Found December 03, 2009 on
Jeff Dickerson's Blog:
LAKE FOREST, Ill. -- Concussions in the NFL are certainly not a laughing matter, but Bears cornerback Charles Tillman was able to find some humor in the mild concussion he suffered last Sunday against the Minnesota Vikings.
"Well, it obviously hurt," Tillman said. "What else happened? I'm trying to remember, everything is so foggy. Really, it was just a hard hit to the back of my Medulla oblongata, the back of the head, that big bump. I saw like a bright flash, dizziness more than anything."
Luckily for Tillman, he didn't have any visions of past relatives in that bright flash of light.
"I didn't see my grandfather, uncles or my aunts," Tillman said with a sigh of relief. "I didn't see anybody."
Despite the concussion, Tillman still wanted to keep playing last Sunday, but smarter heads prevailed.
"Yeah, I felt like I could go back in, but the doctors were like 'No, we're going to hold you out,' " Till...
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