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Gleason - Documentary about former NFL player handling ALS (1 Viewer)

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If you appreciate a movie that will absolutely eat at your emotions (laugh, cry, think, etc), this is it.  At it's root, a story about relationships, most specifically dads and sons....but just awesomely powerful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgkQU32XSFQ&feature=youtu.be

Now available streaming for free for Amazon Prime members - https://www.amazon.com/Gleason-Clay-Tweel/dp/B01I2BH81W

https://youtu.be/WgkQU32XSFQ

Been getting rave reviews (sundance, SBSW, etc)  and starting to play in more cities.  If it's available close to you, you won't regret it

 
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I remember watching an NFLN feature on him back in 2012 I believe. Steve being carried up Machu Picchu. Got awfully dusty that night.

Preview of the Football Life episode (2013):

http://m.neworleanssaints.com/news-and-events/article-1/Team-Gleason-to-be-featured-on-NFL-Network’s-“A-Football-Life”-Tuesday-night/33385d33-5113-4339-aa5e-455f440b0282

And this play right here, probably the first time in a long time that crowd had a chance to celebrate, believe.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MIGgBhNtOP4

After Katrina it was hard not to be a Saints fan for those several years that ended with a Super Bowl win. (Even for a Panthers fan like myself).

Hope all you Louisiana baws and your loved ones are safe during these current floods.

Thanks for this thread Tiger Fan, I look forward to checking out the new movie.

 
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Gucci Fur said:
@Tiger Fan @SaintsInDome2006 and any other LA guys or people with family in southern LA, #### is looking real bad right now. If you know of anyone in an at risk location this Facebook group is a place to post for help getting out. Or to post if you can help others. 

https://m.facebook.com/groups/152880778482582/?ref=nf_target&fref=nf

Hope all the FBGs down there are safe.

(Not trying to derail the Gleason thread, just figured LA people might check in here)
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Thanks I'm not on FB but I will pass this around.

 
I'll have to watch it.  It will be hard though.  ALS ranks way, way up there on my list of least desired ways to go.  I'm almost certain I'd go the Kervorkian route.

 
Watched this last night and :cry: throughout most of the movie.

I never knew ALS was such a horrible disease. I.just.can't.imagine.

 
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Watched this last night and :cry: throughout most of the movie.

I never knew ALS was such a horrible disease. I.just.can't.imagine.
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Definitely. I agree with Judge Smails. I like to think I'd be strong enough to deal with whatever comes my way, but I'm sure I'd be jumping off a bridge or something with this disease. So terrible. 

Only 1 out of 50,000 people in the US get this disease. Talk about a bad beat.

 
I know I mentioned it up thread.  

It is soul crushing to watch someone you care about suffer with it. That's why I have zero problems with people doing that ALS challenge.  Sure it turns into a LOOK AT ME but if it gets people to donate I'm all for it.

 
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leftcoastguy7 said:
Definitely. I agree with Judge Smails. I like to think I'd be strong enough to deal with whatever comes my way, but I'm sure I'd be jumping off a bridge or something with this disease. So terrible. 

Only 1 out of 50,000 people in the US get this disease. Talk about a bad beat.
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Steve Gleason said the same thing and the doctor revisited with him before a life saving surgery. Not sure I would want to continue to live, but I could see me trying for my young daughter. If she was an adult? No way.

 
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Steve Gleason said the same thing and the doctor revisited with him before a life saving surgery. Not sure I would want to continue to live, but I could see me trying for my young daughter. If she was an adult? No way.
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yeah, clearly you need to have something to motivate you.  And he's lucky that he has the resources that he does to make his life "easier" than the normal ALS patient.  I can't remember if it's touched on in the movie or not, but his foundation raises money to make further the technologies and make it easier for ALS patients to have greater access to them in order to make their lives as "normal" as possible.

 
I made it 10 minutes and I had to turn it off.  Will start back up tonight.  

The opening scene were he is talking to his unborn son and you can hear the starting affects of ALS got me.

 
Got 10 minutes left and this is flooring me.  I am a big pearl jam fan and seen the whole interview of that a while ago.  

This is what life is about, he get by with above average resources and he knows this and fights for more, not for him, but for people with less in the same situation.  Much respect, much love, to all that need help.  Greed rules this world but if I am ever in a place to help people, this is where I would help.

 
The part in the bedroom where he is asking why she is ignoring him is so raw and true.  No matter how much you take care of someone you have your limits, and he noticed that.  She is just spent, doing everything she can to help the next day.  It is too much for one person to take on, so sad.

 
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