The Biggest Victory

We all tend to focus too much on the negative stories in sports. Sports radio would cease to exist if it could not focus on all the bad news and scandals in the world of sports. Its rare to hear anything positive these days. With the exception of the 'holiday sob stories' we get on Thanksgiving and Christmas, its pretty much all trash talk all the time.

So when a truely positive story comes along, its important for all of us to take a moment and reflect upon it. Fortunately, there is at least one story in sports right now that defines the term 'feel-good story.'

Kevin Everett will be transferred Friday morning to a Houston hospital to begin the next phase of his rehabilitation, less than two weeks after the Buffalo Bills tight end sustained a life-threatening spinal cord injury.
And doctors said Thursday they believe he will be walking within weeks -- perhaps sooner.

Everett is currently capable of sitting up in his bed without assistance now. Thats a huge leap of progress for a man who needed a respirator to breath a few days ago. Most experts had already taken for granted the fact that Everett would be paralyzed for life. Now he is on his way to living a normal life.

There is certainly no chance the Everett will ever play football again. But considering the situation, football is a pretty trivial matter. Sometime in the near future, Kevin Everett will WALK out of a hospital under his own power. That is a victory bigger than any Superbowl win could ever be.