[Chachi King]

Freshman year in high school, there was this kid on my team with really spindly, long legs (he was 6'2, 5 feet of which must have been legs). He was tackled from BOTH sides by two players, effectively snapping his leg in half. He was in a cast and a wheelchair for months. I don't know how the hell he managed to not scream. Even more, I dunno how the opposing players got away with only a yellow.

[helmzgk]

I got head butted from the side once in a club game. I was running out for a through ball and this huge dude just head butts me, gets away with nothing. I didn't feel anything except a burning in my ear, but then i collapsed, completely blacked out. I woke up and there was blood everywhere. This guy literally popped my ear. This doesn't compare to the injury you saw though. That had to hurt.

[Cascarino's Pizzeria]

I've seen several nasty injuries.

Saw a bone protruding from a HS player's leg when I was a kid.

American football - on a sweep our guard in 8th grade stepped on a kid's arm and the snap was audible from the sidelines. Also - our LB jumped offsides and gave a brutal forearm underneath the opposing guard's facemask and broke the kid's nose. Got the heave-ho for that slick move.

[Craig the Aussie]

Playing Aussie Rules (in a pre season friendly against an army team) - one of our guys came down from a high leap and landed spread-legged on one of theirs outstretched leg.

The leg snapped with bone sticking out and blood all over, while our guys testicles were knocked way up into his pelvis and he passed out.

Game over, ambulances all around.

[AFCA]

This year in Spain we had a friendly between Belgians and Dutch. It was a pretty rough match and at 3-3 one of the Belgians was tackled, tried to keep his balance but, oops, he stepped on the bal. His right kneecap was somewhere under his balls, the weirdest ************ I've ever seen.

[Cokane]

I don't know if this one is true but my mates swear by it.

You know those pins that hold the nets in the ground at the back of the goal?? I dunno what they're called, but apparently there was one lying in the grass pitch at my mate's old primary school.

This guy went in for a slide tackle and ripped his ballbag open because it caught on the pin mid tackle.... Oooohhh - nasty. Dunno where the poor kid is now.

[deejay]

World Cup Italy '90.

Argentina vs USSR.

Argentine keeper Pumpido's leg is broken by a tackle. We got to see in slo-mo how his shin bone slowly beeennds. Not to mention the look on his face while this is happening.

[domingo]

I can´t remember when it was, but everybody in Germany around 30 years and older knows this foul. I believe Norbert Siegmann (Werder Bremen) against Ewald Lienen (Arminia Bielefeld). This is the result:

http://www.sportunterricht.de/lksport/lienen2.jpg

[soccertom]

Originally posted by deejay
World Cup Italy '90.

Argentina vs USSR.

Argentine keeper Pumpido's leg is broken by a tackle. We got to see in slo-mo how his shin bone slowly beeennds. Not to mention the look on his face while this is happening.

I remember.

[FWSCKEEPER]

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