As NFL betting enthusiasts know, the outcome of a game can depend on key players avoiding injuries, not always an easy task in the NFL when your job is to charge head-on into 300-pound guys who are charging right back at you. But not all injuries take place during play, and NFL players can be as clumsy as the rest of us, as this list of the top seven stupidest injuries in NFL history proves:
#7 Ravens wide receiver Derrick Mason breaks his wrist while playing golf for charity
A golfer injuring himself while running for a pass in football sounds like an injury waiting to happen, but a wide receiver getting injured while teeing off in golf? Definitely embarrassing.
#6 Broncos quarterback Brian Griese trips over his dog while going down the steps
Thus proving professional athletes can be as clumsy as the rest of us.
#5 Redskins Quarterback Gus Frerotte headbutts a wall
It was a padded wall, but Frerotte’s excitement over scoring on a one-yard run got the best of him, and he ended up in the hospital with a sprained neck.
#4 Receiver Brandon Marshall trips on a McDonald’s wrapper and puts his arm through the TV
Marshall severed an artery and a vein in the process of sticking his arm through the TV and ended up with a damaged nerve, cut tendons and took three months to recover. His ego is still a little bruised, though.
#3 Kicker Guillermo C. “Bill” Gramática tears his ACL in a celebratory jump after making a field goal
He didn’t even jump that high, which makes it even funnier. His ego definitely suffered more than his ACL on this one. The video of this on YouTube is hilarious: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK81Ej5hm8s
#2 Giants wide receiver Plaxico Burress shoots himself in the thigh
Shooting yourself in the thigh at a nightclub is embarrassing enough, but Burress was wearing sweatpants, to boot. Reportedly the glock pistol he had tucked in the waistband of his sweatpants started to slip and, in reaching for it, Burress shot himself. He’s still in jail on weapons charges.
#1 Jaguars punter Chris Hanson axes his own foot with a locker room prop
This is probably the weirdest injury, and definitely one of the stupidest. Jaguars coach Jack Del Rio had installed a wooden stump in the team’s locker room, complete with an axe, in an effort to encourage the team to “keep on choppin’ wood.” Many of the team members took swings, but Hanson was the only one who missed the wood and hit his foot instead.
Now every good criminal knows – take no pictures, DENY DENY DENY. This kid decided it would be a really great idea to take a picture of himself burglarizing a house. What makes it even better, is that he used the victim’s cellphone to take the picture.
