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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 6238388" data-attributes="member: 19675">My list of gruesome non-fatal sports injuries?Well, there was the Track & Field judge who got impaled by a javelin during a meet.I've seen some rodeo bulls (and those in Pamplona and in bullfights) really get their horns into someone...and shake them for a while.  Up & down, all around.  Plus a toss in the air and stomp for good measure.Joe Theisman's injury was pretty bad- worse, IMHO, than Silva's.  You instantly knew it was bad when the cokehead LB who got him (Lawrence Taylor) got up and was instantly screaming for Washington's medics instead of celebrating the sack.I've seen some skateboarders with feet or arms turned the wrong way as they had multiple fractures of a limb.*  One impalement, too, as a guy was grinding along a rooftop ledge and went over the side onto another, lower rooftop, into some pipes.Worse than that was Clint Malarchuck's injury- he got his throat slashed by a skate during an NHL game some years ago.  Jets of blood about 7' long gushed out as they struggled to get medical personnel out to save him.  That's why throat protectors are almost universal among goalies these days.  But not universal- Adam Burish had a similar injury 2 years later.But in my book, the worst I've seen was another leg injury.  It was in a soccer game in Africa.  The news sportscasters BOTH warned people- and repeated the warnings- to look away if they were squeamish before running the clip.   A player was running to make a play near the sideline, and there was some contact and then one of his legs folded like an accordion.  Multiple fractures along the length of his leg, with bone sticking out everywhere.* FWIW, some typical examples of those injuries were spliced into the official music video for Unsane's "Scrape."  It's a hard 3+ minutes to watch, but it ends nicely. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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