Got sacked in HS football as I was fighting upfield to my left. My right knee buckled sideways under the weight of a defender. Befor the paramedics got to me, I was lying on my back with my head at twelve, my left leg and upper right leg at 6, and my lower right leg at 9. Paramedics popped it back in and taped me up.
I had the "unhappy triad". A snapped ACL (anterior cruciate ligament), snapped MCL (medial collateral ligament), and torn cartilage.
Happily, I was fortunate enough to get Dr. Russell Warren (the NY Giants' team doctor) to fix it. I was playing again the following year (with a screw, a staple, and a patellar tendon graft). I generally know when it is going to rain, but other than that, it has held up amazingly well all these years.
Used to play the tape in slow mo', back and forth. Kinda looked like Joe Theisman going down under LT.....
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