Posted: Tue May 7, 2013 2:03PM; Updated: Fri May 17, 2013
10:47AM Jim Trotter  States, ex-players trying to level playing
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Enlarge font  SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Reggie Williams' movements
are as labored as his breathing. While others walk the halls of
the state Capitol with apparent ease, the 58-year-old former
Cincinnati Bengals linebacker struggles to get around. He has a
crutch under each arm, and his strides are uneven because his
right leg is three inches shorter than his left due to surgical
complications from injuries sustained during his 14-year career.
A raised scar runs down the middle of his right knee, which has
been operated on 24 times. It's so swollen it's hard to tell
where the top of the knee begins and the bottom of his thigh
ends, so disfigured that there appears to be three large
broccoli heads beneath the skin. Williams, the NFL's Man of the
Year in 1986 and Sports Illustrated's co-Sportsman of the Year
in 1987, normally keeps