Talk About A Team Player
The Senate just honored former Dallas Cowboys cornerback Everson Walls -- not for his past football prowess (he was named to the pro bowl four times, and led the NFL in interceptions in 1981, 82 and 85) -- but for donating a kidney to one of his best friends, his former teammate Ron Springs.
Everson, known to those of you who watched football in the early '80s as Cubby, played ball with Springs on the Cowboys from '81-84. He gave Springs the kidney early this year following news that the diabetes-suffering Springs, who had been on dialysis, was healthy enough to take a kidney.
Springs, who is 50, lives in Dallas and played eight years in the NFL.
Walls has "greatly improved the prognosis for Ron Springs. He has helped him to walk again, to regain the use of his hands, and ended the use of his dialysis treatments," said Sen. Florence Shapiro, who represents the Plano district where Walls lives. "This is a tremendous story."
"Your act toward your friend Ron Springs should set an example for all of us," Sen. Royce West, D-Dallas, said.
