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Mack North wrote: View PostFunny, he'll have this forever linked to his name even though it could turn out to be totally false. Women get away with a lot in this world and men just basically gotta sit back and take it. By that, I mean they can beat the shit out of you or trash your place if you've been caught cheating or doing something "wrong". Had a crazy slash my tires a few years back because I stopped talking to her, but it wasn't on camera so nothing could be done!
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Apollo wrote: View PostNaw, if this is false it'll be forgotten about. I mean Peyton Manning was accused of rape after the draft of his rookie campaign. It went nowhere and he went on to have a long, happy career. It only came up again close to retirement. Then there's Ray Lewis.... I think he's ok if he's innocent and is a nice person or appears that way in public atleast.
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Smith's memory of the injury, sustained in November against the Chargers: He caught a pass, then felt a pull in the back of his leg, and then, "It was like my foot had no power. It was flapping." Then he went down, thinking dark thoughts. The trainers came running.
"What's the matter?" one said.
"I think I tore my Achilles," Smith said.
"Roll over, let's see," the trainer said, examining his right leg.
And then, in a whisper, "I think he's right."
Smith draped a towel over his head, put his arms around the shoulders of trainers and hopped off the field.
It wasn't supposed to end that way.
He had a double rupture of his Achilles—an injury that his surgeon, renowned Charlotte orthopedist Robert Anderson, would later tell him was the first double rupture he ever had seen.
During surgery, the damage was photographed.
What did it look like?
"Raw, shredded chicken," Steve’s wife, Angie, says.
"Either the beginning or the end of something," Steve says.
On that day in November, it seemed to be the end—and not the ending Smith had intended.
The 2015 season was supposed be a celebration for Smith of the completion of a 15-year career. It was supposed to end with a bow, not his body looking like shredded chicken.
Medicine has come a long way. I try not to imagine how gruesome that injury was.
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