Keith Moon died in this 30s. Ian Curtis died at 23. Freddie Mercury at 45.
I'm going to take a guess that Walter's cancer and Reggie's sleep apnea and sarcoidosis wheren't caused by their football careers.
Then again, there's a big chance that your comment was made with a heavy load of sarcasm.
"zombieslayer" wrote:
Moon died of drugs. Curtis a suicide (he was nuts to begin with). Mercury died of AIDS, and that's a damn shame as he's my 3rd fave singer of all-time. But Mercury packed a lot more fun in his first 40 years than I packed in mine, that's fo shizzle.
Mercury's parties were legendary in an industry that had legendary parties. You look at Motley Crue, the Rolling Stones, Aerosmith, those folks had crazy ass times. So no, I'm not being sarcastic.
As for Wallie, his liver was demolished by physical blows. I know I argued with someone before about this. Maybe our sources differ. White had sleep apnea because he was a huge guy. It's like the Fridge. He's not exactly going to live to be in his 70s.
Ever read about what happened to Mike Webster? Or heck, pretty much any of those linemen from the 1970s. Crazy stuff. The physical beatings he took drove him mad.
Football - you get your body beaten up to the point where years are taken off of it. Rock stars take years off of their lives by their own actions. Like geez, if you're doing to do coke and groupies, do the coke in moderation and have a doctor handy to check out your groupies. That's what Kiss did and that's why Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley never got AIDS, and they screwed girls in the thousands. Literally.
"Rockmolder" wrote: