Tommy Kramer has Dementia
With Brett Favre announcement yesterday, I feel it’s best I let everyone know that I was diagnosed with dementia just over a year ago at the NFL Cleveland Clinic.
— Tommy Kramer (@Kramer9Tommy) September 25, 2024
Dr’s say I could have anywhere from 2 to 10 years, just had my year check up and it hasn’t advanced and I’ve been…
Hurry-up Vikings, we ain't getting any younger!
Wow. Speechless.
Yet he has no regrets.
Montana Tom wrote:
Wow. Speechless. Yet he has no regrets.
69 years old now
Hard living, hard working, hard drinking...
Hurry-up Vikings, we ain't getting any younger!
So very sad about this, he was my first Viking "hero", so to speak, when I was old enough to have a clue about the game. Danny White, Rashad...all on my early Purple watch list.
I'm always hoping medical science makes progress on these things, now that increases a bit more.
KOC, JJM, Flores...make a good plan, or you'll be following Kwesi....
Zanary wrote:
So very sad about this, he was my first Viking "hero", so to speak, when I was old enough to have a clue about the game. Danny White, Rashad...all on my early Purple watch list.I'm always hoping medical science makes progress on these things, now that increases a bit more.
I assume you meant Sammy White? ;)
Very sad to hear this about TK9, he was a boyhood hero, i was to young to understand the jeers amd jokes about his off field issues, just that he was the captain of ny favorite teams ship. I missed going to see him a few weeks ago near me, hope i get another chance. Hope we all get more chances.
Why isn't Chuck Foreman in the Hall of Fame?
We met TK at the Viking bar in Denver couple seasons ago. My son got his autograph. Nice guy. Really sad to hear about the dementia. What a monstrously cruel thing that is.
I still remember his fearsome hangover scowl at camp in Mankato back around 85 or 86. We were standing by the dorms as the guys came out, trying to get an autograph. Tommy's face was a twisted canvas of "fuck you". He didn't have to say a word to tell us no. An image that will never leave my mind, lol.
Sorry that he's got this disease, lotta older football players are dealing with it no doubt from all the brain hits with what we know now about CTE, etc.
I didn't envy those late 70's/early 80's players for the Vikings.
They took the torch from the SB years and no team has lived up to them since. Some fun moments, but no sustained success really.
Wish Kramer and his family peace in the time they have together.
Hurry-up Vikings, we ain't getting any younger!
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