Sam Huff needs help making life decisions....

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Sam Huff needs help making life decisions....

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On March 31, just four days after Easter, Catherine Huff visited Huff Farm, the sprawling Middleburg estate with fields fit for horses and rooms filled with football memorabilia, home to one of the most famous men ever to play for the Washington Redskins. She picked up her father, Sam Huff, the legendary linebacker, to take him to a dentist appointment. Nothing seemed amiss to Carol Holden, Huff’s live-in domestic and business partner of nearly three decades.

“Ms. Holden had no idea that [Huff’s daughter] had no plans of bringing Mr. Huff back to Middleburg or returning him to Huff Farm,” according to court records.

Five months later, Huff still has not returned. The 81-year-old member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame suffers from dementia, according to court papers, related to either Alzheimer’s or chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a degenerative brain disease researchers link to playing football. He now finds himself caught in the middle of a family dispute over who should be making medical and financial decisions on his behalf.


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https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/r ... story.html
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Re: Sam Huff needs help making life decisions....

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Sad. A great man with a strong will.
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Re: Sam Huff needs help making life decisions....

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We've seen "The Violent World of Sam Huff". Just to remind ourselves of Huff before he was Sonny's co-announcer, even before he landed with Otto Graham's Redskins:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jxd4ONwp1Q
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Re: Sam Huff needs help making life decisions....

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Yeah, I saw that article. Very sad.
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Re: Sam Huff needs help making life decisions....

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I have not met the daughter but have met "Carol Holden, Huff’s live-in domestic and business partner of nearly three decades" several times.

She seemed like a great lady who cared about Sam an awful lot.

If you'd like to read accounts of some of my conversations with Sam, go here: viewtopic.php?f=7&t=37551

It's been a year. He could not remember what he had said 5 minutes earlier but every time he recounted something from the distant past, the story never changed.
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