By Patricia Little
A perfect player is settling down for retirement with the New England Patriots. According to Sports illustrated, Tedy Bruschi has announced his retirement from New England Patriots. Bruschi spent his entire career in New England. At the age of 36 he returned from a mild stroke. In 2005 he played for 8 months. His time on the field declined last season and was playing with a second defense team unit. He has never played for any other football team. His one and only unachieved goal was to win a fourth championship.
Bruschi was at a news conference when he said, “your body doesn’t heal as quickly”. He missed training from camp and one exhibition game because of undisclosed injury. During the season he had a lot of health problems. At Massachusetts General Hospital 4 ½ years ago, Bruschi walked out unsteady when he had been admitted two days early on February 16, 2005. He had felt numbness in his left arm and left leg and had blurry vision, when he was diagnosis with a mild stroke. The stroke was caused by a whole in his heart, how ever he made a recover and came back just in time for the seventh game of the season.
Bruschi had made 10 tackles against the buffalo Bills. He led the team with a victory for the first time in 2006 despite his surgery. He was also the Patriots leading tackler again in 2007.
Over the course of 2008 Bruschi performance had declined. The rookie Jerod Mayo has emerged as the leader in the middle of defense. Mayo had stated that Bruschi, “took me under his wings when I first came here and told me one day he would pass the torch on to me and the rest of the team.” Kevin Faulk, the running back joined the team as the longest-tenured Patriot. When Faulk talks about Tedy Bruschi, he always states “leadership and inspiration.”
- Volume 2, Issue 1-
