Like he did so many times in his 11-year professional football Hall of Fame career, Roger Craig delivered the ?goods at Saturday’s induction ceremony in Canton, Ohio.
Craig, 66, who waited 28 years before getting the call, waited until the end of his nine-minute recorded speech to reveal the heartbreaking news that he has been diagnosed with vascular dementia.
But the three-time San Francisco 49ers Super Bowl champion running back chose to focus on ?the gifts that his beloved game bestowed upon him and his family and use Saturday’s ?platform to ?reach out to successive generations of players to seek medical care when “something ?doesn’t feel right.”
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