Tuesday, October 28, 2008

The Marshall AD should be ashamed...

So, I'm sitting here watching the Houston @ Marshall game on ESPN2 here tonight and this poor WR for Houston is just running his route trying to make a catch and he runs out the back of the endzone... only to have his leg broken and mangled by some "awesomely" placed wagons/carts.

UNF#@$ING BELIEVABLE MARSHALL! How dare you leave something like that so close to the field and even worse... UNATTENDED! It's not like they left a couple of sports bags and the WR stepped on them and broke his ankle. No, that would be understandable. They left 3 or 4 oversized wagons just off the field of play and as this WR was running out the back of the endzone (warning what I'm about to write is pretty graphic)... his foot went under the wagon's "basket" and yet his body was going over and it pretty much snapped his leg. I was instantly sick to my stomach watching this and would like to give major props to ESPN2 who then decided to show the replay in slow-mo a good 5 more times. Thanks guys!

I really don't understand why they were left where they were left to begin with! Why not roll them out of the endzone... or behind the benches against the wall where they are less likely to have someone running full speed towards them? I feel so badly for that kid right now. Why couldn't someone at least put something in front of the cart? Why was no one standing next to or in front of them? At least someone could have warned the kid running at them. Extremely poor placement Marshall.

I hope that Marshall will do something to reverse the damages, but you and I both know they won't... so, I hope they get sued, and I hope they have to pay BIG! Yes, accidents happen but that should have never happened. That one is on the Herd and I feel so sorry for that kid.

EDIT: The WR that was injured was Freshman Patrick Edwards. He was doing exceptionally well this season before the injury. Let's hope he can re-hab and come back next season and shove that in Marshall's face!

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