Count Osi Umenyiora among the current and recently retired NFL players who are hoping their sons stay away from football.
In a series of posts on Twitter on Tuesday, the Giants’ defensive end wrote that “Kurt Warner is right to think how he is thinking about his kids and football,” a reference to the former quarterback’s statements last week that he hopes his sons will not play the sport.
Umenyiora went further, saying that the game will likely take away his ability to walk in the coming years.
“It’s an awesome game and has done a lot for me, but I know when I’m 45 there is a strong chance I’ll be in a wheelchair . . . If I can avoid that for my son, I will. But if he wants to play I won’t stop him.”
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