{"id":287207,"date":"2024-09-26T09:27:18","date_gmt":"2024-09-26T14:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=287207"},"modified":"2024-09-26T09:41:07","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T14:41:07","slug":"tommy-kramer-ex-viking-announces-dementia-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=287207","title":{"rendered":"Tommy Kramer Announces Dementia Diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"
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MINNEAPOLIS (KFGO) \u2014 Longtime Vikings quarterback Tommy Kramer announced on Wednesday afternoon that he has been diagnosed with dementia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kramer, 69, said he had been diagnosed just over a year ago at the NFL Cleveland Clinic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019ve lived a great life and wouldn\u2019t change a thing. Nobody wanted to win more than me and I never gave up, and that\u2019s exactly how I\u2019m going to battle this. Football is the life we chose to live and sometimes stuff like this can happen,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He added that he is trying to bring awareness so the NFL will be able to help future players who are battling illnesses like dementia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDr\u2019s say I could have anywhere from 2 to 10 years, just had my year check up and it hasn\u2019t advanced and I\u2019ve been sober for almost a year now which will definitely help. Please, no sympathy, I\u2019ve lived a great life and wouldn\u2019t change a thing. Nobody wanted to win more than me and I never gave up, and that\u2019s exactly how I\u2019m going to battle this.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kramer was drafted by the Vikings in 1977, and played 13 seasons with the team, through the 1989 season. He played in one game with the New Orleans Saints in 1990. Nicknamed \u201cTwo-Minute Tommy\u201d for his signature 4th quarter comebacks, Kramer threw for 24,775 yards and 159 touchdowns as a Viking. He was named 1986 Comeback Player of the Year after throwing for 3,000 yards and 24 touchdowns, and leading the league in passer rating for the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MINNEAPOLIS (KFGO) \u2014 Longtime Vikings quarterback Tommy Kramer announced on Wednesday afternoon that he has been diagnosed with dementia. Kramer, 69, said he had been diagnosed just over a year ago at the NFL Cleveland Clinic. \u201cI\u2019ve lived a great life and wouldn\u2019t change a thing. Nobody wanted to win […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=287207"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287212,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287207\/revisions\/287212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=287207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=287207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=287207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}