There aren’t many things in pro football more dispiriting than seeing a player lying on the field motionless or writhing in pain from what has all the appearances of a season-ending or, worse yet, career-ending injury.
Those moments can be deflating for a team and fans alike as the Packers of the 1970s and ‘80s were reminded all too often.
One of the problems they encountered was an inordinate number of serious injuries to some of their best young players. They were injuries that literally sucked the life out of the franchise when they occurred.
Here were the most devastating.