GA TECH, BEARS GREAT COULD NO LONGER SPEAK OR WALK

12.27.12

By 2010, when Bill Banks of the Atlanta Journal Constitution did a story about the great Decatur High football teams of the early 1950’s, their biggest star Larry Morris had full-on dementia and could no longer remember the good old days. Nor could he even speak or walk according to his wife, Kay Morris. The great Georgia Tech and Chicago Bear player passed away last week after suffering from dementia since 1988. Morris (and his family) have been suffering from this terrible illness since before Robert Griffin III, Andrew Luck, and Greg McElroy were even born. And still today, so many football players have no idea of the daily realities of the dementia that these former football players and their families are suffering with. Awareness of the concussion dilemma in sports has risen considerably since the NFL litigation began, and one can imagine that awareness of the actual suffering that some of these plaintiffs and their families are going through is only going to continue to increase dramatically.