In case you needed a reminder that football players are much tougher than you and I, here's a photo of Dallas Cowboys linebacker Sean Lee and the clubbed cast he's playing with on Sunday. And to think, I was pretty proud of myself for showing up to work (my couch) today with a sore throat and mild case of the sniffles.
Lee dislocated his wrist while tackling Michael Vick in the Cowboys' Week 9 win over the Philadelphia Eagles. For the first few days after the injury, Lee couldn't be fitted with a cast because his wrist was so swollen. He wasn't on the field last week in the Cowboys win over the Seattle Seahawks, but practiced this week with the cast.
Do the refs check those casts like officials do before boxing matches? What's to stop Lee from loading a roll of quarters into the end of it to get a little extra mustard on his hits. Besides not playing for the Detroit Lions, of course.
One last point: Advances in medical technology are a miracle of modern times. Evidently though, science has yet to make a cast that does not pick up grass stains while tackling Washington Redskins' ball carriers.
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