Don Unverferth, Terrible Quarterback and Incredible Human Being

My mom was born on January 18th, 1951 with a cardiac condition that doctors figured out would eventually kill her. She required open heart surgery, which wouldn't have been that big of a deal except the kind of surgery she required hadn't been invented yet.

Luckily for her (and, you know, me and my sister), a Lebanese-American doctor named Michael DeBakey was working on a solution. Dr. DeBakey was already a legend by this point; he had revolutionized heart surgery with a number of procedures of his own invention, he helped invent the concept of MASH units during World War II, and he was also one of the first surgeons to habitually record his surgeries on film. Also he ended up on Nixon's…