Bernie Kosar’s liver transplant is imminent, and his emotions are coming in waves, like Denver Broncos blitzers during an AFC Championship Game.

The beloved former Cleveland Browns quarterback, 61, has been on the transplant list for more than a year. As the surgery nears, he’s caught between anticipation and anxiety, not to mention the tragedy involved for it to take place, a thought he prefers remain unspoken.

Besides cirrhosis that is prompting a full liver transplant at University Hospitals, Kosar is battling what he calls “early-stage Parkinson’s or Parkinsonian symptoms and early-stage dementia.”

“You’re cognitively and physically not capable. You’re being asked to do things by people that healthy, normal people would have a hard time doing, let alone someone who’s got to go throu

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