Sportshour

Former Miami Dolphins tight end Dan Johnson tells us he has taken more painkillers than any other player in the history of the game, he took so many he earned the nickname “King of Pain”. He played in the 1984 Superbowl, catching a touchdown pass from the great Dan Marino, but the effects of a career on painkillers left him bed ridden for many years. Things got so bad that he considered suicide, Dan tells us that despite the problems he suffered he still finds it hard to say that it wasn’t worth it. We’re also joined by Jiri Dvorak, FIFA’s former Chief Medical officer and File on 4’s Beth McLeod who has been investigating the effects of painkillers in sportThe Legend of Nello Ferrara The Stanley Cup is ongoing at the moment, but Nello Ferrara doesn’t need to win ice hockey’s biggest prize to become famous. Ferrara lied his way to a 10 year professional career, he posed as his own agent “Nelli Lechance” to convince teams to sign him and snuck into the training sessions of an NHL team in the hope of being signe