Austin Collie still wants to know more about concussions

Buy PhotoThe seminal snapshot of a decade spent in football arrived Nov. 7, 2010, that day in Philadelphia when two defensive backs treated Austin Collie’s 6-foot, 205-pound body like a crash test dummy. It was the Smack! Smack! of consecutive hits then it was silence, with Collie lying on the turf, unconscious for nearly 10 minutes, arms frozen like a corpse.

Peyton Manning knelt beside him and said a prayer while a stadium and a team and a fanbase watching back home all wondered the exact same thing.

Is he ever going to get up? Is he ever going to play football again?

Austin Collie always got up, always wanted more football — after that first concussion, after a second one, after a third…