What's the worst sports related injury you've ever had?
 

I was just inspired by the football position thread, but I feel like this topic deserves it's own thread.
So what's the worst sports related injury you've ever had/caused/saw in person?

I was fairly lucky in terms of avoiding injuries even though I played sport throughout most of my childhood/teenage years. I did have a good amount of concussions (like 6-7, maybe, which was probably a few too many). I got them from a couple of different sports like baseball (1), football (~2), and wrestling (~3), plus a fall when I was 3 (cracked my skull on that one).

But, the worst sports injury I had was a badly broken nose when I was in 12th grade. Most people just break the cartiledge but I actually broke tip of the bone at the base of my nose, inbetween my eyes. I caught a knee to the face in wrestling practice, and right away I knew it was broken because I heard a big crunch. I had a bloody nose off and on for about 6 hours, so that was annoying, but driving myself home with a huge bloody rag was pretty funny. The thing that was annoying was that I could actually see the side of my nose out of my left eye when I looked straight ahead, plus I was having trouble breathing, so I had to get surgery. When I woke up from the surgery my face hurt more than when I actually broke it.
What probably sucked the most was that I had to wear a big soft plastic mask for the rest of the season. It was really hard to see and breath out of it and opponents would some times grab at it. The only benifit was that I could cheat and use it was a weapon.

Overall, it sucked, but I'm sure many of you guys have gone through worse.

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Much like I was speaking of in the other thread, I LOVE kickoff team. So much that there was this running back going FULL STEAM at me and I'm going full steam at him. He lowered his head and we BOTH got knocked out and I was thought to have a partially separated retina. Nasty stuff.

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But honestly, the worst "injury" I've had came earlier this year when I was playing my usual lunch-time basketball. I jumped up for a rebound and came down feeling like all ligaments, tendons, whatever else is in there crunching.

It was the most pain I think I've ever been in. To this day, there's something up with it. Like when I move the foot in a circle it pops like a cherry.

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I once pulled 37 splinters out of the back of my thighs after an important game. That was pretty bad...

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Broken collar bone. No biggie really I guess.

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I was playing center and I was locked up with a block when someone rolled up the side of my right knee. I sprained the MCL and had bruised cartilage, and it's given me problems ever since. I never missed a game though, just taped the crap out of it.

Now when I walk it cracks like rice crispies and every once in a while it swells up for no reason.

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Summer basketball practice before my Jr. year:

Intersquad "game", I grabbed a rebound and turned up the court. I had nothing in front of my except the basket...wide open layup coming, right?

Wrong.

Someone (probably, hopefully not intentional) tripped me. I was going full speed. I felt myself actually flip over once in the air and landed HARD on my forehead AND left knee at the same time. There was a flash and then it was like someone was dimming the lights to black for a little bit. Big bump on the head and a mild concussion AND I dislocated my left kneecap. I could move up all around, up and down really far away from my knee. I had previously dislocated my RIGHT kneecap when a bar of weights slipped out of my hands onto my knee while doing curls about 2 years earlier. Also, since it was summer, they had just waxed the court, so I stuck to the court and got courtburn from my waist to my armpit as my jersey came up when I was sliding a little. THAT was probably the most painful part.

The worst part of it...the coach had just stepped out into the hallway to the water fountain and MISSED it. As a point guard, I didn't get a ton of boards down low like that. :D
I bet that's a WP record for most injuries at the same time.

My left knee is my good knee today. No problems with it...however my RIGHT knee is a mess.

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It's funny though I think I got more banged up playing flag football in college. I broke my right ring finger when it got twisted up in someone's jersey and it never healed right so I have a bit of a club finger. I also got knocked the hell out once when I collided head to head with a guy. The only time I've ever been knocked out cold.

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Age 8 - Fractured Tibia (the big bone in your shin). Cast for 12 weeks.

Age 11 - Fractured Thumb (punched my friend in the head, he had a metal plate in his head and I just happened to hit it - sports related cause it's "boxing"). Cast for 3 weeks.

Age 15 - Knee cap grinding against cartilage. Got this one from pitching, plus I was growing like a weed and my bones were outgrowing my muscles. No cast or brace, just three weeks of physical therapy and I was good to go.

