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Too many exhibitions endangering star players.
Byline: Skip Bayless
Before the annual rushin' roulette that is the NFL preseason, 49ers General Manager Terry Donahue was asked if he'd like to see the number of exhibition games reduced from the current four or five.
Donahue didn't yet know the Atlanta Falcons would lose the NFL's most exciting player, quarterback Michael Vick, to a broken leg.
Or that the New York Jets would lose a rising star, quarterback Chad Pennington, to a broken wrist.
Or that the 49ers would avoid losing quarterback Jeff Garcia, who has a ruptured disk, but lose one of his favorite targets, tight end Eric Johnson, to a broken clavicle.
But Donahue knew what every GM knows and dreads _ that somebody out there, maybe him, would soon pay dearly for playing so many summer games on top of so many summer two-a-day practices…
- Too many exhibitions endangering star players.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Bayless, Skip August 27, 2003 700+ words
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