Worst Injuries you have ever seen

[helmzgk]

Originally posted by babytiger2001
Six pages into this thread, and I'm quite surprised that no one's mentioned the horrific injuries that Mike Ammann suffered a couple of years ago, when he was the MetroStars 'keeper, in the collision with Mamadou Diallo. Ammann, to the best of my fleeting memory, suffered broken ribs, a broken cheekbone and several facial lacerations.

I never got to see that myself, personally. It occurred during my first trip here to Australia, and I've never seen any videotape of it, even. If anyone was an eyewitness to it, was it as bad an incident as it sounded?

Earlier this year, I do recall bringing the Ammann-Diallo incident up when I heard of an injury to a star player of AFL footy over here, when Essendon's full-forward James Hird caught a knee flush to the face against Fremantle and had much of the same damage as did Ammann (save for the broken ribs). Hird's playing again, but he had to miss close to ten weeks of action after having hours of plastic surgery to repair his damage.

Cheers,
William

I saw that on replays and such. It really didn't look that bad, just looked like Amman got a mouth full of cleat, that's all. I was surprised at the injuries when i first heard about them, but after watching slow mo you see Diallo's knee go into Amman's torso, so that's where to broken ribs came from. Not a position i would want to be in.

[Preston McMurry]

I just suffered massive brain damage seeing a long message quoted in its entirety in the message immediately following the long message ...

[Preston McMurry]

Golf accident: http://poetry.rotten.com/past/gator/

Rugby(?) Foul: http://poetry.rotten.com/eye-gouge/

Tug of War Injury: http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:1T_toNe2iA4C:hjem.get2net.dk/tst/weird/arm.jpg (that had to hurt!)

I love this thread ...

[Preston McMurry]

No one mentioned the baseball pitcher (Dravecky?) who broke his arm while throwing the ball, or the game a year or two ago where the guy broke his leg stepping on first base. Those were pretty gross as well.

Then there was the cheap shot that guy took at Rudy Tomjanovich in basketball game back in the 70's. Shattered his face.

This guy almost sliced off his calf playing volleyball: http://www.cobravolleyball.com/Injury.html

Somebody mentioned wrestler Sid Vicious breaking his leg: http://www.deansplanet.com/sid%20vicious%20snaps%20leg.jpg

[Publius]

I was one post late with Dravecky. He had a cancerous tumor removed from his pitching arm and in his second start after coming back from surgery his arm shattered on the followthrough of his delivery. Gawd, it was easily as sickening as the Krumrie, Theismann and McCallum injuries. Dravecky ultimately lost the arm to amputation.

I also remember that had Malarchuk been at the opposite end of the rink when he was injured he would have bled to death before he received medical attention.

[Publius]

"The Pitch that Killed" by Mike Sowell is a great book about the 1920 AL pennant race and of the Carl Mays/Ray Chapman incident which remains the only on-field fatality in MLB history.

[Beckhamcpt07]

I forgot his name but that guy from Coventry who broke his leg at Old Trafford and the blood had to be washed off the pitch. That was nasty.

[SABuffalo786]

Originally posted by Beckhamcpt07
I forgot his name but that guy from Coventry who broke his leg at Old Trafford and the blood had to be washed off the pitch. That was nasty.

Buust was his name. Someone mentioned it earlier in this thread. The one that stands out for me was this English defender, can't recall his name, who had a massive gash in his forehead, and kept playing. His entire white England strip was covered in blood. If you subscribe to FourFourTwo, you should know what I'm talking about.

[Parkhead_Faithful]

Originally posted by SABuffalo786


Buust was his name. Someone mentioned it earlier in this thread. The one that stands out for me was this English defender, can't recall his name, who had a massive gash in his forehead, and kept playing. His entire white England strip was covered in blood. If you subscribe to FourFourTwo, you should know what I'm talking about.

Terry Butcher, now manages motherwell.
http://www.jeremynicholas.co.uk/images/soccer.gif

[Parkhead_Faithful]

Originally posted by nadpolice9
henrik larsson's broken leg a couple of years ago, it was mad f'ed up.

http://www.ii.uib.no/~rossebo/grafikk/au.jpg

[Beckhamcpt07]

Who was it from Spurs who was the best defender of his generation and was tackled but some 18 year old. He then became a doctor of some sort.(FourFourTwo)

[Preston McMurry]

Weedwhackers were not meant to be used on the human body: www.freewebs.com/iwamidsouth/gfx/weedwhackmondo.jpg (wrestling injury)

(The picture is at that link, though BigSoccer in its infinite wisdom will not actually take you there is you click on it. BigSoccer should take a weedwhacker upside the head.)

Clip the URL, then paste into the address window on your browser ...

[Fleetwood Mac #1]

Mamadou Diallo's bruised leg; August 31, 2002

[Preston McMurry]

Couldn't be as bad as some of the skateboard/rollerblade bruises I've seen on "You gotta see this!" ...

[Preston McMurry]

If you haven't seen "You gotta see this!" then you gotta see it. It's on Fox Sports Net. In any case, yesterday they had a re-run of the one featuring martial arts incidents, including the one where two Russian guys (one with a real sword) were sparring. One guy like hip-tossed the guy holding the sword, whose foot then landed on the sword, severing his toe. The toe-less guy got up, asked his sparring partner to fetch the toe, and limped off to his car for a ride to the hosital ...

Another one I'm surprised no one mentioned is the Uglly Fottballer's web site, which includes a sub-section for ugly injuries:
http://www.uglyfootballers.com/rogues/ugly_injuries/ugly_injuries.html

[Beckhamcpt07]

The german one is awful you can see his muscles and tendons.

[Preston McMurry]

If I could see this injury (and I'd rather not) I'm sure it would be ugly: http://www.humorpages.net/painintheass/painintheass.jpg