Age 18 - Spontaneous Pneumothorax (collapsed lung). This was scary, occurred while I was in the pool for swim practice at college. Trouble breathing and stuff. One week in the hospital for an emergency thoracotomy (removal of part of the lung). Three weeks of rest. Then I was back in the pool. Scariest injury for me by far, but quick recovery time when you consider the surgery.

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I was punting once (also played QB) and got "roughed". Tore my right MCL and was done with football for good. Sucked.

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Oh, I also got nailed in the hand with a pitch in little league and broke my left ring finger. I have to wear my wedding ring on my right hand because the knuckle of that finger is huge and the finger doesn't straighten the whole way.

The pinky beside it is a little mangled too but looks good compared to the ring finger.

I also tore the ligaments in my right thumb and had to have the joint fused with 2 screws since it was beyond repairable.

I have 16 screws, a plate (entire forearm from elbow to wrist) and had 7 pins in me between my thumb, both feet and my right forearm, but they're not sports-related. :)

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[quote=Mattyk72;241579]It's funny though I think I got more banged up playing flag football in college. I broke my right ring finger when it got twisted up in someone's jersey and it never healed right so I have a bit of a club finger. I also got knocked the hell out once when I collided head to head with a guy. The only time I've ever been knocked out cold.[/quote]


Sounds just like my baseball finger! :food-smil

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my knees are all sorts of messed up from sports. I still can't stand or sit in one position for too long without them hurting like all hell. I probably need to get them cleaned up or something, but that can wait.

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Is that from sports or the shed? ;)

Couldn't resist.

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[QUOTE=TheMalcolmConnection;241593]Is that from sports or the shed? ;)

Couldn't resist.[/QUOTE]

damn you and your ability to twist around my words.

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I tore my ACL and had a complex meniscus tear in my right knee playing football with a group of friends. I waited six years before finally getting surgery. The doctor trimmed the meniscus (60%) but said the ACL partially healed itself and he thought it would be good enough if I didn't do anything extremely reckless. He was wrong. Running around the bases in softball will occasionally result in a "pop" (knee) leading to a "splat" (me).

I also broke my collarbone playing flag football in Colorado. About 10 degrees with 3-4 inches of snow on the ground. I went out for a pass, the ball was overthrown and I stretched out for it. After realizing I couldn't catch it, I decided to dive and roll, come up and head back to the huddle. No biggie, I did many times before. When I dove I basically drove my shoulder straight into the ground, heard a snap and a white flash of light went off in my head. The funny thing was I was wearing like 4 layers of clothing so the shoulder felt stiff but I guess due to the immobilty it didn't hurt so bad or feel broken. So, the next play I ran an inside route. The ball was high. I lifted my arms up and pain just shot right through my shoulder.

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I didn't play football, but I was the water and stat girl and I saw some NASTY injuries..... broken collar bone through the skin was one of the worst.

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i broke my left arm skateboaring when I was 7 and touched my hand to my shoulder with my elbow bent the wrong way... that sucked.

I pinched nerves from time to time and broke a bone in my foot... the bone that goes down the outside of the foot from the pinky toe... just twisting it wrong. ITs called a dancer's break, but I wasn't freakin dancin.

Playing soccer I saw 2 of the most gruesome injuries ever, one I caused. Barb high school in lake charles LA was like a 5a team that came down to pick on us. they were up 16-0 at halftime, and coach put me in at goalie for the second half and told me, "we already lost, at least make em pay for makin us look that bad".

Bad advice from a bad coach. I got into the heat of the game and threw a guy through the back of the net while he was shooting. His leg hit the goalpost behind the net and snapped. Benches cleared. I felt horrible, though... still do.

Then a freind of mine, ricky snapped his leg without contact in a game and I held the IV bag on the field for him... it was sticking out, but it didnt' actually break through the skin...

oh, and once I headed a throw in in soccer and knocked a guys tooth out of his face. I got the ball and his mouth and they stopped the game to find his tooth. I played the game with blood everywhere from the gash in my head... it looked awesome...

No big football injuries, though...

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Two springs ago I was playing lacrosse and was right in front of the goal. I jumped and was hit from the left side, I took a shot (missed) and when I landed my cleats planted in the turf with my momentum still going towards the right from the hit.

It was field turf so my foot was not going anywhere, but my body kept moving. I heard three consecutive pops, and partially tore all the ligaments in my ankle. It got all black and blue.. pretty nasty.

