I hate threads like this. The thread subject line should not sound so
matter of fact for something so upsetting. IMO. How about something like:
RUMOR: Bill Simmons thinks Brady has rib injury
In 1957 Johnny Unitas played with broken transverse processes in his back and used the first flack jacket. In 1958 when the Colts beat the Giants in what was probably the best championship game of all time he had fractured ribs and was again wearing a flack jacket. I could be wrong on these since I got them out of old Sports Illustrated Magazines. I played hockey in college with fractured ribs and could barely breathe so I hope that Tom does not have a rib problem. It will be hard to breathe and if he gets hit, he will feel like he will die.
When Brady ran off the field and into the locker area, the TV announcers made the same comment. They also showed that he had some type of rib pads as he was lifting his shirt.
Easy to speculate and doubt Simmons has a source that can verify this.
I hate threads like this. The thread subject line should not sound so
matter of fact for something so upsetting. IMO. How about something like:
RUMOR: Bill Simmons thinks Brady has rib injury
For as tough as Brady is... I wonder why he eschews so many bits of safety equipment. He wears practically a kicker's helmet (remember quarterbacks used to wear helmets with facemasks that had an extra bar at the bottom which helped them from getting cracked on the jaw?) and now he doesn't wear a flak jacket until afterwards?
Like it or not, the guy sets a standard people follow. He should be on the leading edge of safety equipment.
I know, it's not technically his responsibility but...it'd just be nice.
It's one thing to do it in a bike race (guy is still tough as nails though). It's another animal, completely, to do it in a football game. Anybody that's broken ribs in a game can tell you that.
Having ditched into a tree because I was going downhill at high speed on a bicycle I found had no brakes....I can say there's probably a great deal of variation among cracked rib injuries.
Lots of players play with bruised or cracked ribs from contact. My doctor asked me about pain from the broken collarbone and told me I had a very high threshold for pain when i told him I hardly noticed it. The reason was it hurt so much to breathe, or move because of the ribs.
Maybe an MD can chime in, but unless those players are androids, they aren't playing with that type of rib injury IMO.
I'm pretty sure you can technically break, or fracture (same thing) ribs while still not affecting the motions you need too much.
If Brady is playing with cracked ribs and Moss is playing with a bung back, the these two seasons deserve to go down as some of the greatest performances of all time. They are both majorly inhibitive injuries.
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