Worst Injuries you have ever seen

[Chachi King]

Originally posted by wu-tang beez
Aside from the wrestler Sid Viscious snapping his Tibia like a toothpick and colapsing on the mat in what had to be pure agony, the worst I was involved in personally was my senior yr while playing American Foorball. Our QB was running a bootleg pass and was blind sided by a defensive back. He went down in a heep & didn't cry. We didn't see anything but his arm was immobile. When we watched the tape the next day, we saw his arm swing back & forth like his elbow was made of spaghetti. Disgusting! So we had to rewind it a few dozens times or so.

I was just thinking about the Sid Vicious injury. How did they work that into the script for that match? There was no way in hell they could have pulled off him winning.

[Treetaliano]

I've got one that happened to me. It wasn't "gruesome" per se', but it hurt like hell. Thing is it's also damn funny. (now anyways)

In college (UNC-Charlotte) , I was playing in a rainy match vs South Florida (Jeff Cunningham was on the field, yes) and i had the ball on the right wing and was cutting in towards the center of the field.

Their central defender comes at me to make a challenge and not having an open pass, I turned around and started to look for a back pass.

As I did this, the defender did a tackle from behind and as it was really a poorly done tackle he neither got me nor the ball, kind of knocked me off balance so I went after the ball which I had lost and at a full sprint, I got stumbled again and while trying to keep my balance I tried to lunge at the ball to toe poke it to my left mid who was making a run up the side.

So going into this slide/toe poke maneuvover, my cleat digs into the grass and and just pops my knee cap right out and it goes up into my thight. Immediate pain, but to make matter worse, as a natural reaction I guess, I tried to throw my weight off of the leg and I some how manage to basically sit on my cleats while still sliding. There's no real nice way to say it, so basically a few of my cleats went right up my a$$ and ..umm...lets just say there was a lot of blood.

Im not sure which hurt worse. Anyways I missed the rest of the season, and we ended up going to the Final Four that year. Some luck eh?

[appoo]

I remember my freshman year of college (1998) Freddie Mitchell, a frosh WR at UCLA at the time, broke his leg. It looked his leg was made of the same stuff gumby was made of the way it was flapping around. I mean it was literally waving liek a flag. Eww

[Chesco United]

The worst injury I've ever seen in any sport was when Buffalo Sabres (NHL) goaltender Clint Malarchuk had his throat cut in about 1990 or so. IIRC, there was a scramble in front of his goal. Someone must have skated over his throat in the melee. After the whistle blew, he looked calm for a second or so, then I remember seeing a look of sheer terror on his face. He threw off his equipment as a large pool of blood descended from his throat to the ice. Amazingly, thanks to quick medical attention, they were able to save his life, and he was back playing soon after. Dave Busst's injury was the worst soccer injury I ever saw.

[Cascarino's Pizzeria]

NHL mayhem ranks high up there.

Bryan Berard nearly lost an eye when he took a high stick. Still has trouble seeing out of it.

A college hockey player got checked head first into the boards and was paralyzed. I think he played for Vermont.

Tony Twist punched Rob Ray so hard that he broke his orbital bone. That's not an easy thing to do.

[BrianCappellieri]

In person, in one of my HS matches, a guy collided with the post and has since been suffering from brain damage.

Manny Lagos blowing out his knee back when he played for the Metros. Showed numerous replays of it on Telemundo, absolutely disgusting.

Video of a fan getting kicked down bleachers in a J-League match.

Henrik Larsson's famous injury...

Non-soccer but one of the worst I've ever seen. On a show called "You gotta belive this!" two people arm wrestling and one guy's arm shatters. :( Very disturbing.

[Boro_lad]

Originally posted by BrianCappellieri

Non-soccer but one of the worst I've ever seen. On a show called "You gotta belive this!" two people arm wrestling and one guy's arm shatters. :( Very disturbing.

i saw that...it is fu©king awful....

[CrewDust]

Tim Krumrie snapping his ankle in the 89 Super Bowl, and the replayed about 50 times. Another was a Tight End for Kentucky in a bowl game dislocate his elbow, his arm was pointing the wrong way. I remember it hapening live and then the announcers who must have not seen it keep asking for the replay but it wouldn't replay it so they went to commercial and when they came back the announcers thanked the guys in the trunk for not replaying it.

[wu-tang beez]

How about Napolean McAllen(riaders rb) having his knee reversed by a late Ken Norton(49ers lb) hit on Monday Night Football. It ended his career.

Worst individual pain of all time occured when a player retliated against me in football. He intercepted a ball and I was running a crossing route. Needless to say, I was in position to clean his clock. I prob outweighed him by 40 or 50lbs and had a good running shot. I knocked him out cold. I thought little of it, but he had time to plot. Later after the half, I was running the pt man in a punt return. Since my responsibility was to set up the wall, I took my eyes off what was in front of me 4 half a second to check the alignment. I looked back & out of the corner of my eye I saw the same kid doing a giant Ryu from street fighter style upper cut to my jewels. My coach saw what happened and jumped on me so I couldn't pound the punk. Then 5 seconds later, it hit me. I can describe no pain more intense. All I can say is that my boys were swollen for a week. I bought a cup the next day.

