ESPN Reporting Vikings QB Brett Favre has a Broken Ankle

[RavenSEAL]

No link yet, caught it at the bottom bar while watching ESPN.

 

[phoenix79]

Stress fracture according to ESPN twitter feed

 

[purbeast0]

there is no way in hell he had a broken ankle if he was walking around on it last night, no way in hell.

granted it is brett favre who has taken more of a beating than most QB's have and he is old, but still i'd be VVEERRRYYY surprised.

i have broken my ankle before and yea, even putting 5lbs of weight on it wasn't an option for over a month after surgery.

 

[purbeast0]

double post.

 

[BeauJangles]

Step 1: Make up or exaggerate injury
Step 2: Tearfully describe how you would love to keep playing football, but the injury is preventing you from playing on the level your team and you have come to expect.
Step 3: Walk away from your teammates and your train wreck of a season with a "clean conscious."
Step 4: Jenn Sterger makes huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge profit.

 

[Lamont Burns]

he needed a way off the field

 

[RavenSEAL]

http://twitter.com/SportsCenter

Vikings QB Brett Favre has a stress fracture of his ankle, but will not undergo surgery.

 

[zinfamous]

there is no way in hell he had a broken ankle if he was walking around on it last night, no way in hell.

granted it is brett favre who has taken more of a beating than most QB's have and he is old, but still i'd be VVEERRRYYY surprised.

i have broken my ankle before and yea, even putting 5lbs of weight on it wasn't an option for over a month after surgery.

adrenaline.

he was hobbling around very, very gingerly at the end of that game (I missed most of it). that slip on the last play--especially the way he fell on his ankle, showed you something wasn't right.

with the ankle and his spaghetti arm, I'm really hoping to see a lot of zombie Brett Favre costumes this Sunday.

 

[BeauJangles]

http://twitter.com/SportsCenter

Convenient excuse for his shitty play and a good cover story for protecting his legacy. In 20 years he can talk about he valiantly battled through his final season in the NFL, despite playing on a near-broke ankle.

 

[spidey07]

Osteoporosis makes the bones brittle.

 

[vi edit]

there is no way in hell he had a broken ankle if he was walking around on it last night, no way in hell.

granted it is brett favre who has taken more of a beating than most QB's have and he is old, but still i'd be VVEERRRYYY surprised.

i have broken my ankle before and yea, even putting 5lbs of weight on it wasn't an option for over a month after surgery.

Hard to say...with as much tape (and as tight as they tape them) as he likely had that probably kept the swelling (and thus a lot of the pain) in check.

 

[purbeast0]

adrenaline.

he was hobbling around very, very gingerly at the end of that game (I missed most of it). that slip on the last play--especially the way he fell on his ankle, showed you something wasn't right.

with the ankle and his spaghetti arm, I'm really hoping to see a lot of zombie Brett Favre costumes this Sunday.

yea i watched the whole game, including when he hobbled to the press conference podium.

and yea, no way he could have done that on a broken ankle, as in like an actual clean broken bone, again, from personal experience.

 

[rudeguy]

adrenaline.

he was hobbling around very, very gingerly at the end of that game (I missed most of it). that slip on the last play--especially the way he fell on his ankle, showed you something wasn't right.

with the ankle and his spaghetti arm, I'm really hoping to see a lot of zombie Brett Favre costumes this Sunday.

he also got a series of injections in his ankle. I'd assume that cocktail would make it pretty hard to feel anything. I'm sure he gets a healthy dose of (non-vicodin) painkillers as well.

I don't doubt that he's hurt. I also don't doubt that he's realizing that its time to go back home and hang up his jock.

 

[FDF12389]

I think he'll keep playing

 

[TwiceOver]

All he has to do is hand the ball off for the first play of the game and then limp back to the bench.

 

[Homerboy]

happy trails

 

[joesmoke]

id need to see pics of the bone to confirm... any of those available??

or in the alternative:

wow, his bones seem to be giving him problems lately

 

[RavenSEAL]

id need to see pics of the bone to confirm... any of those available??

or in the alternative:

wow, his bones seem to be giving him problems lately

You could just text him, can't say whether he'll reply with a picture of his ankle or another bone.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

he needed a way off the field

Bingo. He invented a way to be "forced out" rather than quitting.

 

[rudeguy]

Bingo. He invented a way to be "forced out" rather than quitting.

you really do get the hint that they are going to have to drag the guy off the field. You know he wants to quit but has too much pride to do it.

 

[zinfamous]

yea i watched the whole game, including when he hobbled to the press conference podium.

and yea, no way he could have done that on a broken ankle, as in like an actual clean broken bone, again, from personal experience.

I assume you are saying this from a purely technical argument--as in, he can't physically walk on a broken ankle.

As others have said, you can tape that area up quite well and stabilize it enough so that he can limp around. This isn't really anything new in professional sports.

Also, they have ways to deal with the pain.

 

[Gigantopithecus]

wow, his bones seem to be giving him problems lately

i lol'd.

 

[SunnyD]

Life reporting that nobody really gives a shit.

 

[techs]

he needed a way off the field

Bingo. He invented a way to be "forced out" rather than quitting.

That was my first thought, too.
Didn't want to lose his streak to suspension in what is a lost season for the Vikes anyway.

Is it too early for the "is he going to play in 2011" crowd to start yapping?

 

[RavenSEAL]

Life reporting that nobody really gives a shit.

Life reporting that should stop posting that no one gives a shit that you posted no one gives a shit even though i'm replying because you are crapping the thread, gtfo troll, thanks for coming by.