October 25, 2010

Graphic: Why Eric LeGrand is Paralyzed: "The two players exert 833 pounds of force on each other -- more than the resulting force of a 150-pound world class sprinter running at top speed into a brick wall." The Star-Ledger has produced an infographic analyzing the tackle that left Rutgers player Eric LeGrand paralyzed. More coverage from the paper.

posted by rcade to football at 02:47 PM - 8 comments

Looks like there's a missing closing i-tag on this story - see the front page.

posted by kokaku at 01:58 PM on October 25, 2010

The "perfect storm" title of the graphic is a bit misleading: it doesn't take anything like that amount of force to cause a c-spine injury when you go head first. Unfortunately.

posted by lil_brown_bat at 02:19 PM on October 25, 2010

Looks like there's a missing closing i-tag on this story - see the front page.

Whew, thought my eyes were going...

posted by MeatSaber at 02:23 PM on October 25, 2010

Cut it out.

posted by yerfatma at 02:48 PM on October 25, 2010

only an admin can fix it now.

posted by scully at 02:52 PM on October 25, 2010

or Chuck Norris.

posted by smithnyiu at 06:00 PM on October 25, 2010

Cliff Lee fixed it.

posted by rcade at 06:44 PM on October 25, 2010

more than the resulting force of a 150-pound world class sprinter running at top speed into a brick wall."

Holy crap!!!

posted by Drood at 02:13 PM on October 26, 2010

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