Outside The Lines

[DTenGil]

just saw the special on espn. Very well done. Really shows how O.J. has helped to inspire the team and anyone living with ALS. If you haven't seen it yet, watch it!

[url="http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/otl/index"]http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/otl/index[/url]

here's you tube link until ESPN puts it up:
[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeDauc4fb70"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeDauc4fb70[/url]

[RayLew52]

I watched it earlier it was hard to watch.

[clayton89]

[quote name='DTenGil' post='188659' date='Apr 30 2009, 07:13 PM']just saw the special on espn. Very well done. Really shows how O.J. has helped to inspire the team and anyone living with ALS. If you haven't seen it yet, watch it!

[url="http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/otl/index"]http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/otl/index[/url]

here's you tube link until ESPN puts it up:
[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeDauc4fb70"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeDauc4fb70[/url][/quote]
such a great story

[tctony]

I saw that today as well; it was really inspiring. I have a sister with Down syndrome, and while ALS and Downs are definitely two different things, stuff like that really helps put things in perspective. The way people like OJ persevere is, as I said, really inspiring.

[mhead66]

[quote name='RayLew52' post='188703' date='Apr 30 2009, 09:57 PM']I watched it earlier it was hard to watch.[/quote]
I just watched it, it was heart-wrenching. To go from playing with such intensity, to the frail, barely-able-to-speak O.J. that he is now, is so sad.

Lots of class & respect given by his (former) teammates...

[PurpleChaos]

I watched it as well and found it very touching

[RayLew52]

He's only 39.

[ROH522155]

is it gonna be showed again?

[kash96ravenstotalfan]

[quote name='clayton89' post='188707' date='Apr 30 2009, 10:10 PM']such a great story[/quote]
I watched, first hand, a very close friend of mine die from ALS. You have no idea how phyically debilatating this disease is. My friend was a great physical specimen who played football, baseball and was an avid fisherman. In the end, I would visit him every sunday and hand feed him. I also would hold his cigarette up to his mouth so he could smoke it. I have never witnessed a more debilatating disease than ALS, you have to see it firsthand to understand what i am talking about. Hopefully, you never will

[Moderator 2]

Several of my patient had ALS when I did homecare, sometimes I would leave their houses and just cry. OJ is an inspiration and I can't believe how fast he has progressed.

[jezzy]

hope all is well oj you been nothing but a inspiration for alota of people n the piece was well deserved thanx for everything my praywers are with you go oj

[SupaBwandin]

I was hoping to go all the way for [i]him[/i].

[Fred Sanford]

It's his declining ability to enunciate, more than an inability to form coherent thoughts, that we're seeing. The man's still plenty sharp, and such a fighter. He definitely makes me look at life a little differently.