Greg Nosal looses fingertip during game, keeps playing

[Bukefal]

Greg Nosal, the Virginia Tech left guard, has earned himself a chapter in the lore of football tough guys after Saturday's win over Central Michigan. The junior lost the tip of his pinky at some point in the game, and kept playing.

According to the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Nosal's finger got stuck between two helmets, severing it from the middle of the fingernail up. The missing piece was found inside Nosal's glove.

Nosal wanted to keep playing after the injury was discovered, and the staff dressed the wound and gave him pain medication. The tip of the finger was kept on ice until the end of the third quarter, when Nosal was forced to leave to get it re-attached.

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Virginia Tech left guard Greg Nosal earned tough-guy points on Saturday, postponing the reattachment of a torn-off tip of his left pinkie to keep playing.

The school says Nosal lost the finger tip when it got caught between two helmets in the first half Saturday against Central Michigan. After a brief search, team doctors found the severed finger tip inside his glove and determined that it could be reattached.

Team surgeon Mark Seigel gave the 6-foot-6, 293-pound redshirt junior the option of having the finger repaired on the spot, or having the hand bandaged and the tip put on ice to be reattached later. He chose to keep playing, took pain medication and went back in.

The finger tip was s ched back on in the fourth quarter, after the pain medication had started to wear off. The Hokies led 31-7 and were subs uting liberally in a 45-21 victory.

"You talk about a tough guy," Hokies coach Frank Beamer said Monday. "For him to continue to play, it says a lot about him and what his effort for this football team is."

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[DesignatedT]

that guy is a badass.

[LoneStarState'sPride]

Holy crap, that's a man right there!