 | Nastiest Sports Injury EVARBy Grace Yip |
This is a pic of my leg. It is nowhere near being the Nastiest Sports Injury EVAR, but I thought it was cool looking. Check out the pattern of the bruise. See it? No? How about if I told you that it was raining/sleeting/hailing during our game and I was freezing my ass off? Oh yes. Goose bumps. AWESOME.
Of course, whenever someone gets nicked on the field, my teammates like to console each other by saying “Shake it off. At least you didn’t….”
“…tear your ACL. Again.”
“…get hit in the face with a throw that knocked out your tooth which ended up getting embedded in the inside of your cheek. I still have a scar inside my mouth, wanna see?!”
“… break your nose. Blooooooody.”
“… dislocate/break your foot – mine was completely turned in the wrong direction.”
Winner of this impromptu game of Nastiest Sports Injury EVAR went to one of our goalies, who was back in action after some time off: “Yeah, I had to take two years off because the last time I played, a girl who was shooting on me ended up cracking my helmet with her stick. Seriously, CRACKED my helmet. I ended up with a really bad concussion. So yeah, I’ve been out for two years.”
That’s pretty nasty.
I’m sure you have nastier. Tell us your nastiest, goriest sports injury. Got pictures? Post a link below or notify me on Twitter @Yiponthespot. The Nastiest Sports Injury EVAR wins a prize!
(Editor’s note: Yip tells me that she will actually give you a prize, most likely some sort of athletic gear. No, not her used mouth guard. So, get on it!)
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October 21st, 2009 at 10:38 am
I don’t have pictures but I did tear my ACL playing rugby. My knee swelled to the size of a grapefruit. Then, I had reconstructive surgery. I had just said goodbye to my crutches when I was walking home from a rugby bar practice, slipped on the ice and cracked my knee cap right down the middle. FIVE DAYS LATER, I finally went to the doctor. I think I get some Tough Dyke points for that one.
October 21st, 2009 at 10:50 am
Four years ago I made the genius decision to go horseback riding on an unfamiliar horse without a helmet. As kismet would dictate, early into the ride I was promptly thrown off, hit the wall, rolled down the wall, and the fact that my leg right above my knee slid between the baseboards and was stuck, couple with the gravel digging into my hip, was enough to keep me from skidding across the arena much. My left hip was covered in gashes, I had an enormous dare I say almost rainbow bruise the size of a football on the back of my upper leg, and I completely mutilated my hamstring muscles. I never went to an actual doctor, but a nice Irish veterinarian DID give me some ointment and weak painkillers. After about six months I could walk normally again, another month or two and the bruise went away, two years later I could finally crouch again! My hamstring still likes to spasm a lot though, which looks pretty nasty when my leg turns in all on its own.
Needless to say, I’ve yet to go horseback riding since.
October 21st, 2009 at 10:50 am
“rugby bar practice”…..
October 21st, 2009 at 10:56 am
Quigley… uhh sounds like you might have actually torn your hammie. no real doc? hardcore. i would have at least tried to sneak some horse painkillerzzz.
October 21st, 2009 at 11:35 am
When I was 13 I got 2 of the worst sporty injuries I’ve experienced thus far for a clumsy person…
Roller Blading- So I went through my EXTREMEEEEEEEEEE sports phase from the ages of 8-date of injury. I was mad crazy about inline and decided I was good enough to show of in the local park…well someone challenged me to a down hill race and I was cocky…TOO cocky some might say and agreed to the show down (insert dramatic music) so we took and I was flying down the hill….now the hill in question was pretty steep but there was a turn off to an even STEEPER hill that lead to the car park and stables….I think you can see where I’m going….well as I was sailing to an easy win just before the turn off a small annoying child ran in front of me forcing me to take the only route…down the HILL OF DOOOOOOOM!!! So I HURTLED down the fill swerving traffic and face planted into the fall of the stable. Now I had thrown out my arms to try and brace my inevitable impact which didn’t really help because when I went to the emergency room I had the following:
A crushed wrist
Fractured jaw
Bloody nose
Dislocated knee
Concussion
FUN times… unfortunately the NHS is crap and they reset my wrist wrong (I lost almost an inch of length from my left arm) so now I have a lump of bone that means I can’t flex my wrist correctly.
