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Herschel Walker has multiple personalities
Topic Started: Sat Jan 19, 2008 12:34 am (114 Views)
KRS-One
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ATLANTA – Georgia football great Herschel Walker has multiple personalities – a revelation in an upcoming book that surprises the man who coached the 1982 Heisman Trophy winner.

That's all news to me," former Georgia coach Vince Dooley said in Friday editions of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "All I know is whatever personality he had when he had the football was the one I liked."

"Breaking Free" will chronicle Walker's life with multiple personality disorder, according to Shida Carr, a publicist at Simon & Schuster.

Carr said the book will be published in August, but gave no other details and declined to provide excerpts.

In three seasons at Georgia, Walker led the Bulldogs to a 33-3-1 record, three straight Southeastern Conference championships and the 1980 national title. He won the Heisman as a junior, then left school a year early to sign with the now-defunct U.S. Football League.

Walker played for the Dallas Cowboys, Minnesota Vikings, Philadelphia Eagles and New York Giants. He has lived in Dallas since his playing career ended.

A former Georgia teammate also was caught off guard by Walker's revelation.

"I'm probably one of his closest friends and that's news to me," said Frank Ros, who was captain of Georgia's 1980 national championship team. "I knew he was working on a book but I just thought it was about football. He does 100 things at once and always has projects going on, but that blows me away."

The newspaper said Walker could not be reached for comment.

Multiple personality disorder, also known as dissociative identity disorder, is a rare mental condition in which one person has two or more distinct personalities, according to the Merck Manual of Medical Information.


Very, very interesting.
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HIGH LIFE!!!!!!!!!

I love how Herschel Walker never seems to be mentioned in the "greatest running back of all time" debate. Funny considering he has the all time pro football rushing record. Granted, it was mostly gained in the USFL, but still.
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KRS-One
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Herschel Walker is up there...top-10, for sure.

1. Jim Brown
2. Barry Sanders
3. Walter Payton
4. Gale Sayers
5. Emmit Smith
6. Ladainian Tomlinson
7. Herschel Walker
8. O.J. Simpson
9. Tony Dorsett
10. Marcus Allen

Bo Jackson would be top-5 if he had been healthy, in my opinion.
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EViL2uCe
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Shaun
Jan 19 2008, 12:47 AM
Herschel Walker is up there...top-10, for sure.

1. Jim Brown
2. Barry Sanders
3. Walter Payton
4. Gale Sayers
5. Emmit Smith
6. Ladainian Tomlinson
7. Herschel Walker
8. O.J. Simpson
9. Tony Dorsett
10. Marcus Allen

Bo Jackson would be top-5 if he had been healthy, in my opinion.

Not to knock your list, or anything ... but where's Earl Campbell?
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EViL2uCe
Jan 19 2008, 02:02 AM
Shaun
Jan 19 2008, 12:47 AM
Herschel Walker is up there...top-10, for sure.

1. Jim Brown
2. Barry Sanders
3. Walter Payton
4. Gale Sayers
5. Emmit Smith
6. Ladainian Tomlinson
7. Herschel Walker
8. O.J. Simpson
9. Tony Dorsett
10. Marcus Allen

Bo Jackson would be top-5 if he had been healthy, in my opinion.

Not to knock your list, or anything ... but where's Earl Campbell?

At #11...
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EViL2uCe
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Shaun
Jan 19 2008, 02:07 AM
EViL2uCe
Jan 19 2008, 02:02 AM
Shaun
Jan 19 2008, 12:47 AM
Herschel Walker is up there...top-10, for sure.

1. Jim Brown
2. Barry Sanders
3. Walter Payton
4. Gale Sayers
5. Emmit Smith
6. Ladainian Tomlinson
7. Herschel Walker
8. O.J. Simpson
9. Tony Dorsett
10. Marcus Allen

Bo Jackson would be top-5 if he had been healthy, in my opinion.

Not to knock your list, or anything ... but where's Earl Campbell?

At #11...

Campbell played for only 8 years, and lead the league in rushing for 3 years in a row. In 8 years of gridiron RBs he finished with over a 4 YPC. He was a BEAST.
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EViL2uCe
Jan 18 2008, 11:18 PM
Campbell played for only 8 years, and lead the league in rushing for 3 years in a row. In 8 years of gridiron RBs he finished with over a 4 YPC. He was a BEAST.

Eric Dickerson was the same way.

There's too many good running backs to try to rank them after the first few. Curtis Martin, Marshall Faulk and Thurman Thomas are up there as well.
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EViL2uCe
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The Walker thing makes me wonder ... could he always control it during games?
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With the revelations about players' brains after years of abuse in The League, could this be a result of the same? What I'm saying is, perhaps he didn't have multiple personalities when he played, but his mind deteriorated later and this condition developed. Possible?
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He would've smoked even the modern day College Football Rushing Record had he stayed at Georgia for his senior season. Definitely one of the Top 2-3 physical talents to ever play football.
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