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          The statue stands and Earl Campbell is on a wheelchair, such sacrifices for a game.

        1. Sports Illustrated catches up with the former Houston Oilers running back, painting an affecting portrait of the Tyler Rose, who overcame substance abuse.
        2. In a wheelchair at a young age is not more.
        3. He lived the next 30 years in a wheelchair before dying at 55 from complications from his condition.
        4. As they limp into the sunset, retired NFL players struggle with the game's grim legacy: a lifetime of disability and pain.

          5. In a wheelchair at a young age is not more..

          Campbell struggles to walk these days

          AUSTIN, Texas -- While Tony Dorsett played with his kids, and Archie Griffin and George Rogers played golf last week here at Barton Creek Resort, Earl Campbell was struggling to walk.

          Wearing a burnt orange Texas golf shirt, white knee-length shorts and new shoes with a Longhorn logo, Campbell used a walker to inch down a window-lined hallway overlooking one of his favorite golf courses.

          He took roughly six minutes to cover 40 yards -- a distance he used to breeze through in less than five seconds as a punishing running back at Texas and during an eight-year, Hall of Fame career in the NFL, mostly with the Houston Oilers.

          Still wearing his trademark beard, now gray, he stands at a 45-degree angle, unable to straighten his back.

          He can no longer straighten his knees, either.

          When the walker becomes too much work, he uses a wheelchair that he travels with at all times. During a 40-minute interview with reporters, Campbell was lucid one moment