set up in whatever type of
student union is available and preach the
word of God."

As far as potential reactions from Aggies in
St. Louis, Phelps said he is unconcerned.

"When we protested in North Carolina, we had
police protection, and we will have the same
this weekend," Phelps said.

"The protesters will have signs tailored with
our logos and messages that A&M is a ***
school to the point that a guy will have to
retract his completely innocuous statement."

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