OT: Bears player Zach Miller in danger of losing leg after injury
October 30th, 2017 at 10:00 AM ^
or is this something new. Of all the things that can happen playing football, I never worried about losing a leg. losing your career to a leg injury, yes, losing your leg, holyshit.
October 30th, 2017 at 10:07 AM ^
I don't remember hearing about this type of story at all until the past few years. I'd like to hear analysis from somebody with knowledge on this stuff.
October 31st, 2017 at 12:14 AM ^
Pretty sure this is the same injury that ended The career of Antonio Bass.
Damn...... what might have been.
October 30th, 2017 at 10:09 AM ^
I work with vascular surgeons. I’ll ask my buddy this question and reply back if this thread is still on the front page.
October 30th, 2017 at 10:19 AM ^
There are about 5-6 arteries that anastomose with the main popliteal artery right behind the knee cap. I'm guessing the dislocation tore up those arteries and compromised blood supply down to the anterior/posterior tibial artieries further down.
October 30th, 2017 at 10:30 AM ^
The popliteal is the main arterial supply to the leg below the knee and dislocation is alway a risk for tearing it. It can typically be repaired depending on the severity of the case. I don't know how bad his case is but there's a good chance he'll be okay longterm. Not sure about his playing career.
October 30th, 2017 at 11:08 AM ^
There's vein and artery thingies in the knee place, and doctors can usually fix them if they're broken, but maybe not all the way.
(That aside, I hope Miller makes a full recovery - truly scary stuff.)
October 30th, 2017 at 11:38 AM ^
Thanks. I was wondering if they thought he had chlamydia.
October 30th, 2017 at 11:24 AM ^
If you're talking losing the leg, its a popliteal transection/rupture and any branch injury near the knee would be pretty negligible.
Very bad, you get about 6 hours to fix it from time of injury. The entire lower leg blood supply comes off the pop (AT/PT/peroneal)
October 31st, 2017 at 3:14 AM ^
gets really mangled after the knee is dislocated, then they have to perform a bypass..
October 30th, 2017 at 11:35 AM ^
My thoughts exactly
October 30th, 2017 at 10:20 AM ^
I think even the mogboard crazies will be ok with a new post on this
October 30th, 2017 at 10:10 AM ^
The body takes a lot of punishment in this game. At some point it can only take so much. I agree in that it's a very rare instance, but football players are getting bigger, faster and stronger every single year. WIth that, the level of danger in the game increases.
I don't know when it's going to happen, and I hope it never does, but at some point someone is going to get hit so hard they die on the field.
October 30th, 2017 at 10:14 AM ^
chuck hughes, a wr for the lions, died on the field after a hit by dick butkus in the early 70s.
October 30th, 2017 at 10:15 AM ^
No.... Chuck Hughes died of a heart attack. Butkus had nothing to do with it, except that he was the first to notice Hughes drop to the field and frantically wave the docs over.
October 30th, 2017 at 10:21 AM ^
i am old enough to have seen that live. scary business.
the thing about the miller injury is that the play and catch were something that happens a 1000X a game or practice, no contact or collision, just running. hope they can work that safely back. it would seem with the technology that exists these days an opttimistic outlook might be reasonable. hope so.
October 31st, 2017 at 9:55 AM ^
Of my parents. They were in the front row when he died on the field.
My mom was very upset for a long time.
October 30th, 2017 at 10:24 AM ^
It certainly seems like there are a ton of guys getting season ending injuries this year.
October 30th, 2017 at 10:22 AM ^
I am waiting for someone to blame leg-loss in contemporary football on "liberal Millennial snowflakes". It's coming...
October 30th, 2017 at 10:25 AM ^
sadistic child-eating demon clowns
October 30th, 2017 at 10:54 AM ^
Please leave. Just stop it.
October 30th, 2017 at 10:56 AM ^
Maybe lighten up a bit, Toby?
October 30th, 2017 at 12:04 PM ^
Toby Flenderson knows no chill.
October 30th, 2017 at 12:29 PM ^
I found it hysterical...
October 30th, 2017 at 10:59 AM ^
Miller was born in 1984- he's a Millennial! Dick Butkus or Joe Greene would've just walked it off.
October 30th, 2017 at 11:59 AM ^
cut it off, rubbed some dirt on it, and kept playing
October 30th, 2017 at 11:17 AM ^
in my day, we often faced third and dismemberment
October 30th, 2017 at 12:03 PM ^
...but only if you were a proletariat
October 30th, 2017 at 10:02 AM ^
This is why you don’t screw around with player safety. If Newsome’s injury had happened at Purdue he would have likely lost his leg.
October 30th, 2017 at 10:02 AM ^
To have a full recovery.
October 30th, 2017 at 10:05 AM ^
I hope he is getting the best medical area available...a damn shame to lose a leg this way and I hope that he doesn't. It's the sort of publicity the sport of football doesn't need.
October 30th, 2017 at 10:05 AM ^
Good thing the game wasn't played at Purdue.
October 30th, 2017 at 10:19 AM ^
they may have applied leaches to him
October 31st, 2017 at 3:31 AM ^
while his throat was swelling closed. He needed a Tracheotomy but the only young doctor who wanted to perform it was voted down byt the older doctors who wanted to get the bad blood out.
October 30th, 2017 at 10:24 AM ^
"You know what you need? A good blood-letting!"
"But I'm bleeding already?!"
"Hey, who's the barber here, hmmm?"
October 30th, 2017 at 10:50 AM ^
One of my most favorite all-time SNL skits...
October 30th, 2017 at 11:59 AM ^
but leeches are still used. Including at U of M hospital.
October 30th, 2017 at 10:06 AM ^
The NFL players union sucks. How these guys have the worst contracts in sports is beyond me. There were more than a few over the weekend looked like they had know idea where they were after a hit. Hope they save his leg.
October 30th, 2017 at 10:17 AM ^
The owners wouldn't make as much money if contracts were guaranteed. This, and players can't get unified enough to strike for the benefit. The union is only as strong as it's members, and players will never sit for a whole year, or more.
October 30th, 2017 at 11:27 AM ^
It shouldn’t be beyond you when you literally lead off your post with why their contracts are so bad.
October 30th, 2017 at 12:39 PM ^
It is beyond me that the players just dont shut it down. Look at baseball. You have to be willing to fight and the FB players wont I guess. Until then bend over.
October 30th, 2017 at 10:22 AM ^
very scary. at least its just in time for him to be a pirate for halloween...
October 30th, 2017 at 7:09 PM ^
way to be a dick and cause me to question the sophistication of my sense of humor.
October 30th, 2017 at 10:24 AM ^
The nfl rule changes have made defenders start going lower to avoid a personal foul / targeting penalty. As a result we are seeing more knee dislocations, broken legs, and torn ligaments.
October 30th, 2017 at 10:44 AM ^
But Miller wasn't injured because of the rule, and Newsome was injured inspite of a rule to prevent this type of injury.