Jim Plunkett’s painful journey: ‘My life sucks’
LiPo Ching/Bay Area News Group
This is heartbreaking. The Chicano Heisman Trophy winner, MVP of Super Bowl XV is paying the price of a hard-hitting professional football career: "The years of daily pain pulsating from the neck, back, knees, shoulders, hips and head have taken a toll on a quarterback who played 15 NFL seasons and led the Raiders to two Super Bowl victories."
By Eliott Almond, The Mercury News 
He rises from a chair next to his Heisman Trophy in a room stuffed with dozens of silver and gold keepsakes that recognize a remarkable sports legacy. At 6-foot-3, Jim Plunkett still commands a room.
But underneath the tanned exterior anxiety grows over an uncertain future.
“My life sucks,” said Plunkett, 69. “It’s no fun being in this body right now. Everything hurts.”
The years of daily pain pulsating from the neck, back, knees, shoulders, hips, and head have taken a toll on a quarterback who played 15 NFL seasons and led the Raiders to two Super Bowl victories.
