Mystery Person 07 Poem by Kim Barney

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I was born in a bank - - my mother went there and made a deposit
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Mystery Person 07

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He was one of the highest paid.
By a penalty flag he was waylaid.
For the next three years he asked himself why
that flag had to hit him in the right eye.

Mystery Person 07
Kim Barney
Monday, January 22, 2018
Topic(s) of this poem: football,mystery,people,sports
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He was one of the highest paid players in the NFL at the time, but during one game was accidentally hit in the right eye by a penalty flag weighted with ball bearings.The referee immediately apologized, but this player missed the next three seasons with temporary blindness.Can you identify him? (To see previous mystery persons, just keep clicking the 'previous poem' button) By the way, when I tested this picture a few minutes ago, at least one person thought it was funny. It is not intended to be funny. This was and is a very serious matter. This player sued the NFL for 200 million dollars and reportedly they settled for about 25 million.22 January 2018Clarksburg, Maryland
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Kim Barney 14 October 2022

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wes vogler 28 February 2020

I would hope that weighted penalty flags were changed after this sheesh

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Spock The Vegan 22 January 2018

Eye, yi, yi. I'm not a sports person, so no use of me guessing. Good poem though. Thanks for posting.

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