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Where's LT ending Theisman's career?

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Not even the worst ever on MNF. McCallum's was really brutal.

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Ugh that is still the very first image that comes to mind when I hear "sports injury."

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Henrik Larson braeking his tibia by planting his foot is one of the worst i've ever seen video of [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

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I was going to mention this one and Zanardi. Both are just terrible.

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McGahee was bad because live in real time it didn't look like he was injured, he just got tackled. Then he stays down and Keith Jackson is like "let's see if we can tell how he got injured..." then they showed the replay in slow motion one time, and only one time.

Side note: Will Allen (the CB for OSU who's helmet hit McGahee's knee) went into the UM locker room immediately after the game, forgoing much of the championship celebration on the field, to check on McGahee and apologize.

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Bryce Florie eating a line drive right in his eye

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Gilles Villeneuve

His crash is awful, you can see him being flung out of the car into a fence

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I've never seen this one. I hadn't even heard that he was tossed from the car. That would be horrific.

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Side note: Will Allen (the CB for OSU who's helmet hit McGahee's knee) went into the UM locker room immediately after the game, forgoing much of the championship celebration on the field, to check on McGahee and apologize.

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Never heard of that. A+ to him.

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Boxers have died either in the ring, or shortly after as a direct result from a series of blows to the head.

Pretty sure that is worse than Theismann breaking his leg and this other nonsense listed.

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prohorn,

i shot a man in reno just to watch him die.

what's your point?

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Junior Seau breaking his arm was pretty gross last year. they zoomed in on that too. so gross.

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Tim Krumrie breaking his leg in the Super Bowl was pretty ugly. If I remember right, SI had a picture showing his leg turned up at the shin.

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i watched game on friday night, but purposely didn't watch replay. i guess i will now.

theisman though is in another galaxy from anything else i've seen.... that moment and john lennon death announcement are probably MNF moments that all older people remember.

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Kevin Stevens getting knocked out mid air and hitting the ice face first was pretty gruesome.

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Where's LT ending Theisman's career?

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And Dave Dravecky.

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Or Sabres' goalie Clint Malarchuk's sliced jugular vein in '89.

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Robin Ventura was the first thought for me.

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Because if you are talking about seeing it on TV when it happened, the guy is still on the ground, and people in the stands are shocked/crying, nothing beats Theismann's injury. Hell, even LT was going apesh!t yelling for the trainers to get to him quick.


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Apparently LT was doing this because he was claustrophobic and couldn't stand being at the bottom of the pile.

I remember seeing a special on Malarchuk and just squirming in my seat the whole time.

Allan Ray is a really good one, I read that in the thread, wondered what he was talking about than remembered it and shook.

Bryan Berrard is one I saw live, which was pretty bad, lots of blood.

I was also at a game where Trent Mcleary took a slapshot to the throat IIRC he lost his speech and there were stories saying stuff like if he got hit on the other side of the ice he might not have lived (these are most likely sensationalist, but still loosesly based on fact.

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This one is pretty bad:

MMA leg break
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIfbwIqrBho

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This one is pretty bad:

MMA leg break
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIfbwIqrBho

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Is it that Bodog girl? I refuse to click.

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I was also at a game where Trent Mcleary took a slapshot to the throat IIRC he lost his speech and there were stories saying stuff like if he got hit on the other side of the ice he might not have lived

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What does this mean?

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This one is pretty bad:

MMA leg break
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIfbwIqrBho

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No

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Further from the bench maybe so it would have taken trainers longer to get to him? I don't know, that's all I can think of.

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IT was a long time ago, but from what I remember there was a doctor who specialized in such things sitting in the crowd near Malarchuk.

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IT was a long time ago, but from what I remember there was a doctor who specialized in such things sitting in the crowd near Malarchuk.

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I think the confusion is surrounding a comment about McCleary being lucky.

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I was also at a game where Trent Mcleary took a slapshot to the throat IIRC he lost his speech and there were stories saying stuff like if he got hit on the other side of the ice he might not have lived

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The play occured near the benches where the doctors could get to him - had it occured farther away, he might have died.

I thought I remembered McCleary coming back after that but I guess he didn't.

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The Malarchuk thing is completely unwatchable. Jesus Christ I can't believe he lived.

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The Malarchuk thing is completely unwatchable. Jesus Christ I can't believe he lived.

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I think the only reason he did was because the trainer had Vietnam experience and knew how to temporarily pinch the jugular.

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Thank god for the trainers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_138p6uzhUk

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Marlachuk is easily the worst.

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I'd never seen Marlachuk's, I couldn't watch it again.

One of the worst in terms of 'cringe factor' the first time see is the Beltran-Cameron collision from 2 years ago. As a Met fan, I'm pretty sure I suppressed an urge to throw up when I saw the replays.
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Seles getting shived?

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Thank god for the trainers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_138p6uzhUk

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hahahaha

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I'd never seen Marlachuk's, I couldn't watch it again.

One of the worst in terms of 'cringe factor' the first time see is the Beltran-Cameron collision from 2 years ago. As a Met fan, I'm pretty sure I suppressed an urge to throw up when I saw the replays.
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I was at that game in San Diego. I was in the 2nd row on the first base side so I was probably about 150 away from them when it happened. I was looking right at them through binoculars when they collided, too. The shear speed they were both moving at was incredible.

Also, I remember that McCallum injury vividly. I never had any problems with watching injuries before (and I saw Theismann and Krumrie live), but ever since the McCallum injury I have to look away at any injury in any game. That was unbelievably disgusting.

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Wait, are we talking about actual injury severity, or witnessing it on TV? If you are talking about injury severity, Dale Eardhart wins since he was killed. Then the necks level would be the guys like Kevin Everrett, Pete Utley, and co.



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Well, severity of injury is not the same as gruesomeness. A lot of the paralyzing neck hits are completely innocuous looking.