Most horrific ever? The tackle was clean and wasn't especially violent. What little we know suggests that this was a concussion layered on top of a concussion on Sunday, hence all the wincing when Tua went down and stayed down. I realize that head injuries are particularly scary but I can't imagine this is near the top of worst NFL "injuries." Without specific knowledge (I was too young), I recall the hit that ended Joe Theismann's career was particularly brutal. But they didn't have HD (much less 4k) broadcasts back then or social media, so it probably didn't resonate as much.
Theismann's recollection:
yeah, I don't think you understand the ratio of what I'm talking about here, when I mean "horrific." And yes, I fully expected some jamoke to come and here and toss some legendary split bones and hips or whatever.
Yes, we all know about those. It's terrible to watch. it's painful and uncomfortable...it's, eh,
broken bones. This isn't the fucking 2nd Dynasty of fucking Egypt when you fully expected someone to die from that, pretty damn soon. Even like, a Pharaoh with their then-omnipotent power...
Bones look nasty but there is nothing horrific about any of those. Not even close.
This was pretty much very to close to watching an upper vertebra shatter and shrapnel through skull, or some crazy shit with the why his brain stem pretty much shut down for a couple of seconds, and did a fucking cache clear, and lucky, very fucking lucky, seems to have rebounded a bit?
I dunno, we haven't heard much, really. I'm still hazy about what kind of mush is left up there right now.
Point is--it was like possibly watching a dude kill another dude on TV.
and I would not be surprised if at this point with the kind of hits he has taken from his college career to now, that dude is might be dealing with some Parkinson's like symptoms at a pretty terrifyingly early age.
and lol, no--that was not really clean. There was a bit of slinging going on there. You can't turn a QB into your shotput hammer, lol.