
SAINT-DENIS, France — Over 16 NFL seasons and 161 regular-season games, Randall Cunningham understood that job-related pain was inevitable. He played through more than his share. But over the course of the last six months, he saw in his daughter, Vashti, an even higher tolerance and willingness to compete with pain.
“People don’t know, she’s nursed this bulging disc in her back,” he said Friday, “for about half of this [track] season.”