Sunday Firesides: Walk It Off

“Walk it off.”

If today a football coach said this to a player who’d just taken a hit, he might be criticized for evincing the kind of “toxic,” tough-guy approach that pays insufficient attention to an athlete’s health and feelings.

A shame, because there’s much wisdom to be found in this old-school maxim — both on and off the field.

Certainly, if an athle…