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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 next level would be the guys like Kevin Everrett, Pete Utley, and co. that broke their necks.

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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I was going for 'cringe factor' orginally.

In the way that you're judging the the Earnhardt injury, I'd say Greg Moore has him beat. I thought Earnhardt would be okay. I knew Greg Moore was dead the instantly.

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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 next level would be the guys like Kevin Everrett, Pete Utley, and co. that broke their necks.

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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I was going for 'cringe factor' orginally.

In the way that you're judging the the Earnhardt injury, I'd say Greg Moore has him beat. I thought Earnhardt would be okay. I knew Greg Moore was dead the instantly.

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Ugh, it took me years to find a clip of that. Geoff Bodine at Daytona is pretty gross too.

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ayrton senna got a piece of debris through the head.

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ayrton senna got a piece of debris through the head.

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Indy car/F1 wrecks are the worst. Anything where you can see body parts you shouldn't see. Kenny Brack, Stan Fox, Alex Zanardi.

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You just made the argument for McCallum's being worse. Theismann's injury is all about hype and the players involved, the injury itself doesn't stand up to McCallum's without all the external factors.

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McCallum's was about a joint bending the wrong direction.
Theismann's was about a leg bending where there was no joint.

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McCallum tore 3 ligaments in his knee, tore his hamstring and calf from the bones and ruptured an artery.

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I was at the Greg Moore race. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

The absolute two worst automobile crashes are Tom Pryce and Gordon Smiley, and I'm not even looking those up. Just so bad.

Pryce's is a little different. Smiley's is just gruesome.

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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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Does this count? I think he bruised his kidney.


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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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Malarchuk has to be way up there. Just awful.

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Theismann and Dravecky were really terrible, but they aren't even close to this. I hate blood.