But it is what it is. Which would appear to be another example of Dobler's speaking for effect, rather than speaking with absolute honesty. I never go up any stairs that don’t have a handrail. survival! Or I'd like to believe I have. “We were both using canes, and the kid says, ‘Do you have to go down there with your canes?’ And I said, ‘Yes, we do, and we’re like this because of the freakin’ game we played!’ I would have kicked his ass if I had two good legs.”Dobler manages to maintain his sense of humor, but his soul aches. He keeps the bottle on his desk, next to his nicotine gum, his keys, various pens and pencils, checkbooks and unpaid bills.It's the Vicodin that frees him to creak up and down the three concrete steps from the curb to his office door, which he does these days by shifting his body sideways and hobbling up one by one, using his glossy black cane for leverage.


Snickering, he added, “But I was on the All-Academic squad. Which is that this is a cold, hard world, and there is nothing people could care less about than someone else's problems.For years, that's all Dobler felt like his football career consisted of: He took punch after punch, and yes, he fought back, and maybe he bent the rules in doing it. "Just in a different way.

"I can do an interview over the But the producer wasn't talking about that kind of interview. Through ten years in the NFL, Conrad Dobler played in 129 games and amassed nine fumble recoveries, of which one was for a touchdown. You have to fight yourself, saying, 'Who am I, really? He once punched He’s the president of a company that is a national flu vaccination provider. Or that he will go down a list of their names until one answers.Dobler may not remember what he had for breakfast or the fact that he has 11 grandchildren – his best guess was 10 – but his mind is sharp as a tack when it comes to his battles on the gridiron, his youth delivering milk in the desert of California and his decision to become a Wyoming Cowboy.“My roommates asked me where I had been,” Dobler recalls. The roundtrip was 1,500 miles, hard miles for a self-described cripple. The phone on his desk rings constantly. Political incorrectness, his fondness for the opposite sex and alcohol-soaked amusement is usually at the top of the list.In fact, he is still very much that guy. The days that begin at 5:30 a.m. and end 11 or 12 hours later, often seven days a week. But he chooses his movements carefully these days because he is in possession of a pair of knees that resemble misshapen melons in a discount supermarket bin. He has hinges in both knees where cartilage once was. To cope, he keeps it nearby to take in small doses throughout the day.Before settling on Vicodin, Dobler tried Percocet and OxyContin prescriptions to handle the pain.Although Dobler insists he wasn't all that dirty a player, some former opponents would argue.Doug Sutherland, whom Dobler admits biting, describes Dobler as, "A whole lot of crazy.

He refers to them as “donkeys.” He says he hopes his remaining days are “filled with blondes and pissed off husbands.”Yes, Dobler is still that colorful character that donned the cover of Sports Illustrated back in July of 1977.“It must’ve been a really boring month in sports to have me on the cover,” Dobler joked as he spit out at least his eighth piece of Nicorette gum.In 2016, USA Today penned a story entitled: “Former NFL guard Conrad Dobler can’t recall children’s names.”He jokes that he does now. “I just had surgery.”Dobler says he used to swallow a “handful” of pain killers every day. Now, he claims he is only on over-the-counter medications. Still in need of further surgeries, Dobler, like many other disabled pro football veterans, has been unable to gain disability assistance from the NFL. His doctors eventually cut him off.If things aren’t bad enough for the three-time Pro Bowl guard, his wife, Joy, Dobler said, taught him about patience, overcoming and love.“She was the toughest woman I have ever known,” an emotional Dobler said, adding that he just watched a movie that really reminded him of her and struck a chord.On July 4, 2001, Joy fell out of a hammock at a backyard party and broke her neck. "Years later, Joy and Conrad started their business together, but he has other monetary interests, as well. "But I think he's serious. "But this is not just for me," he says. For Dobler, Vicodin — which typically has a sedative effect — works like speed. Welcome to the next generation of great UW sports coverage. Doctors are the ones who got me hooked on them.”She knows her father’s mind is getting worse. I've always said that Conrad was really one of those people who adapted to the game. "And handle it she has, even as the Doblers have spent nearly all of their savings on medical care (such as a therapist to come help Joy stretch out her body in the morning), even as they've been forced to put their house, Joy's dream house, on the market in search of something smaller, even as day after day goes by and the Doblers' own debts escalate and any bills proposing federal funding for stem-cell research fail to gain a veto-proof majority in Congress. His wife Joy fell off the hammock and landed on her head, breaking her neck and making her a quadriplegic.Aside from the emotional devastation, the accident brought an avalanche of medical bills. Conrad Dobler, once dubbed the NFL's dirtiest player, is approaching his 57th birthday in a body broken down from years of abuse on the field. “But like my dad always told me: you can crap in one hand and wish in the other.• Founder/ publisher of 7220 Sports • Award-winning sports writer in Michigan, Texas and Wyoming All original content copyright 7220sports.com 2019 school there had friends who played football been watching them ever sense.

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