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A friend had to help Michael Haynes put on his underwear. The man kneeled down on the locker-room floor and stretched the elastic waistband as the Falcons receiver carefully stepped through the leg holes, grimacing because of injured ribs.

The next time the blowhard at the end of the bar, or the know-it-all at the hardware store, blathers on about football players making too much money, ask him if he’s ever been carted off the job, his head strapped to a board.