I wish I could un-watch that b-ball injury.

[tridim]

OMG.

[Le Taz Hot]

1. No idea what you're talking about here.

[tridim]

5. It was too brutal to even describe

You'll hear about it. Sorry.

[JohnnyLib2]

7. u of Louisville player Ware in NCAA game

[Hissyspit]

25. Here: Not for squeamish.

[LittleBlue]

2. I walked away from the TV immediately

Seen these before, you never get used to it

[JohnnyLib2]

3. Awful. Team and crowd and announcer reaction is stunning. *

U of Louisville player

[Butterbean]

4. Compound fractures make me queasy. I'm still nauseated.

Poor baby, I hope they get some pain meds for him quickly.

[NutmegYankee]

40. Amazing many report little pain from that type of injury at first.

The endorphins kick in and they go numb in the leg. Later tonight, I hope they hand him some good stuff.

[Butterbean]

50. Well bless endorphins, then. Yikes. n/t

[cali]

54. not my experience. Horrific pain

sept 2011. Smashed my leg to bits. Compound, spriral segmental fractures (yes, plural) of my tibia and fractures of the fibula. I was in agony. Had to crawl up the road to get help on my stomach, passing out from the pain on the way. IM nail from my ankle to my knee inside the tibia. 2 plates on the fibula and it took 3 surgeries and a year to heal. Now I have Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy as a result and though that's very painful, nothing compares to the pain from smashing my leg. Not childbirth or anything else I've experienced.

[NutmegYankee]

56. OUCH!

Did you get into a Motorcycle crash?

[cali]

58. no. I was running down the stairs and slipped

landing on a flagstone floor on my left leg. I live alone. The phone was upstairs so I had to get out of the house, crawl on my belly up the driveway, onto my road and to the neighbor's.

[CTyankee]

60. oh, god, I slipped on a carpeted stair a while back and landed so hard it dislodged my

glasses right into my head...I landed on a rug thank god so nothing broken but I was visibly black and blue for days in my left cheek...

[NutmegYankee]

62. That sucks.

I live alone as well, and an injury like that is always a fear on my mind.

[indepat]

74. How quickly and unexpected horrible accidents can occur. My wife and a daughter have suffered

life-altering injuries due to a broken leg and broken arms. Our best wishes for the very best possible long-term outcome.

[Skittles]

66. I believe it

I crashed through a computer raised floor when someone left half a tile open - I remember sitting there thinking, I just SMASHED my shin and I don't feel a thing....it was a small wound but so deep I could see bone - took 12 stitches and it still didn't hurt but OMG the next day it hurt!!!

[brewens]

6. I missed it and they aren't showing the replay, so it must have been bad.

What happened?

[Butterbean]

10. Read in box below...

Player jumped, landed and his leg just snapped at the most unnatural angle you've ever seen, at the tibia, and it was a compound fracture, so you could see the bone poking through on tv. His teammates fell to the floor in shock upon witnessing the gruesome injury.

[brewens]

18. Yikes! I had one happen right in front of me playing high school football.

One of those where just the initial contact actually made me start to look away. And the crunch is something you didn't want to hear.

To make things worse, it was a cheap shot by one of my teammates. He of course didn't mean to hurt the guy that bad. It was behind the play and he gave him a blindside cut, the kind that would have just sent him flying ass over end any other time. It was also a rival teams coaches son that was a pretty good college prospect.

We were losing and it was a backup junior center in the game that was pissed that he hadn't got in the game any sooner. He was just looking to lay a good shot on someone. It couldn't have turned out any worse unless he killed the guy.

[YarnAddict]

42. It must have just been a freak thing

We turned on the game right after it happened, so didn't know how. I looked it up on-line, and it looked like no one else was even close to him. Just the way he landed. Makes me wonder if there is something else going on--something that would make his bones exceptionally brittle.

[Butterbean]

49. That's exactly what I said to my husband.

I wonder if he's got exceptionally brittle bones. He says that such injuries "just happen," and that it was just the way he landed. I don't know much about orthopedics, so I can't say either way.

[NutmegYankee]

51. It looked like it was just a bad landing.

He came down from a good height and planted that foot the wrong way. The rest is gravities fault.

[undeterred]

59. Thats true in the sense that there were no external forces.

Nobody pushed him - he just fell in a bad way. But you just don't see an injury like this, even in professional basketball, very often.

[NutmegYankee]

61. agree.

I couldn't eat anymore after watching that. His leg folded up like a rubber hose. Sickening!

[nclib]

8. I do too.

And I'm not even sure what I saw.

[Cirque du So-What]

9. I wasn't paying close attention

so I don't know what happened.