But recently playing flag football I got a minor scrap on my elbow...I shrugged it off as nothing. Turns out it developed into nasty cellulitis and I'm still on anti-biotics for it. I'll never take a small cut lightly again... My elbow is still in alot of pain, but the anti-biotics are working like a charm.

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tore my meniscus in my left knee, tore my right calf, sprained ligaments in my right big toe, tore my quad, tendinitis in my ankles, numerous sprained ankles.all soccer injuries

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I never had any overly serious injuries, but my right shoulder sounds like gravel from the pounding it took over the years. I also have a fallen arch in my left foot that bugs me occasionally.

The worst injury I was ever a part of was a severely broken tibia, that I had a hand in causing by sandwiching a guy between myself and another player. An ambulance was actually brought onto the field. It was pretty rough.

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Almost forgot, scariest injury that I have ever witnessed...

During lacrosse practice in high school a good buddy of mine was playing defense and lit me up big time... He absolutley laid me out while I was coming across the middle.

A few minutes passed and he started feeling sick, and began to vomit excessivley. We called the ambulance right away and it turns out he had a blood vessel pop in his brain. The doctors gave him a 50-50 chance to live. Some really scary stuff... but everything healed fine, and he's actually playing defense for Navy last time I talked to him.

See what happends when you hit a stud like me.... (just kidding... just kidding)

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Knocked out during a particularly nasty pillow fight during basic training.

Some bastard put their boots in the pillow case.

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I hernicated a disc in my neck after flipping an SUV over three times.....

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[quote=RedskinRat;241614]Knocked out during a particularly nasty pillow fight during basic training.[/quote]

The part about the boot sucks, but reading this line by itself is pretty funny. What happened after you were knocked out? :laughing2

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[quote=Southpaw;241617]The part about the boot sucks, but reading this line by itself is pretty funny. What happened after you were knocked out? :laughing2[/quote]

My boys dragged my arse out of the other Company billet and threw me in my bunk. Woke up a few hours later with a screaming headache and just got on with my day. 5 mile run, drill for 3 hours, lunch, gun range for the afternoon, PT for an hour then dress parade for fucking about during PT.

I puked a few times and have a wicked memory loss to this day (only the serious stuff, I remeber non-essential shit like you wouldn't believe) but it was fun at the time.

Nowadays I'd get sent to the medic and mollicoddled for a week. British Army was crazy back in '78.

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[quote=RedskinRat;241614]Knocked out during a particularly nasty pillow fight during basic training.
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Quote I never thought I'd hear....LOL

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British army... I see.... lots of pillow fights in your knickers?

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I knew a kid from a different HS who accidently put his hand through a window trying to stop after running wind sprints in a hallway. The problem was, it was one of the school windows with the mesh inside, so when he pulled his arm back out almost all of the skin got ripped from the bone. He actually had to get flown to shock trauma. It required a bunch of skin graphts (sp?) and everything. He lost a ton of weight and was never the same wrestler when he came back.
I wasn't there for it but that kid loved to show off the pictures that the doctors took of his arm. They looked like pizza without the cheese.

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[quote=canthetuna;241624]Quote I never thought I'd hear....LOL[/quote]


I've actually heard and seen worse. My Regiment played Field Hockey against a regiment of Women's Royal Army Corps and they beat the snot out of us. One lad had his ankle broken. I learned to treat women the way they treat me on that day.

[IMG]http://www.rhydin.org/uniform/mil-uk/00100591.jpg[/IMG]

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I was playing football in high school, on the kickoff team someone nailed the opposing player he went flying towards me and his facemask landed on the top of my foot shattering 3 of the 5 filanges (bad spelling). Went through 9 hours of surgery (i woke up twice and sat up during the surgery). I was layed up for 6 months with pins in my foot then it took me another 3 months to walk normally again. But we did win the game!

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Broken thumb from football
Broken nose from baseball
Dislocated shoulder from golf

... all of them happened while practicing. :(

Worst injury witnessed on TV: Willis MaGahee/Theisman

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I got the injury that is gonna take home first place guaranteed!!!!

