The Injury List

From time to time I hear of an injury that just cracks me up. I know, I know, laughing at someone else's misfortune, what a horrible person I am. But how can you not laugh when you hear of a finely tuned professional athlete, an individual who makes obscene amounts of money to play sports, injuring themselves carrying groceries as a certain Colorado Rocky baseball player did a couple years ago?

Or the classic Carlton Fisk quote when he said, "I was considering a comeback until I pulled a muscle vacuuming." He was a great athlete taken down by a household appliance.

And of course there are the numerous NBA basketball players who have been put on injured reserve with Nintendo or Playstation related hand injuries. Seriously, how do you risk millions of dollars by playing too many video games? Too awesomely hilarious not to have a good laugh over.

Even closer to home, rumors abounded early on that Portland Trailblazer super hope Greg Oden injured his knee playing Dance Dance Revolution. To the best of my knowledge those rumors were never substantiated...but the fact that they were BELIEVABLE says a lot about the nature of athletic injuries these days.

So one wonders, how do you go about explaining those injuries? One thinks it would be easier than explaining why you are taking a strip club to court because some lap dancing skank clocked your head with her heels in the midst of said lap dance...