[undeterred]

11. Broken leg?

Indianapolis — 6:33 first half: Louisville 21, Duke 20: Play has been stopped as Louisville's Kevin Ware is down with an injury that looks to be like a broken leg. Several Louisville players in agony over seeing the injury.

http://www.wralsportsfan.com/duke-faces-louisville-for-spot-in-final-four/12287675/

Duke player reacts

[arely staircase]

12. ok i haven't seen it, give me an idea

worse than this?:

[Go Vols]

22. close

[undeterred]

24. well they don't close in on it

Seems amazing that his leg would break just from a landing like that.

[enlightenment]

33. That's bad.

A break like that in a player that young suggest some underlying problem. I hope it was just monsterously bad luck and not something much more serious.

[Warpy]

34. I once cracked a rib just reaching for something at a weird angle

It looked like he was slowing up a little and then he went down, as though his leg just snapped out from under him.

He might have been playing with a stress fracture or a cracked bone from some other cause. Players will do just about anything and endure any pain to stay in things like playoffs and championship games.

The reaction of his team mates was amazing.

ETA: A compound fracture is when bones are protruding through the skin, something that didn't happen in this case. The risk of infection is sky-high in compound fractures, so he was lucky in that regard. He's still got to be hurting right now, morphine does only so much, and I hope his recovery is quick.

[nadinbrzezinski]

52. Let's cut to the chase

Could suggest osteosarcoma, cancer of the bone.

I hope it was just a really bad fall.

[Hissyspit]

77. Or a previous stress injury in the game.

[proud2BlibKansan]

65. When I was in high school, one of our football players broke his hip in a game.

Turned out he had bone cancer.

[sweetloukillbot]

37. Theismann's injury wasn't immediately obvious during the play.

But I remember they kept showing that replay over and over and over, so much that it was the first thing I thought of when this thread was posted... Lawrence Taylor's reaction after the play though. OMG, even with the helmet on you can see the emotion.

[YarnAddict]

44. Yeah, worse. n/t

[babylonsister]

55. THAT I remember and will forever. nt

[steve2470]

13. this on Twitter ?

NCAA March Madness @marchmadness 6m

Quite a tough sight here in Indy after Ware endures a bad leg injury. Both teams visibly shaken by the injury.

https://twitter.com/marchmadness/with_replies

[HipChick]

14. Where's the link?

[Jamastiene]

48. WARNING!!! GRAPHIC!!!

Here is one link:
WARNING!!! GRAPHIC!!! TURN BACK NOW IF YOU CANNOT HANDLE WATCHING THINGS LIKE THIS!!!
http://deadspin.com/kevin-ware-suffered-maybe-the-most-gruesome-injury-in-t-464789219

[Danmel]

15. It was gruesome

Like watching Joe Theisman's leg snap for those of us old enough to remember that. Poor Kid.

[madinmaryland]

16. Almost as bad as the Joe Thiesmann injury in the mid 1980's.

[YarnAddict]

38. I think this one was worse :-( n/t

[bluedigger]

69. Pirates catcher Kendall breaks ankle.

You must remember that one. Worst I've seen.

[WilliamPitt]

17. My Facebook feed just erupted with traumatized NCAA b-ball fans freaking out.

Glad I missed it.

[WillyT]

19. Yep... I Almost Threw Up...

[mcar]

20. It was nauseating to watch

Can't even imagine what it must have felt like. I hope he recovers ok. The reactions from his team were so emotional.

[SidDithers]

21. My 12 year-old is watching the game but didn't see the injury...

hoping to hell they don't show a replay. I warned him to not watch it if a replay does come on.

Sid

[Hissyspit]

29. They showed the replay only once.

And I'm thinking a 12-year-old wouldn't necessarily recognize what he was seeing.

It didn't bother me the first time I watched it. It REALLY bothered me the second time.

[TeamPooka]

31. Benchmark moment in the evolution of Broadcast Television today and many won't even notice it.

CBS is not re-running the Kevin Ware injury over and over and over again and even stated why during halftime.
I commend CBS for this and hope other sports broadcasters follow suit.
When Joe Theismann's leg was similarly broken by Lawrence Taylor on Monday Night Football ABC re-ran that play all night long from every angle and in slow-motion super close up too. All Night Long. I remember it well.
So TV has come a long way in not giving in to the usual voyeuristic blood-lust today.
Now granted this is basketball and not a true blood sport like football so we shall see if CBS and other networks keep this up the next time a football player suffers a televised major injury.
Great call today CBS, you advance to the Finals.

