The sole argument against Jim Tyrer in PFHOF debates concerned morality. The irony is that the very thing that allows us to reason morally—the prefrontal cortex—is one of the first things destroyed by CTE. So, what was Jim Tyrer’s responsibility? When he began to falter he

Jim Tyrer’s eldest son Brad, the Kansas City Star’s Vahe Gregorian and I joined Steve Kraske today to discuss the PFHOF candidacy and what’s next kcur.org/podcast/up-to-…

Today would have been Jim Tyrer’s 86th birthday. This past year, for the first time in 44 years, he was a finalist for the Pro Football Hall of Fame — allowing the world to get a glimpse of who he truly was. Not as a tragic headline, but as the dominant left tackle of his era.

A new exhibit now stands in the Kansas City Kansas City Chiefs Hall of Honor — a tribute to Jim Tyrer. This is what class and courage look like. The Chiefs didn’t have to do this. They could have let time and circumstance cloud his legacy. But they didn’t — because they knew Jim and

They say if you relax your eyes you can see KU playing up to its pre-season ranking.

Letter to the editor, Sept. 1980 from a KC psychiatrist, following the murder-suicide of Jim & Martha Tyrer. Stumbled upon this today. Even as Beneath the Shadow is in post-production, little nuggets of the story emerge. kppllc.net/beneath-the-sh…

Why would today’s young football fan want to see/hear anything about players of the past? That’s the question senior’s committee #PFHOF voters face. What compelling answers do you guys have? Jack M Silverstein 🇺🇸 PFHOFCanton_Paul ?? For me - when I see TE Fred Arbanas and Tyrer, I see Travis

Hadn't thought about it until a researcher noted it: that plastic shell might prevent a skull fracture but it actually turns the brain into the absorption element.

It wasn’t me expressing ideology when I bought a Tesla a year ago. Still isn’t today. Thinking of putting GM on the bumper.

“Find what you love and let it kill you” is a wildly popular quote. And it’s consistently misattributed to the hard living Charles Bukowski. My newest project pursues the origin of and impact of living the mantra… and it imagines Bukowski returning from the dead to reveal the

You don’t need to love poetry to love The Laughing Heart. It’s about what we intuitively know as children and so often have to reclaim as adults. apperception.substack.com/p/the-gods-wai…

Making a few grad vids that don’t fade to soft jazz or pretend your kid was calm. Real personality, real stories. (Yes, that is my speed demon.) DM me

Baseball has a morality clause that it’s willing to waive. Football has no morality clause, but it’s still withholding grace. Here’s to the voters who have informed themselves and shown courage. #PeteRose #JimTyrer

Toughed it out!

You only get one shot. Manny McVay took advantage of it. He knew he would have to lean for his 4x100 team to get the state championship. He did… and he fell, he popped up with the win… and a compound fracture. I was so impressed I had to look him up and get an interview which

The survival of just one person from the plane crash in India is so unfathomable it makes other aeronautical mishaps seem normal by comparison. More to come but for now… (Left) Ejecting from nosediving plane under 500 feet and being ok: 1 in 10–20 million (Upper right) Jumping

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