Very few professional athletes are best remembered for the game, or the play, that ended their career. But Joe Theismann maybe one of them.

It was on this date, November 18th, 1985 -- 35 years ago --  that Joe Theismann sustained a gruesome, career-ending injury before a national TV audience.

I met him two years later, after he had written a book about his football career an d the play that ended it..