And what happened in the final minutes of the Minnesota game last Sunday proved just that.
He had been admitted the day after coming down with a fever just hours before the Minnesota game on Jan. 9.
In 1934, Simmons was knocked out of the Minnesota game three times due to injuries.
He came back in the Minnesota game but was injured again, with a dislocated ankle tendon, and did not play the rest of the season.
It started during the Minnesota game last year.
"We didn't want the Houston game to be like the Minnesota game."
In 1986, after the Minnesota game, nobody played with us.
But there is no way to explain away the Minnesota game.
He returned a 97-yard kickoff for touchdown in the Minnesota game on September 18, 2010.
Both were prohibited from attending Minnesota games or practices this season.