[babytiger2001]

Originally posted by FWSCKEEPER
Remember the LT tackle on Theisman, and the snap of the leg. I still can't watch that .

Neither can I. I even remember hearing the "crack" over the field microphones-- as I was listening to the game on radio while walking home from class back then.

A close second was when Manny Lagos did his knee while playing for the MetroStars against LA (I think) back in 1996, as Brian said. Even Tommy Smyth, working Metros TV on MSG, said it was the worst injury he's ever seen on a soccer pitch.

And seeing how well Manny played for San Jose last year, thank goodness he was able to recover in due time from a horrific injury like that, and still be able to play at a high level.

Cheers,
William

[usscouse]

I went down a players feet just as he was turning for his shot on goal. I got the ball in both hands and took it off his toe, then stopped his boot with my cheekbone, just below the right eye.
Now that makes your eyes water…:)

No subs back in those days either so as soon as I could count the coaches 15 fingers I went back on.
Well just for 15 minutes, then I had someone drive me to hospital I had 4 breaks in the bone and my vision was getting bad.

But I healed fine healed fine healed fine healed fine healed fine

[helmzgk]

Originally posted by Fender playa


did you get a hearing aid or it healed in time?

Cause something simmiler happened to my friend and needs a hearing aid the rest of his life!

it healed in time, but there's a lot of scar tissue behind my ear and on the back of it. Doc's say there's a little bit of scarring inside, but i can still hear fine.


usscouse-from the post above, that had to hurt, but that's why were goalkeepers right!

[usscouse]

Originally posted by helmzgk


it healed in time, but there's a lot of scar tissue behind my ear and on the back of it. Doc's say there's a little bit of scarring inside, but i can still hear fine.


usscouse-from the post above, that had to hurt, but that's why were goalkeepers right!
Right..!
Glad to hear you're fine after that.

What is it with goalies..? (No, don't answer that..!)

I wanted to be a goalie after I watched an English Cup Final from Wembley. Man City were playing (I forget who) but 20 minutes from the final whistle Bert Trautman, Cities goalie went out and down hard for a 50/50 ball.
After the game he went for an x-ray and his NECK was BROKEN.
He made a full recovery but it was a close thing according to his doctors. They said when he was asked “did they win?” He nodded, if they’d had lost, a shake would have killed him.

Two things came from that. The move to start substitutes ‘for goalies’
And a strange request for Trautman to be naturalized, so he could play for England. It just wasn’t done in those days.
Bert was a German POW who stayed on in England after WWII

[Preston McMurry]

Originally posted by Chachi King


I was just thinking about the Sid Vicious injury. How did they work that into the script for that match? There was no way in hell they could have pulled off him winning.

Scott Steiner took one weak 'kick' at Sid, then pinned him.

[Preston McMurry]

Originally posted by Chesco United
The worst injury I've ever seen in any sport was when Buffalo Sabres (NHL) goaltender Clint Malarchuk had his throat cut in about 1990 or so. IIRC, there was a scramble in front of his goal. Someone must have skated over his throat in the melee. After the whistle blew, he looked calm for a second or so, then I remember seeing a look of sheer terror on his face. He threw off his equipment as a large pool of blood descended from his throat to the ice. Amazingly, thanks to quick medical attention, they were able to save his life, and he was back playing soon after. Dave Busst's injury was the worst soccer injury I ever saw.

An (accidental) skate across the throat is exactly what happened. Btw, Malarchuk got up and skated off the ice under his own power, and was out of the hospital (with a jillion stitches) the next day. The skate opened an artery. It was the most potentially deadly injury I've seen, other than in horse racing or motorsports, but not the grossest ...

[Preston McMurry]

Originally posted by BrianCappellieri
Non-soccer but one of the worst I've ever seen. On a show called "You gotta belive this!" two people arm wrestling and one guy's arm shatters. :( Very disturbing.

It was, but that's still the best show on TV. There's always some skateboard doing something stupid. And then the guy (having landed on his ass on some railing), utters the classic line "I won't be able to take a poo!"

[Preston McMurry]

Originally posted by usscouse
I wanted to be a goalie after I watched an English Cup Final from Wembley. Man City were playing (I forget who) but 20 minutes from the final whistle Bert Trautman, Cities goalie went out and down hard for a 50/50 ball.
After the game he went for an x-ray and his NECK was BROKEN.

Kurt Angle won an Olympic gold medal in 1996 in heavyweight freestyle wrestling with a broken neck ...

[norfcath]

Once in a high school chess game I managed to checkmate my opponent. I was so excited that, in throwing my hands into the air, I banged my index finger on the bottom of the table. Then, my opponent was so mad that he upended the chess board. In attempting to catch the pieces before they scattered on the floor, I banged my head, once again on the table. Boy, did it smart!

[thepremierleague]

I didn't see it, but a English ex player once elbowed someone coming from behind in the face, and his eye popped out.

The guy was blind and they had to remove it.

[TOTC]

Originally posted by Cascarino's Pizzeria
A college hockey player got checked head first into the boards and was paralyzed. I think he played for Vermont.


It was Travis Roy of Boston University.