Former NFL player and general manager Matt Millen says he is being treated for a rare disease that has robbed his heart of most of its normal function.
The 60-year-old Millen told the Morning Call in Allentown
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Millen played 12 seasons as a linebacker in the NFL for the Raiders, 49ers and Redskins 鈥?and won four Super Bowl rings.
He later served as Detroit's general manager and has also spent three decades as a broadcaster. Millen told the Morning Call he plans to return to the booth in the fall.
Millen's heart issues began in 2011, when he first felt chest pain while exercising. Heart tests, including a cardiac catheterization
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Amyloidosis often goes undiagnosed because its symptoms mimic those of more common diseases. But Millen's symptoms grew worse over time, and he visited doctors for six years before finally getting diagnosed with the rare disease last July.
"I know what you have," Millen recalled the doctor telling him, "and you're not going to like it."
Millen's case reached the point where he was risking the kind of heart failure that would eventually require a transplant. Millen spent the week before the Super Bowl undergoing tests at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota.
"When a bump comes up in the road, you deal with it
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Hue Jackson’s shuddering season with the Cleveland Browns will include one last chill.
The coach is keeping his promise and plans to jump into Lake Erie on June 1 in an event for charity and hopefully wash away two long, losing seasons.
Jackson announced Monday on the team’s Twitter account that he will take a dip into the chilly waters in a few weeks. As the Browns were staggering toward a winless 2017 season, Jackson vowed that if the team didn’t improve on its 1-15 record from the previous year that he would take the plunge.
Well, the Browns made history as the second NFL team to go 0-16 and now it’s time for Jackson to pay up.
And get wet.
Jackson pledged that for every Browns employee that joins him in the water he will donate $100 to his foundation
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Jackson and his wife, Michelle, began the Hue Jackson Foundation last summer.
The team did not reveal any other details for the private event.
Despite going 1-31 in his two seasons, Jackson kept his job and now he’s hoping his splashdown can symbolize a new beginning for the Browns.
”I’m hoping to also cleanse ourselves of all the losing for the past two seasons by jumping in
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