Posted on 01/19/2009 2:51:42 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
One of the most vicious collisions you’ll ever see, posted here because I know most of you watched the game and are wondering how he’s doing. Miraculously, despite “significant” neck pain, he’s “neurogically intact” with movement in all his limbs. No diagnosis yet but presumably it’s whiplash and/or a concussion.
So brutal was this that, after watching the replay, I was hoping he was “merely” paralyzed and not actually dead on the field. Click the image to watch.
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I don't think Palomalu is on anything - he's just too quick, too analytical and too good to be f'ed on stuff.
The battle in the Superbowl between Troy Palomalu and Larry Fitzgerald - both on the field at the same time - should be a classic!
It’s a violent sport and it was the biggest hit in an extremely physical game. Not at all cheap, however; it was clean all the way. McGahee took two steps before the hit and saw Clark coming. Couldn’t get out of the way. I’m glad that McGahee will apparently be ok. His time in uniform is running out, however. He took a big hit against Ohio State in ‘02 BCS NCG. Tore up his knee. I don’t think he has much left in the tank.
Personally I am glad both are okay.
There wasn't anything "cheap" about it, the helmet to helmet was completely unintentional.
Perhaps you'd prefer watching figure skating next time out.
Ballet is a contact sport, football is a collision sport. We play a collision sport
That wasn’t all that vicious. Seemed a pretty normal hard hit to me.
When the “cart” comes out it does give some the cringes. Seeing his legs move before being put on the safety board and his hands move after being lifted on the cart was great.
He has some time to recoup. Clark, who looked banged up himself hopefully will be able to play in two weeks.
Tough game.
As opposed to Alzheimer’s, the cognitive damage of TBI tends not to be progressive, unless they continue to suffer TBIs.
That’s why Merril Hoge (ex-Steelers and Bears fullback) retired. He had too many concussions. Troy Aikman seemed to have the same problem. Any player with a history of concussions needs to seriously consider his retirement options.
I watched the game and remember that. As soon as I saw the leg break, I thought of poor Joe Theisman and the hit from LT.
Isn’t that why Steve Young retired from the 49ers?
I had forgotten about it and had no idea it was the same player.
The fact the guy can even walk is amazing.
I've had knee surgery a couple of years ago for some minor repairs (fell off my roof) I can only imagine the pain and guts it took to for him to rehab to the point he could play in the NFL
He's one tough SOB
You must not have seen the same video I did, or you’re too busy waving your “Terrible Towel.” The defender clearly launched himself at the player head first. Left his feet to do so.
Played a little football in the day. It’s not figure skating, but it’s not a blood sport. Then again, both the Steelers and the Ravens have enough thugs to go around the league twice.
I agree and physical therapy can hurt worse then the injury.
Yeah. Funny, how the doctor never tells you that till after the surgery :)
LOL.
Come on!! The hit was clean!! There was nothing cheap about it!! Ya it was vicious, but that’s football!!
That’s what Simms said, but Simms was wrong. Deliberate helmet to helmet is always against the rules. Of course then the problem is what’s deliberate. It looks like if McGahee hadn’t braced for the hit by folding up his head wouldn’t have been in the flight path, or maybe Clarke was aiming for the head and missed but go “lucky” (of course he got knocked out too). Another problem is basic human anatomy, you can’t really leap at someone without leading with your head, and that head has a very hard shell around it in football, and that shell when propelled by a strong weighty man can do a lot of damage even if it hits something other than head.
What I think is going to happen is that the NFL is going to adopt some variation of the NHL’s charging rule. In the NHL you can’t leave your feet for a hit because that leaping motion adds so much force which tends to injure. Now I don’t think the NFL can completely outlaw leaping tackles, for one not all are dangerous, but I do think they’ll define a range of angles at the ball carrier that can’t be done with a leap.
There’s no way to launch yourself other than head first, when the human body goes into flight like that it leads with the head. The question is was he aiming for the head. And we really can’t tell because video doesn’t come with thought captions. What he can see is that until McGahee scrunched up to brace for the hit it wasn’t going to be helmet to helmet, that doesn’t mean that wasn’t Clark’s intent, but if it was he would have missed.
Vicious. Chaeap and vicious.
That is a better illustration for the helmet-led tackle that Jack Tatum of the Raiders(figures!) did to Darryl Stingly of the Partriots back in 1978-in a pre-season game!
Stingly ended up a quadriplegic for life, and just passed away last year.
Tatum, on the other hand, was never repentant for the intentional hit he delivered. He now cannot walk . He lost both his legs to diabetes.
Karma?
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