Worst Sports injuries

[SWC Bonfire]

Good call. There was also that one outfielder in the Naked Gun that got attacked by the tiger.

Don't forget the fat chick falling on Reggie.

[sa_butta]

http://www.big-boys.com/articles/rugbyhits.html

[SWC Bonfire]

I am a big time football fan. From October to January my Sundays and Monday nights are booked solid. I always thought football was the roughest sport (just check out my injury prone fantasy team by Week 6). I got to give credit though to these Rugby guys. No pads, no helmets, but the same crushing blows.

Unmitigated violence. I miss rugby.

Actually, BECAUSE you don't have helmets and pads, the hits are not as "crushing" as they would be in a football game - no hard materials, etc. It hurts you, too, you know?

[Marklar MM]

Here is Prothro's injury.

[CosmicCowboy]

I went to school with a guy who broke his femur playing basketball, but not that bad. Too bad for him; he fractured it again and it destroyed his BB career at that point. I think his little brother plays for Tech now, though.

That had to have been a life threatening injury, CC - merely breaking your femur is bad enough.

It was a good news/bad news kind of thing...the break was fairly clean so it didn't cut everything up and compound...but still had a lot of internal bleeding...the bad news was that I had to be in traction for 8 weeks just to pull the bone back out far enough so they could set it...my left leg was like 4" shorter than my right leg at first...We finally gave up on getting it perfectly straight and the femur still has a slight "bend" in it...but it healed well enough that I was able to go on and play contact sports in high school and college...