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Post by Secret Clown on Sept 30, 2017 5:29:40 GMT -5
So Rugby Union player Scott Baldwin had to miss a game after his hand was bitten by a lion. (full story here.) Any other bizarre reasons for players missing games?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2017 7:19:32 GMT -5
I like stories like that, the stranger the better.
-Sammy Sosa missing time for throwing out his back after a sneeze. -A player in the 1910s missed time after falling asleep in a rocking chair (possibly drunk) and ended up rocking over his pitching hand. -It may have been Dizzy Dean who missed a few games because he was hanging out with the engineer of the train, learning how to run the thing. -Chris Sale missed an entire spring training a couple of years ago falling off the back of a pick-up while helping a friend move. Opening Day, the White Sox were escorted to the third-base line in a parade of...pick-up trucks.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2017 13:10:52 GMT -5
Joel Zumaya had to miss a few games during the 2006 ALCS because he injured his arm playing Guitar Hero.
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Oct 1, 2017 13:47:28 GMT -5
I like stories like that, the stranger the better. -Sammy Sosa missing time for throwing out his back after a sneeze. My uncle in law threw his back out sneezing. Lead to a whole host of health issues that lead him to being even more of a cranky asshole and black balled from family events. No idea if true but John Smoltz burning himself ironing his shirt while wearing it
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Post by Nickybojelais on Oct 1, 2017 13:48:55 GMT -5
Just read an article about some other strange injuries
England goalkeeper David James missed games because he strained his back reaching for the remote control
Footballer Ivano Bonetti broke his cheekbone when the team's manager threw a plate of Chicken wings at him during the half-time interval. Why there was a plate of chicken wings in the dressing room is beyond me!
Rangers footballer Kirk Broadfoot missed games when the poached egg that he was cooking exploded in his face.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2017 14:08:14 GMT -5
Cardinals K Bill Gramatica blowing his knee out celebrating a made FG
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Post by Can you afford to pay me, Gah on Oct 2, 2017 12:31:33 GMT -5
Mike Matheny in 00 just before the playoffs gets a hunting knife as a gift and ends up slicing his finger and missed the playoffs.
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Post by Cyno on Oct 2, 2017 12:52:38 GMT -5
Joel Zumaya had to miss a few games during the 2006 ALCS because he injured his arm playing Guitar Hero. Don't attempt Buckethead during the ALCS
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Post by Renslayer on Oct 3, 2017 13:27:58 GMT -5
Clint Barmes of the Colorado Rockies went on the DL after he fell down the stairs carrying deer meat.
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Post by Push R Truth on Oct 3, 2017 13:31:47 GMT -5
That dude from the New York Giants that blew his hand off with fireworks
I remember watching MLB and some guy missed games because of a sunburn
I believe it was Gus Frerotte that missed time because he headbutted a wall for a TD celebration. It wasn't even for a crazy play. I think it was like a standard 1 yard TD run.
Wasn't there a Gramatica that blew out his knee celebrating a kick? (now I see it was previously mentioned)
Oh, and one more for stupid "celebration injuries": I think it was Lamaar Houston that blew out his knee celebrating a sack at the end of a blowout game against second stringers.
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Post by Seth Drakin of Monster Crap on Oct 3, 2017 20:34:13 GMT -5
I think it was Indians pitcher Trevor Bauer who had to start Game 2 instead of Game 1 because he cut one of his fingers operating a drone
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Post by Father Dougal McGuire on Oct 4, 2017 5:29:39 GMT -5
Tim Duncan DNP-OLD Then you got this classic gem....
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Post by armbar on Oct 4, 2017 12:38:07 GMT -5
Jari Litmanen missed time because he got hit in the eye with a bottle cap.
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Post by Fundertaker on Oct 4, 2017 12:48:25 GMT -5
IIRC Santiago Cañizares (Spanish goalkeeper for their national team) had to miss a big competition (either a Euro or a World Cup) because he injured himself trying to keep his perfume or deodorant spray bottle from falling to the floor with his foot.
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Post by Nickybojelais on Oct 4, 2017 22:36:47 GMT -5
Jari Litmanen missed time because he got hit in the eye with a bottle cap. Jari Litmanen would still have been the best player on the pitch even with one eye!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2017 9:11:40 GMT -5
MLB pitcher Steve W. Sparks missed most of the 1995 season after attempting to rip a phone book in half. He dislocated his shoulder.
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Post by arrogantmodel on Oct 5, 2017 14:52:18 GMT -5
I got the winner right here:
Glenallen Hill, early in his career, was sleepwalking. He had a dream he was being attacked by spiders and fell through a glass coffee table and down some stairs.
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Post by Porky's Butthole on Oct 6, 2017 13:26:08 GMT -5
Not games, per se, but Shawn Michaels missed some time due to having an emergency smirkectomy.
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Post by TOK Hehe'd Around & Found Out on Oct 7, 2017 15:21:11 GMT -5
Plaxico Burress literally shot himself in the leg on accident because he was afraid that the rapper Fabolous was going to rob him after he left the club he was in, because the gun slipped out of the waistband of the sweatpants he was wearing. He then got 18 months in jail because the license for the gun expired 2 days beforehand.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2017 9:36:21 GMT -5
No Bob Ojeda slicing off the tip of his finger with a hedgetrimmer? Crap, even Heenan made a few jokes about that.
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