Kilmoll the Sexy wrote:Not everything is some coverup by an organization. The guy broke his leg....that is a major injury to someone who has to run or block against another NFL player.
Never implied that it was a coverup, just that the Eagles front office might not have fed the media the 'whole truth'.
Team doctors are on payroll, they tell the media what the front office tells them to say. There are a lot of psychological battles fought before the actual football game. If TO was questionable to play in the superbowl, the Pats would have had to have a number of different gameplans to compensate for that. From the look of how they played, they kept the gameplan they would have used if TO had not been in the game... no double coverage and he was played soft for most of the game.
I'm not doubting his injury.
It was obvious that he was not 100% during the game.
He's a tremendous athlete and he should have been able to exploit the pats defense even more if he had been 100%.
I'm simply entertaining the possibility that his injury was blown way out of proportion.
actually, Jack Youngblood broke his fibula in 1975 (maybe 76) for the LA Rams and he played the second half of that game.
Speaking of intestinal fortitude, in 1964 Bob Baun of the Toronto Maple Leafs scored the winning goal for the Stanley Cup on a broken leg.
