🏈On August 12, 1978 New England Patriots wide receiver Darryl Stingley suffers a broken neck and is paralyzed from the chest down after taking a savage hit from Oakland Raiders safety Jack Tatum in an exhibition game. “There's been a fracture and dislocation of the fourth and fifth vertebrae," says a Patriots team doctor, "and a subsequent compression of the spinal cord that immediately rendered Darryl quadriplegic." Stingley is hurt while running a crossing pattern over the middle in the secon