I played rugby in high school for DeMatha and we were playing against St. John's at their field. A St. John's player had the ball and got wrapped up by one of our guys but stayed on his feet. Another guy from my team was right there to help finish the tackle but at the last second the guys spun around to avoid contact basically putting the DeMatha tackler that was already on him between the oncoming tackler and himself. Naturally in rugby you get low to tackle and the oncoming DeMatha tackler went face first into his own teammates head. The collision didn't seem bad but then we realized the guy coming in to make the tackle was missing 2 teeth. They had been loged in the head of his teammate who didn't even realize the 2 teeth were in his head. So, we had one of our guys missing 2 teeth and all bloody while our other teammate had the 2 teeth stuck in his head, which was also bleeding. Luckily they weren't deep and they got pulled out. I saw this happen and was pretty disgusted and people in the crowd were pretty shocked at it. The crazy thing is that our guy who lost the teeth had a mouth guard but it had fallen out of place just for second, and it was right as the hit happened. Crazy!

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[quote=GhettoDogAllStars;241639]Broken thumb from football
Broken nose from baseball
[B]Dislocated shoulder from golf[/B]

... all of them happened while practicing. :(

Worst injury witnessed on TV: Willis MaGahee/Theisman[/quote]
A friend of mine did that too, I couldn't believe you could do something like that through golf... but I guess it makes sense.

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First season playing high school football, I went all out to get a starting spot. The had me playing LDE, and this one play, I boke the tackle's ankles, got around the corner, and met had to head with the fullback. We both had severe concussions. Second wost injury as later that season. I got high- lowed by the tackle and guard. Tore my meniscus up real bad

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[QUOTE=SkinsLove24/7;241644]I got the injury that is gonna take home first place guaranteed!!!!

I played rugby in high school for DeMatha and we were playing against St. John's at their field. A St. John's player had the ball and got wrapped up by one of our guys but stayed on his feet. Another guy from my team was right there to help finish the tackle but at the last second the guys spun around to avoid contact basically putting the DeMatha tackler that was already on him between the oncoming tackler and himself. Naturally in rugby you get low to tackle and the oncoming DeMatha tackler went face first into his own teammates head. The collision didn't seem bad but then we realized the guy coming in to make the tackle was missing 2 teeth. They had been loged in the head of his teammate who didn't even realize the 2 teeth were in his head. So, we had one of our guys missing 2 teeth and all bloody while our other teammate had the 2 teeth stuck in his head, which was also bleeding. Luckily they weren't deep and they got pulled out. I saw this happen and was pretty disgusted and people in the crowd were pretty shocked at it. The crazy thing is that our guy who lost the teeth had a mouth guard but it had fallen out of place just for second, and it was right as the hit happened. Crazy![/QUOTE]

Holy shit, that happened to a guy I know who played rugby in the MD area ... do you know his name (the guy who lost his teeth)?

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real men play rugby... !

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Skinslove, that's horrible. I couldn't even finish reading your post.

Maybe you can help me out with a rugby related thing. I was good friends with the rugby guys when I was going to school in Oneonta, but something about them was definitely "off". Mainly their keg parties where they all ended up naked at some point, doing body shots, or even worse, crack shots! Is that a rugby thing?? They would also end up shirtless at some point during the night at the bars and they would dump beers all over each other.

They were always trying to get me to play rugby, but those parties always had me running the other way.

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[QUOTE=Mattyk72;241668]Skinslove, that's horrible. I couldn't even finish reading your post.

Maybe you can help me out with a rugby related thing. I was good friends with the rugby guys when I was going to school in Oneonta, but something about them was definitely "off". Mainly their keg parties where they all ended up naked at some point, doing body shots, or even worse, crack shots! Is that a rugby thing?? They would also end up shirtless at some point during the night at the bars and they would dump beers all over each other.

They were always trying to get me to play rugby, but those parties always had me running the other way.[/QUOTE]

The ruby guys at my college were like that too. They also burned shit all the time at their parties.

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Either my concussion as a freshman (on a kick return) or my severly dislocated left arm playing... wait for it....ULTIMATE FRISBEE.

I was going full speed for the frisbee and when I got there a guy on my team tripped and went flying, ended up hitting the ground and cutting my legs out from under me and then I go flying and catch my fall on my left arm, and then I hear a pop, and I'm on the ground and my arm is immobilized out of the socket.

Fun stuff.