Then 8 months later I got hurt playing football. I used to be a pretty decent goalie and during a game I dived for the ball…unfortunately the opposing striker didn’t realise and confused my head with the ball….yeah ow….
So there my most impressive sports injuries….too bad I don’t have any cool scars to impress the ladies with….
Cherry Cherry Boom Boom
Em
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October 21st, 2009 at 11:37 am
Horses and stables seem to be a theme. I’m glad I’ve successfully avoided both.
October 21st, 2009 at 1:06 pm
I managed to break a femur playing touch-football in grade school…
October 21st, 2009 at 1:13 pm
i also tore my ACL playing rugby, but it didn’t look as badass as this:
Pic 1
Pic 2
badass bruise from lifting a jumper twice my size and her METAL CLEATS scraping down my leg as she came down with the ball…
October 21st, 2009 at 1:25 pm
HOLY SHIT!!!!
October 21st, 2009 at 3:38 pm
well, I think it’s not really that nasty, but what IS nasty about it is that I got nothing to show. no plaster, no bruise, no sticking out bones…. nothing.
only the story. but the story is cool.
not really for competition, I just want to tell
so… it was the day when I was to do my test for becoming a black-belt.
and I waited hours and hours… beause there were many doing tests with lower belts.
And then it was my mates turn to do his test. Also black belt.
One thing you have to do is to defend youself when multiple enemies attack from different directions and with different weapons/techniques and you don’t know what they are going to do. I was one of his enemies. I had a small blade and wanted to attack him and was prepared for him to do his usual technique. But he didn’t, he just raised his knee to my breast and I totally ran into it, pushing all the air out.
Then I fell to the floor and wanted to breathe, but I couldn’t. Instead of that there were strange grunting sound coming from me. Soon all the other fighters were around me and told me to stand up, to put my arms up…. then they lifted me up and THEN I heard the sound of bells somewhere and felt a strange tingling sensation run from my finger to my shoulders.
The next thing I saw was my mother who was hysterically screaming my name and my trainer sitting next to me. I was on the ground again. Guess what happened? I went unconscious for like little longer than half a minute.
I was brought to a bed and got something to drink.
But no matter what, I wanted to do my test. I stood up. BANG! There it was. Headache like hell. Really, I couldn’t walk around without pain in my head.
So I had to wait two week until I could give the test another try. Which was also really nasty because all my mates had gotten thei belts -.-
And I’m really annoyed that most people think I’m telling a lie when I tell this story. Like, only because I’m only 1,58m big and very thin, does that mean I can’t black out?
October 21st, 2009 at 3:56 pm
I had a bruise pretty similar to one a few years ago when I was playing 3rd base. Line drive to the inner thigh… fun. i totally took a picture
October 22nd, 2009 at 2:08 am
Mine all come from stacking my downhill mountain bike. Worst one was when I stacked in a race, I landed half hanging off a cliff. My ankle swelled straight away and went purple. I couldn’t walk on it so I used my bike to lean on to be able to get myself off the mountain. Once down I took my armour off… Collar bone was fucked, turns out the only thing holding it in place was my armour. That sucked. Wasnt as bad as one of my mates though, he came off one time and got a tree branch (about an inch in diameter) through his thigh… Guess who got to pull it out so he could keep riding to get off the mountain?
October 22nd, 2009 at 12:13 pm
I have two: one is the worst I have pictures of, the other is the worst I’ve ever gotten.
