Worse than Theismann's injury?

Now that it's regulated, it's really no worse than boxing. Though injuries such as this really aren't possible in boxing.

In terms of sheer "holy shit!" factor, this has Theismann's break beat. Yuck.

 

Holy shit that was disturbing

 

WFW

I would like to see a few more slo-mo frames right before contact.

And this really didn't bother me as much as I thought it would.

 

That's entirely possible. Dave Dravecky and Tom Browning broke their arms just trying to throw a ball.

 

Maybe he had a stress fracture he didn't know about? It could have gone from the force of the kick.
Just speculating.

 

In terms of pure graphic-ness (if that's a word), I'd say that's the worst I've seen. The fact that the guy is in shorts and bare feet (as opposed to football pads/shoes) and that there's a clean camera angle only adds to it.

Theismann will always be the gold standard because he was a famous player and it was Monday Night Football, but this one really looks worse.

As for the stress fracture theory, that was the talk going around after Prothro's injury. He took a low shot on a punt return early in that game and limped off. The broken leg only finished off an earlier injury.

 

Remember that high school cross country runner a couple years back? Girl in Ohio had a stress fracture, but wanted to run her last race at the state meet. Doctors told her not to, she did anyway, and she was in the top five or top 10 until she got about 50 yards from the finish. Then, her lower leg pretty much exploded.
Tough little thing crawled the last distance and finished the race. There was a camera at the finish line that got footage of the injury. Not quite as bad as this, but still pretty gruesome.

 

It wasn't that bad to watch. I mean it was, but it's so bizarre and looks impossibly fake that I guess it made it easier to watch.

 

Yeah, it's so cartoonishly terrible that it's not really that bad.

 

I've read all the responses and I'm debating whether to click the link.

 

The Stretch Armstrong reference above is accurate. Dude's lower leg resembles Gumby.