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After seeing Jaymie Graham's horrible injury today, it got me thinking. What are some of the worst injuries in AFL.

I heard Hentschel had a bad one. Barlow had a shocker.

Here is the vision for Grahams hit today, do not watch this unless you really want to, it shows the full hit. It isn't however the best of quality so shouldn't be to bad

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eo1p-Zx70c4
 
I always thought Jason Snell of Geelongs was about the most awful looking one I'd seen. Such an innocuous incident that caused it too.

But Graham's might just have it covered.
 

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Chattanooga said:
I always thought Jason Snell of Geelongs was about the most awful looking one I'd seen. Such an innocuous incident that caused it too.

But Graham's might just have it covered.
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Snell's had me in tears. I don't think he's ever been able to run again. Daryn Cresswell's dislocated knee cap that he was trying to bash back into place while on the ground was pretty horrific.
 
Graham's today is up there with Napoleon McCallum (NFL) unfortunately. Really hope recovers and gets full use of his leg again.
 
Looked worse then Trent Hentschels. Wish him a full speedy recovery.
 
There is that old country football story somewhere on this site.

Basically a guy dislocated his hip.
So the medical guys (not professionals due to being a country league) pop the hip back in.

Allegedly however, the guys testicles had gone inbetween the popped hip and the joint, so when the hip was popped back in, it squished his testicles.

If this is true, it would be the most painful.
 
The Reaper said:
There is that old country football story somewhere on this site.

Basically a guy dislocated his hip.
So the medical guys (not professionals due to being a country league) pop the hip back in.

Allegedly however, the guys testicles had gone inbetween the popped hip and the joint, so when the hip was popped back in, it squished his testicles.

If this is true, it would be the most painful.
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You've got to be joking - OMG!! :eek:

Not sure if that's anatomically possible though...
 
Ando727 said:
You've got to be joking - OMG!! :eek:

Not sure if that's anatomically possible though...
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Yeah, that's physically impossible.

Can't top Jaymie Graham's. Knee injuries always look the worst. Michael Barlow's last year was bad in slow-mo, and when he tried to walk it off :thumbsu:
 
Jimmy Hird's facial injuries in about '03 (?). Headbutted a team mate's knee. Apparently the hospital staff said it was as bad as any car accident they'd seen.
 
Not sure about the story involving the hip dislocation, however, hip dislocation is indeed possible.
 

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Brown's injurie a few weeks backwas pretty bad for non knee injuries. Got the knee straight to his head and just managed to stand up and afterwards he looked like he had been hit by a car
 
Jeff White getting kicked in the face a few years back was pretty bad. Not sure if the vid does it justice, mate at the game said you could hear it from the stands:

[YOUTUBE]sGNS7LZnAmk[/YOUTUBE]
 
Will be hard to top this one:

http://www.geelongadvertiser.com.au/article/2011/04/08/252515_news.html

CAINE Devlin was not moving anywhere.

The snapped bone protruding from his left leg was acting like a stake, wedged into the Anakie Reserve turf for 15 minutes, with only a blood-soaked towel offering support.

So graphic was his injury last Saturday, doctors first thought he was a victim of a high-speed car crash.

``I rocked up to hospital and they said, `what have you done, come off your motorbike?', that was the first thing they said to me,'' Devlin said.

``They didn't think it could be a footy-related injury, they were shocked, they'd never seen anything like it.''

Last weekend, just seconds into the new GDFL season, Devlin was crunched in a four-man marking contest in the reserves against North Geelong.

His leg ended up looking like a tree branch after violent a storm, shattered into multiple pieces.
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http://www.geelongadvertiser.com.au/article/2011/04/08/252515_news.html
 
Going back to the early 1990s, a young Saints defender Darren Davies broke his leg very badly in a match in early 1991. Players, officials and spectators nearby were quoted as saying they heard the bone snap.

In Round 5 1992, Tiger defender Brad Gwilliam crashed into a goalpost at Football Park in Adelaide in a game against the Crows. Dead silence came over the stadium as Gwilliam was taken off the ground, the resultant knee injury sadly ending his playing career.

One of the more puzzling was at the MCG in Round 19 1994 in a game between Richmond and Sydney, where Swan Jamie Lawson appeared to trip over on the rain-soaked ground, but in fact broke his leg so badly that tragically he never played football again.

Michael Voss's broken leg in a match against the Dockers in mid 1998 was also a very nasty injury - fortunately he was able to overcome this and continue his magnificent career.
 
Found this clip on Youtube:

[youtube]X3snje3dxcI[/youtube]

I'll always remember the John Barnes one, where he suddenly has an S-Bend in his arm. It's in that video. Along with some of the others already mentioned.....Sickening stuff really.

Also see the Graham incident here:

[youtube]dWqYIheEy3w[/youtube]
 

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The Reaper said:
There is that old country football story somewhere on this site.

Basically a guy dislocated his hip.
So the medical guys (not professionals due to being a country league) pop the hip back in.

Allegedly however, the guys testicles had gone inbetween the popped hip and the joint, so when the hip was popped back in, it squished his testicles.

If this is true, it would be the most painful.
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It was a soccer player. South America iirc. I think it was either Inside Sport magazine or FHM/Ralph when they first started up, that had a section at the back with 'worst' sports injuries. It was in there. They had to take the player to hospital and re dislocate his hip to get his nut back out again.
 
those crazy knee injuries with legs going the wrong way look the worst but ones like tom lonergan where you lose an internal organ and end up in a coma put them into a little bit of perspective.

some people might remember gareth john, sydney ruckman getting a 'broken larynx'

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/05/03/1051876901188.html

In 1990, his first senior season, John polled the most Brownlow votes for Swans, but the following April he almost died from injuries received in a ruck duel against Essendon. John, then 19, received a fractured and crushed larynx and damage to his vocal cords after being struck in the throat in a collision with Simon Madden.
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injuries not unusual with bigger ruckman going against skinny kids. can remember jared brennan at a centre bounce getting bent in half by a knee in the guts, partly because of his own inexperience (ie not putting his own knee up to protect himself).
 
Jaysus, that kick to the face echoed like a shot.

Had to laugh at "he got him with the shin so probably saved some damage... somehow"

The shin is the hardest part of the leg, its one reason kick boxers use their shins to catch kicks because its so hard and solid.
 
Roddy said:
Jimmy Hird's facial injuries in about '03 (?). Headbutted a team mate's knee. Apparently the hospital staff said it was as bad as any car accident they'd seen.
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And he walked off the ground!!
 
emuboy said:
Going back to the early 1990s, a young Saints defender Darren Davies broke his leg very badly in a match in early 1991. Players, officials and spectators nearby were quoted as saying they heard the bone snap.

In Round 5 1992, Tiger defender Brad Gwilliam crashed into a goalpost at Football Park in Adelaide in a game against the Crows. Dead silence came over the stadium as Gwilliam was taken off the ground, the resultant knee injury sadly ending his playing career.

One of the more puzzling was at the MCG in Round 19 1994 in a game between Richmond and Sydney, where Swan Jamie Lawson appeared to trip over on the rain-soaked ground, but in fact broke his leg so badly that tragically he never played football again.

Michael Voss's broken leg in a match against the Dockers in mid 1998 was also a very nasty injury - fortunately he was able to overcome this and continue his magnificent career.
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That made me phyically ill watching that

The worst injury was the collision beteen Steve Waugh and Jason Gillespie in Sri Lanka - yuck!
 

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