So "a while" = approximately one day?

Not that this isn't something worth noting.

That's good news.

I wonder whether I should be as reluctant to watch football as I am boxing, for fear of seeing a man die in the cause of my entertainment. The slow crippling of backs and linemen is not the only worry.

The ascendancy of Tom Brady in the 2001 season followed Drew Bledsoe's exit from a game with a lung punctured by broken ribs and collapsed. During the 2005 season, one player was knocked out of a game with what turned out later to be a bruised aorta, which seemed at the time and seems now to be uncomfortably close to a killing wound. Last year, Chris Sims suffered a ruptured (and ultimately removed) spleen.

See, football isn't such a brutal sport !

man, that's great news.

means his coach will probably start him next game.

Drew Bledsoe's exit from a game with a lung punctured by broken ribs

I thought it wasn't a punctured lung, but a sheared blood vessel in his chest.

See? 's fine. Cue Hank Williams!

Shoot him up with cortisone and put him in the next game!

marcus, how do you get pwned by a 3 hour old comment in an 8 comment thread?

You read the comments, Sifu? That makes you unique among Unfogged commenters.

It wasn't easy! But I pulled it off!

marcus got hit really hard in the opening game, Tweets. Walt, too. Just let them be.

Plus I'm drunk! All comments will have exclamation points this evening!

On a Tuesday night?

Does that make me an alcoholic?

I'm eating Cap'n Crunch. This stuff is like crack.

I was just thinking the same thing about this here vegetarian General Tso's. Some VGT is terrible. This is like crack.

I heard they put 'im on ice right after the injury. Smart.

Everything is like crack, if you have the right attitude. Or so the Buddha says.

Something is wrong with this photo.

Aw, geez, apo. I didn't want to see that. And for entirely different reasons than I generally didn't want to see the things you link to. (Totally SFW, but disturbing as all get out.)

Oh, he's injured. I thought he was just very flexible.

Maybe just flexible? That was what I found so disturbing -- having to look at the picture for a while before I realized that there was one seriously fucked up ankle there. I kept on trying to make it anatomically possible. But maybe I was wrong and he's okay.

No, he's definitely injured (just looked it up).

Quote from the article accompanying the photo: "I looked at his foot, and I didn't need to look at it anymore."

Indeed.