I only have x-rays of what happened to my neck. I’m lucky I didn’t break it or end up paralyzed. I was playing co-ed ice hockey in a rec league. I was chasing the puck with an opposing player into the boards. It was obvious he was going to get there first so I backed off to block him. I thought he was going to turn away from me but my defenseman was in his way so he turned toward me, took about 3 strides, and hit me full-on. I saw the impact coming and crouched. The top of my helmet hit his chest and I felt every vertebrae in my neck pop in order, one by one, down my spine to the bottom of my shoulder blades. To this day I can still tell you exactly where it stopped. I went limp and fell to the ice. The impact knocked me about 10 feet backward and I came to rest at the feet of the referee. Now, here’s the stupid part. I should have immediately gotten off the ice and gone home, or maybe to the ER. Instead, I shook it off and kept on playing. Two years later I’m still paying for it. I have a permanent step-off at C-5/C-6 and chronic pain in my neck and left shoulder.
The worst external injury I got was at a paintball tournament last summer. I was in a bunker and thought I had a guy covering behind. Turns out his gun was jammed. An opposing player came up over the bunker and shot me from about 4-5 feet away. Keep in mind surrender distance is anything within 10 feet. He never gave me a chance to surrender. Here’s a picture of the bruise. The center of the top bruise is now a permanent scar:
Pic
October 22nd, 2009 at 12:56 pm
Is it sick that I’m REALLY enjoying reading these?
Winner of contest will be announced on Wednesday, October 28th. Prize envelope includes random athletic crap, including rainbow sweatbands. Because everyone loves rainbow sweatbands.
October 22nd, 2009 at 5:22 pm
In my senior year of highschool I went on a trip to Costa Rica. About a week into the trip we went up this Mountian with this
amazing view of the ocean. The first night there we also started a pick up game of soccer with some of the local Tico’s
(native costaricans) During the course of this soccer game my foot got kicked instead of the ball, they guy that kicked me was pretty big,
about 6’3. I thought that it was just a bad sprain My foot swelled up about three times normal size it would not fit into my boots.
There was no ice so I was dealing with the swelling and the pain with advil and trying not to put pressure on it. When I got back
to the states about 4 wks later I went to my orthopedist and he told me that I had torn a ligament in the top of my foot that keeps the integrity of
my arch together. He would need to fuse the bones of my first two toes together in order for me to be able to run again. So I have three screws in my left foot.
At the bottom should be the photo. You can see an extra wire hanging out in there it was too close to the joint and he couldnt get it out the first time so I had to come back in 6 months so he could take it out.
October 22nd, 2009 at 5:25 pm
http://s5.photobucket.com/albums/y158/DominaTrinity/?action=view¤t=weddingandbdayparty170.jpg
October 22nd, 2009 at 7:21 pm
This happened last year when I was playing softball for my high school’s team. I play catcher, and as this 5’8 girl came home, mind you, I’m 5’2 – she knocked my legs out from under me so I was turned sideways while my leg was behind me, under her. Shattered growth plate. The image was taken one week after they took the cast off.
http://tinypic.com/r/2ptcc4p/4
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:47 pm
Miss Yip, avoiding a doctor may not have been one of my better decisions. But, considering I found out I was allergic to vicodin two years later, avoiding the meds was
October 22nd, 2009 at 11:05 pm
does cramping while playing the tiger woods golf game on the wii count?
October 22nd, 2009 at 11:16 pm
http://tweetphoto.com/73b293
October 25th, 2009 at 12:23 am
so, its not particularly nasty, but i played rugby for four years in college. knee surgeries in said four years: 3 ACL reconstructions, 1 meniscus repair, and 1 post-op infection cleanup. i stick to drinking with the rugby team now…
October 25th, 2009 at 8:06 pm
I find it hilarious how many more comments this is getting than most posts, really shows where lesbians get enthusiastic.
My personal worst sports injury…. My bike tipped over when the stabilizer hit a pebble at age five? I cracked my elbow and didn’t go to the hospital til the next day because my mum was working a night shift. That’s about as hardcore as I get.
One of my friends broke her jaw when she was hit by the ball in field hockey, that was nasty. She had her jaw wired shut and ate through a straw for like six weeks.
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