2025-10-20

Stautner nearly died from doctor's injection error

Steelers legend Ernie Stautner nearly died in 1958 when the team doctor accidentally injected him with twenty-four times the recommended dose of Demerol instead of a local anesthetic before a game in Cleveland. A priest administered last rites as Stautner lay unconscious, but he…

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