#1 it's a thinner, lower viscosity formula. same "polar bonding molecules", same corrosion protection, dielectric characteristic), but it's different than regular CorrosionX in two ways. ''I don`t think he wants to lose our respect, so he`s working at it."ReelX is the same technology (i.e. ''He needs us as much as we need him,'' Lonzell says of his father. But I have to be strong and draw from the strength of my family.'' What effect his revelation of drug use would have on his employers also was one of the factors he weighed before deciding to open up about his past problems. Hill now works as vice president of marketing and public relations for a mortgage and insurance company in California. But he was lazy, didn`t do his job, and Plank was around to nail me after I ran three yards underneath with my assignment.'' I`m still mad at the guy on the Lions who was supposed to run a deep route to take Plank out of my territory. ''I was out for the season and struggled with the knee until I retired,'' he says. Bears free safety Doug Plank shattered Hill`s knee with a patented bone-crushing tackle. The beginning of the end of Hill`s career came at Soldier Field in the first game of the 1976 season. But the lack of passing was a waste of my talent.'' With O.J., we didn`t throw it very much, and so the receiver had to do something. Make sure you say I smiled when I said that,'' he says. I didn`t want to accept the responsibility of getting married.'' He still had his glory days ahead at Arizona State before the Bills turned him into ''the best blocking wide receiver who maybe ever played. Having a son out of wedlock was the wrong thing for me to do. ''I was so young when he was born, it has been like having a little brother along with a son,'' Hill says. Hill has five sons, but Lonzell was born when Hill was 16 years old, and he retains a special affection for him. I like the idea of having drug tests, so I can show everyone I`m clean and intend to stay that way.'' When I get back home now, I see friends on drugs, in jail. And in my neighborhood in Stockton, Calif., I could have been doing it. ''I never have taken drugs or seen anyone take them. I asked if there was anything I could do to get him away from cocaine. I didn`t say, `I hate you.` Instead, his faith in me to talk about it made me want to help. ''When he called me from a rehab center and told me about what was happening, it was a shock. I would just say to myself, `Pop`s tired, that`s all.` ''So I looked for every excuse but drugs to explain why he wasn`t coming to my games and wasn`t around as much. I was around all these guys with the Bills. He was always involved in my life, and suddenly that ended. ''I`d be looking for him at my high school games, and he never came,''Įxplains Lonzell, a baseball and football star in high school. I became a coke-head Christian.'' Hill lost more than money in his downward spiral. But an acceptance of the Lord doesn`t mean your problems disappear. I thought that was the way out of my addiction. ''In 1982, I turned to God and became a committed Christian. I want to talk about my future, not my past.` They always wanted to talk about what I did in my childhood, and I wanted to say: `Hey, just get me off this stuff. You need a support system, and they didn`t provide that for me. They are good as places to rest, and that`s about it. ''I went into a rehabilitation center right away, the first of two times I tried that. is on cocaine.` My family tried to help me from that point, but it wasn`t that easy to stop,'' Hill says. ''My high school coach, Charles Washington, came to my wife in that first year (1981) and told her, `I don`t want to believe this, but I`m hearing J.D. It took him a long time to quit even after he acknowledged a problem existed. The last time he took the drug, he says, was February of last year. He spent an estimated $30,000 on cocaine in the next five years. Hill`s lifestyle began to change after that night. The only reason it stopped then was there was no more cocaine.'' ''That first time, I began free-basing about 9 o`clock at night and it lasted until 6 o`clock the next morning. I said, `That looks like something that will kill you.` Once I gave in and tried it, I knew I was going to do it twice. `No.` I had snorted coke once before and never done it again, decided it wasn`t my thing. Don`t be a square.` I didn`t want it and said, I was in a setting with other people where I was told: `Try it. It was 1981 and it was with another retired NFL player. ''I remember well the first time I did (free-based) coke. I should be able to come and go as I pleased, like I always had, and do what I pleased. I still thought I should be as recognized as I was when I played. It was an enormous change, and I wasn`t ready. Most of the problems stemmed from not having a grasp of my identity.
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