“60 MINUTES” LISTINGS FOR SUNDAY, NOV. 18
A DOSE OF HOPE
– Few drugs can provide the results Naloxone often has on opioid
overdose victims. The drug has become known as a life-saving weapon in
America’s opioid crisis. Lesley Stahl reports. Shachar Bar-On and
Natalie Jimenez Peel are the producers.
A DOSE OF GREED
– Naloxone has been around for decades and is not expensive to produce.
Lesley Stahl investigates the wide variations in its pricing as demand
increases in the opioid crisis. Shachar Bar-On is the producer.
TIM GREEN
– The former NFL player and bestselling author reveals he is suffering
from ALS. Steve Kroft reports. Draggan Mihailovich is the producer.
11.16.2018
FORMER NFL PLAYER AND BEST-SELLING AUTHOR TIM
GREEN APPEARS IN HIS FIRST INTERVIEW SINCE REVEALING HE HAS ALS, ON “60
MINUTES” THIS SUNDAY
The Former Falcons Player Tells Steve Kroft His NFL Career Was
“Magical and Wonderful,” Despite His Belief Football Caused His Illness
Tim Green, the former NFL player and sports commentator, talks to Steve
Kroft about his life since he was diagnosed with ALS. Green, a one-time
defensive standout for the Atlanta Falcons and now a bestselling
author, will speak in his first interview since revealing his illness on
the next edition of 60 MINUTES, Sunday, Nov. 18 (7:00-8:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.
Green has been silent about his disease for over two years. He is going
public now, as his symptoms become more pronounced. Green tells Kroft
he was diagnosed in the summer of 2016 with the incurable disease
forever linked to Lou Gehrig, when his fingers and hands became
affected. “I went to see some great hand surgeon. And he looked and he
said, ‘I think you have ALS.’ I said. ‘No, I don’t.’” The same day, he
went to a neurologist, who he says told him “Get your affairs in order.”
Green believes his amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is strongly linked to
his football career; he was a star lineman at Syracuse and played
linebacker and defensive end in the NFL for Atlanta. “I used my head on
every play, every play. Every snap. It was like throwing myself head
first into a concrete wall,” says Green.
He is the author of dozens of fiction and nonfiction books. Green
appeared on 60 MINUTES in 1996 for his first nonfiction effort, The Dark Side of the Game.
He spoke to Kroft then about his time in the NFL, and even alluded to
the possibility the game could take 20 years off his life. Asked now
about that prediction, he replies, “I’ve maybe taken that much off the
end of my life. Maybe more. I don’t know,” he tells Kroft.
But asked whether he regrets his career now that he has ALS, he
emphatically says “No… It was as magical and wonderful as I dreamed it
would be.”
Kroft and 60 MINUTES cameras spent time with Green at his home in
Skaneateles, N.Y., in New York State’s Finger Lakes region. His son,
Troy, and wife, Illyssa, are also interviewed.
He takes medication to slow down the progression of the disease, but he
is steadily losing the ability to use his muscles. He remains upbeat
and points to his wonderful life and family. And there’s always his
writing. He is working on his 39th book using technology to
overcome the limits ALS has imposed on him. It’s slower going this time,
and he says he missed a deadline for the first time. “I apologized to
my editor,” he tells Kroft, who quips, “I think your editor
understands.”
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