scotty: sports injuries

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Three of my favorite things in the world are sports, laughing and people getting physically injured. What happens when you put all 3 of those things together? The answer is simple…………….awesomeness! The following is my top ten list of the funniest/weirdest off-the-field sports injuries of all time.

#10) Joel Zumaya injuring his pitching arm from playing too much guitar hero.

#9) Mike Matheeny missing the MLB playoff because sliced open his hand when he tried to sheath a hunting knife.

#8) Goalie Santiago Canizares misses the World Cup because he drops a bottle of cologne on his foot….and severs a tendon.

#7) Former MLB MVP Ken Camanitti has to miss some time due to a fall from a deer stand while hunting.

#6) MLB player Terry Harper dislocates his shoulder while waving a runner home at the plate.

#5) NBA player George McCloud breaks his foot getting off the couch.

#4) MLB player Moises Alou misses the entire season after falling on the treadmill and tearing his ACL.

#3) MLB player Marty Cordova misses a few games after burning himself severely while napping in a tanning bed.

#2) Pitcher John Tudor gets angry after a bad game and punches an electric fan. (next time use your non-throwing hand if you are going to punch something with blades)

#1) This is the greatest injury of all-time. Former Cub Glenallen Hill has a bad dream about spiders, so vivid that he woke up, crashed through a glass table and fell down a flight of stairs.


I hope you enjoyed all of these unfortunate mishaps. I would love to share some of my own sports injuries, but I don’t have any good ones. Actually, I peed outside between innings when I was ten and contracted a nasty case of poison ivy. I’ll spare you the details though. Ewww!

Blog owner's note: #1 scared me because I have a friend that has night terrors every night. Be careful! I like how these injuries could happen to anyone but we get to know about them (and laugh at them) because they are famous..