I didn't get hurt until my freshman year at what is now called UL Lafayette in 1978, before that it was called USL. I was a walk on player. I was just 6'/180#, playing the Strong Safety position. Partially tore the ACL in my left knee and damaged the meniscus. I figured then and there that I was done. Funny story, my senior year in high school we were playing against Patterson and there was a freshman player by the name of Dalton Hilliard that came on an end-around and was coming straight for for me. I tried to tackle him low around his waist and he ran right over me. He hit me so hard, I was sitting flat on my behind, I thought I was blind in one my eyes, when I realized my helmet had turned sideways and I was looking through the earhole of my helmet. But somehow I slowed him down just enough for someone else to make a tackle on him, LOL.