The Hall of Famer lives with bipolarism and didn’t learn to read until he was in college. Now his mission is to ‘help kids who are powerless.’
Daryl Johnston, a former Cowboy fullback turned Fox Sports broadcaster, echoed that, adding that Haley was one of the smartest players to grace the field. Pro Football Hall of Famer and former Dallas Cowboys player Charles Haley poses with legends and his board during the A Night with Legends Charity Dinner to benefit Haley's Tackle Tomorrow nonprofit on Sept. 12 in Frisco.
That total eclipsed Haley’s most optimistic predictions. “We estimated it would gross $500,000, and we smashed past that,” he said. “I’m thankful to God that he gave us his blessings.” “You can tell when he hasn’t taken his medicine,” Moon said, making a light-hearted comment about a well-known truth.Haley made headlines when he smashed his helmet through a concrete wall in the Cowboys locker room after the team lost its first two games of the 1993 season. He was angry that the Cowboys hadn’t signed hold-out Emmitt Smith. Haley’s temper tantrum reportedly “persuaded” owner Jerry Jones to come to terms with the star running back.
“It wasn’t until a couple of years ago that he apologized for breaking my damn finger. It’s a great story, but it still hurts.” “Those guys [on the field] knew what they were getting. I knew what I was going to get when I got home. I went out there, and that was the last time I sat on anybody’s bench.”“The 49ers wanted me to be a leader,” he said. “When I came here, I became one.”When he entered James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Va., testing showed that he was reading three levels below its entry level.
Haley says his proudest achievement isn’t any of his five Super Bowl rings. It’s his college diploma.He learned after his football days and after several bouts with drug and alcohol abuse that his lifelong severe mood swings were the result of bipolar disorder.“But when I saw the fear and anger in my kids and my family’s eyes, it made me go get treatment,” Haley said. “I went to a dual diagnosis center where they treated both the mental illness and the drug and alcohol addiction.
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