Is it Karmic Payback or Something Else?

Yesterday, it was reported that Darryl Stingley, a former wide receiver for the New England Patriots, recently passed on at 55. Stingley was paralyzed from the neck down during a preseason game in 1978 after a head-on collision with Jack Tatum, a safety for the Raiders best known for his vicious hits on opponents, including one Frenchy Fuqua that enabled the legend in Pittsburgh known as the Immaculate Reception.
Stingley and Tatum never reconciled. They came close in the late 90s, but when Stingley heard it was part of a publicity campaign for Tatum's third book, he backed out. Rightly, I think.

But the strange irony of it all is that Jack Tatum has had five amputations to his left leg, though all below the knee, due to complications of diabetes and almost lost his right leg due to arterial blockage.