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Sunday, 23 December 2007, 18:00 GMT

Injured Bills player walks again

Everett at the December game and after his injury Kevin Everett has been able to watch his Buffalo Bills team-mates in action less than four months after suffering a life-threatening spinal cord injury.

The tight end was paralysed from the neck down after he was hurt in a tackle in the season opener on 9 September.

He is now walking under his own power and addressed team-mates two hours before the game against the Giants.

A spokesman the hospital that treated him said: "What a great testament for our nurses and doctors seeing him."



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