Former Patriots QB Jim Plunkett: ‘My life sucks’

Patriots quarterback Jim Plunkett, just before getting hit in a game against the Jets in 1973. — Patriots quarterback Jim Plunkett, just before getting hit in a game against the Jets in 1973. –Frank O'Brien / Globe file

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The Boston Globe

August 5, 2017

Tom Brady celebrated his 40th birthday the other day, and a lot of people said the Patriots quarterback still moves like a much younger man.

Not so with former Pats QB Jim Plunkett, who suffers from chronic and debilitating pain these days as a result of being sacked, or hit, hundreds of times during his 15-year NFL career. He takes a dozen pills every day, he says, to “quote-unquote survive.”

In an agonizing interview with the San Jose Mercury News, the 69-year-old Plunkett put it this way: “My life sucks. It’s no fun being in this body right now. Everything hurts.”

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