Jason Wolf

jwolf@tennessean.com

Former Titans tight end Frank Wycheck, the color analyst for game day radio broadcasts on 104.5-FM, returned to the airwaves Tuesday after missing this weekend’s game against the Chargers in San Diego because of a concussion suffered in a fall at his home Friday, he told The Tennessean.

Wycheck said he was standing on the ledge of his bathtub to put folded towels away on a high shelf when he slipped and slammed his head on the bathroom floor.

“I live by myself and sometimes you tend to think you’re Superman and try to get things done without great measures of safety,” Wycheck told The Tennessean, “and then you fall and you lose your balance and you feel like an idiot. I pretty much have my Ph.D. in concussions for the most part and the symptoms, and I knew I had to get myself to a hospital.”

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Wycheck also missed The Tennessean’s “Nashville Storytellers” event on Monday night revisiting the Music City Miracle. Wycheck, who sparked the most famous play in team history with his cross-field lateral to Kevin Dyson in a first-round playoff victory against the Bills on Jan. 8, 2000, was to be a featured speaker.

He said he drove himself to the hospital on Friday.

“I didn’t get totally knocked out, but I felt a little fuzzy. I wouldn’t risk myself or anyone else if I felt like I really couldn’t do it,” Wycheck said. “They probably would have kept me overnight as long as they could for observation. I got a CAT scan, a brain scan, and it came back negative. But I knew I had a pretty bad headache and all I needed to do was just get home and rest, because I’ve been through all this before.

“I hardly remember speaking to the medical people, but I kind of told them that there was really no need for me to stay because I’ve been through this like millions of times.”

Wycheck has estimated he had 15 to 25 concussions throughout his playing career, from 1993 to 2003, and has had several concussions since then.

“I had an incident diving into the pool, in the shallow end, a couple years ago that wasn’t great and fell a few times,” Wycheck said.

He has said he suffers from migraines, memory loss and depression.

Wycheck expressed remorse about missing Sunday’s game.

“I know that was tough for a lot of people because a lot goes into a Titans Radio broadcast and for the color analyst to not be there definitely throws a monkey wrench in it, and I felt like I let those guys down,” Wycheck said. “That’s just my personality. And I felt the same way with the event on Monday night. I was just too cloudy and I was worried about vertigo and just craziness and I didn’t feel like I could do the event right.”

Wycheck is scheduled to take part in broadcasting the Titans’ game against the Packers on Sunday at Nissan Stadium, alongside play-by-play man Mike Keith, host Rhett Bryan and sideline reporter Jonathan Hutton.

He resumed his daily role on 104.5-FM’s “Wake Up Zone” morning show, with Mark Howard and Kevin Ingram, on Tuesday.

“I feel better,” Wycheck said. “I didn’t have the best day on the radio today, but I just felt I needed to get back to work.”

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