rmorse;3634275; said:
Men are such wimps? That video did not show a guy breaking his ankle.....The first one showed a man getting his entire legged CRUSHED.....freaking flattened. The next one showed a man getting his tibia and fibula (and possibly his femur, couldn't see very well) FOLDED IN HALF.
Theismann's career ended on
November 18,
1985 when he suffered a gruesome comminuted compound fracture of his leg while being
sacked by
New York Giants linebackers Lawrence Taylor and
Harry Carson during a
Monday Night Football game telecast. The injury was voted the NFL's "Most Shocking Moment in History" by viewers in an
ESPN poll, and the tackle was dubbed "The Hit That No One Who Saw It Can Ever Forget" by
The Washington Post.
[9]
At the time, the Redskins had been attempting to run a
"flea-flicker" play. The Giants' defense, however, was not fooled, and they tried to
blitz Theismann. Taylor pulled Theismann down and his hip swung over and landed on Theismann's lower right leg, fracturing both the
tibia and the
fibula. Giants linebacker
Gary Reasons then joined Taylor in the sack.
"It was at that point, I also found out what a magnificent machine the human body is", Theismann said. "Almost immediately, from the knee down, all the feeling was gone in my right leg. The
endorphins had kicked in, and I was not in
pain."
[9]
As Theismann lay on the field, a horrified Taylor frantically screamed and waved for
emergency medical technicians. Initially, however, many Redskins personnel thought Taylor's screaming and pointing directed at their sidelines was a taunt over the fact that he'd successfully stopped their play. Taylor has said that his animated behavior was largely a claustrophobic reaction to having been trapped at the bottom of the pile that followed his tackle.
[10] The
Monday Night Football announce team (composed of
Frank Gifford,
O. J. Simpson and
Joe Namath) deduced from the start that Taylor was calling for help.
While initially only the players on the field could see the extent of the damage to Theismann's leg, the reverse-angle instant replay provided a clearer view of what had actually happened - Theismann's lower leg bones were broken midway between his knee and his ankle, such that his leg from his foot to his mid-shin was lying flat against the ground, and the upper part of his shin up to his knee was at a 45-degree angle as the two linebackers brought him down on the sack. The image of his lower leg bending at such an unnatural angle has become one of the most infamous football injury images ever.
women r just tooooo good 
