23Steps
09-17-2009, 12:39 PM
Before my time, but great story:
By the beginning of the 1981 season, however, their respective fortunes had diverged. Bryant still retained all the abilities most of us take for granted--to walk and run and jump, for example. But Streater was bound to a wheelchair, the tragic victim of the spinal injury resulting from an automobile crash on a rain-slickened road one night in April. He would spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair, and that's exactly where Bryant encountered him on a steamy September afternoon as the 1981 season dawned. Twice after scoring fourth-quarter touchdowns, Bryant looped from the left corner of the east end zone to the area behind the goal posts and handed the ball off to Streater, the second offering captured in this photo from the files of the UNC Athletic Communications office.
http://tarheelblue.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/091709aaa.html
By the beginning of the 1981 season, however, their respective fortunes had diverged. Bryant still retained all the abilities most of us take for granted--to walk and run and jump, for example. But Streater was bound to a wheelchair, the tragic victim of the spinal injury resulting from an automobile crash on a rain-slickened road one night in April. He would spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair, and that's exactly where Bryant encountered him on a steamy September afternoon as the 1981 season dawned. Twice after scoring fourth-quarter touchdowns, Bryant looped from the left corner of the east end zone to the area behind the goal posts and handed the ball off to Streater, the second offering captured in this photo from the files of the UNC Athletic Communications office.
http://tarheelblue.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/091709aaa.html