Nope Springs Eternal
I like to remember Ron Springs as Tony Dorsett's capable backup. A guy with soft hands and nifty feet. Dangerous on the middle screen. A sneaky player who would sometimes rare back and fling a lefty halfback pass toward Drew Pearson.
Those memories, however, have been tasered by reality.
I come to you this morning with a couple poignant leftovers from this week’s dead-tree version of The Sportatorium and my column about the tragic tale of the former Cowboy.
Quick refresher: After football Springs lost a leg to diabetes, got a kidney transplant from former teammate Everson Walls, was doing great and then, boom, went into the hospital to have an unrelated cyst removed from his arm and went into a catastrophic coma. Springs’ lawyers say it was because of negligent anesthesiologist Dr. Joyce Abraham; The doctors’ attorneys claim it was just one of those medical mysteries that no one can prevent, nor explain.
While Springs lies in a vegetative state in a Medical City Hospital room with little or no chance of awaking, teams of attorneys are haggling over what exactly went wrong during the pre-op.