[mcar]

35. Kudos to CBS

I remember the Theismann injury too and am pleasantly surprised at the network's restraint. It was a gruesome injury.

[cherokeeprogressive]

39. I had to turn the Redskins game off after Taylor broke Theismann's leg.

There are only so many times I can watch an injury like that: 1 (if that many).

[sweetloukillbot]

46. I just watched the clip and I'm amazed at the restraint the network showed

I didn't know what I was seeing immediately when I watched it the clip above, and even the replay in the clip doesn't fully capture it. Watching the way the cameramen were blocking the horror out was impressive, especially after, as you said, they wallowed on Theismann's injury.

Of course, what does it say about me that I went and watched it?

[Hissyspit]

79. Well,

They now know everyone will go to YouTube.

But you are not wrong.

[Ruby the Liberal]

23. I am having flashbacks of that LT hit on Theisman.

I see the video of that is posted. Don't know if I can watch it again.

Hoping the kid's leg heals and isn't career ending. *shudder*

[NutmegYankee]

26. No appetite left for dinner after that.

I agree, I wish I could unwatch that.

[House of Roberts]

28. Reminds me of Alabama football player Tyrone Prothro's leg break.

I missed it live, but I have DVR so I went back here at the half to see what happened. Worse than Prothro's I think.

[ms liberty]

30. OMG- I'm trying to unsee it and I can't...

That's the most awful injury I've ever seen in a basketball game...and Mr liberty tells me Joe Theisman's already tweeted his sympathies.

[undeterred]

36. Junior high school

One of our players caught someone else's elbow in his mouth coming down from the basket and lost about 8 teeth. Big bloody mess.

[Ruby the Liberal]

43. That was a classy thing to do.

[bluedigger]

32. Damn.

You know it's bad when the other players collapse in sympathy. Poor guy.

[cherokeeprogressive]

41. I've had two complete ACL tears and can't watch reruns of injuries.

It hurts too much.

[PCIntern]

45. Gro-tesque! nt

[darkangel218]

47. It looks aweful, but he will be fixed in no time. nt

[cali]

57. that depends. If it's a segmental fracture and it looks like it could be

along with it being open, there can be significant damage even in a young person.

[Brigid]

53. My guess is:

Ware's basketball career is over.

[AngryOldDem]

78. Maybe.

He certainly won't be playing next season.

[libodem]

63. We were at a family Easter party

My son came outside and looked pale. I didn't see it but my 6'3'' 280 lb son looked like he was in shock from seeing it happen on tv.

[LittleBlue]

64. Bone 6 inches out of his leg, according to Pitino

All he said while he was on the ground in pain was "win"

[JI7]

67. is there a way to describe what happened without watching it ?

[Ruby the Liberal]

68. Its upthread.

He jumped and landed crooked and his shin split in half, perpendicular to his leg. Gruesome.

[JI7]

75. ok, i hope the news doesn't show this without warning, i wont be watching it

[undeterred]

70. Post #10 does it

[NutmegYankee]

73. To describe it

Player had jumped up to defend a 3 and was coming back down on one leg. His foot landed and his leg folded like a rubber hose into an S shape before he landed back down on the sideline. Yeah, not a sight I wanted to see.

[JI7]

81. i was told this happened to someone when i was a kid

i don't remember when, maybe middle school but i think it was the PE teacher who told us about a student he once had whose bone just came out . i think he was running . i can't remember the details other than just hearing that something like that happened freaked me out.

it wasn't some case of a horrible accident where you are hit or fall down many floors .

i really hope the news does not continously replay this. and if they do at least give a warning. i will not be watching. i watched the video posted up but it didn't seem clear or i wasn't sure what to look out for. (i don't watch basketball). i saw the reactions of the other players and was wondering if something happened to one of them since they looked to be in pain. now i can understand their reaction.

[SidDithers]

71. I don't want to see it. Joe Thiesman, Moises Alou...

those images stay with you forever. I don't need more of that in my life.

Sid

[Arugula Latte]

72. I feel sick just thinking about it. I can't watch.

Damn, poor guy. Damn!!!

[AngryOldDem]

76. I can't imagine what he was going through.

Makes me sick to my stomach.

Luckily, the hospital is just blocks away, and is about the best in the state.

[undeterred]

80. Our troops have to see stuff worse than this all around them in combat.

And they have to keep at it day after day. They can't unsee it.

[nadinbrzezinski]

82. Funny, we just had that exact conversation

And we'll have dinner later on.

[johnp3907]

83. I was dumb enough to watch the video.

Horrible. Still not as bad as Clint Malarchuk.

[rppper]

84. Napoleon McCallums leg break on MNF

Not for the squeamish ....


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