Stroke victims sometimes comprehend more than they can convey to others that they comprehend. His family might be banking on that. After all, he apparently still has interest in watching the Packers even if he can't convey to others why he does. Just because he can't explain to others who Lombardi is, or what he, Starr, was to GB doesn't necessarily mean he doesn't comprehend more completely in his own mind. Sometime, the connection between understanding and communicating just doesn't work.

Too bad. At 81 he still could have had some good years left. Are all the blows to the head players took in those days partly responsible?

Sur would have been nice to see Starr, Favre and Rodgers shooting the bull about playing QB in the NFL.