A Playoff Win I will NEVER forget...

[82CardsGrad]

Gonna add my comments on the game itself in other threads, but let me tell you why I won't forget this game and why, just sitting here typing right now hurts like mad...

After the game ended and we were done hugging and high-5ing everyone in sight, my wife and I walk out of the stadium when she remembers she left her coat at our seats... Well, we walk back in and over to our section, and are promptly told that we can't get back down to our seats (Section 102, Row 11) without an escort... some STUPID rule about when the game ends you can't get back to your seats...
Anyway, as our section in clearing out, I can this couple standing right next to my wife's jacket, so I lean over the railing and start screaming to them to pick up the coat. The railing bar came up to my mid-thigh, and what I didn't realize was that I was standing in a puddle of spilled beer. So......... as I'm leaning and screaming, my feet suddenly slip out from under me and guess where 82 goes? Yup... feet fly over my head as I fall forward and flip over the railing... I flew about 7 down to a couple of rows of empty seats. I'm told I first landed on my head and then bounced down to the next row. However, my head doen's really hurt at all... It's the 2 cracked ribs that are killing me!!!! Not sure if anyone else saw a guy wearing his #40 Pat Tillman jersey attempting to look like Superman,
but the look on the faces of the EMT dudes and the others who saw me was at first scary, and then priceless... They all couldn't believe I got up and walked away from the scene.
Anyway, spent all night in the ER (very cute nurses who were very friendly!)... Never dealt with cracked ribs before... It doesn't appear like it's gonna be a lot of fun for the next few weeks...


edit: It was 7 feet - NOT 77 feet!!! LMAO... vicodin... gotta luv it!

 

[Perfectionist]

Did your wife get her coat?

Great story!

 

[Jersey Girl]

Did you get the coat back?

Sorry to hear about your mishap, 82. I have never cracked ribs, but I know from watching others go through it that it is NOT fun. Hang in there.

 

[ajcardfan]

Dude, people die from falls like that! Your wife must've freaked!


Glad you were able to walk away from it with just a couple of cracked ribs!

 

[82CardsGrad]

Dude, people die from falls like that! Your wife must've freaked!


Glad you were able to walk away from it with just a couple of cracked ribs!

Yes - my wife did get her coat back!

And yes aj, I can't begin to describe how lucky I feel... How I didn't get knocked out or worse is beyond me...

 

[PACardsFan]

Wow! Consider yourself fortunate that you didn't sustain a head injury. While those ribs heal, and they will, keep sick people out of your house. If you get a cold, along with sneezing & blowing your nose, you will be MISERABLE. I remember my Dad cracking ribs playing basketball many years ago. He had a cold & they had to tape him up like a mummy because sneezing was like slamming your hand in a car door.

 

[Mulli]

Wow! Glad u ok.

 

[82CardsGrad]

Wow! Consider yourself fortunate that you didn't sustain a head injury. While those ribs heal, and they will, keep sick people out of your house. If you get a cold, along with sneezing & blowing your nose, you will be MISERABLE. I remember my Dad cracking ribs playing basketball many years ago. He had a cold & they had to tape him up like a mummy because sneezing was like slamming your hand in a car door.

Oh - I learned that one real quickly... Last night while in the ER, I sneezed... and then screamed as if someone had stuck a knife in my back! This is gonna suck!

 

[O]

I'm glad you're ok 82.
Rib injuries are the worst, and take forever to heal.

 

[Sandan]

Yep been there done that quite a few times, occupational hazard, occasionally taking a kick in the floating ribs.

Yes it hurts big time, could have been much worse. Glad it wasn't

 

[TJ]

Ouch!!! I gasped reading your story. Glad it wasn't worse, but you're certainly gonna be sore for a few months

 

[BirdMan21]

Cracking or breaking ribs SUCKS. I cracked 3 back in HS playing football when I got blindsided and wasn't wearing a flack jacket. Pretty much for the next 4 months every time I sneezed, coughed, or laughed I felt like I was gonna die. So whatever you do, don't sneeze, cough, or laugh till they are fully healed.

 

[thirty-two]

Wow! I am glad you just got cracked ribs and that's it! Heal up quick, man!

 

[Red Hawk]

. I'm told I first landed on my head and then bounced down to the next row. However, my head doen's really hurt at all...

Thick skin thick skull.

Typical CARDS FAN.

 

[Redrage]

Gonna add my comments on the game itself in other threads, but let me tell you why I won't forget this game and why, just sitting here typing right now hurts like mad...

After the game ended and we were done hugging and high-5ing everyone in sight, my wife and I walk out of the stadium when she remembers she left her coat at our seats... Well, we walk back in and over to our section, and are promptly told that we can't get back down to our seats (Section 102, Row 11) without an escort... some STUPID rule about when the game ends you can't get back to your seats...
Anyway, as our section in clearing out, I can this couple standing right next to my wife's jacket, so I lean over the railing and start screaming to them to pick up the coat. The railing bar came up to my mid-thigh, and what I didn't realize was that I was standing in a puddle of spilled beer. So......... as I'm leaning and screaming, my feet suddenly slip out from under me and guess where 82 goes? Yup... feet fly over my head as I fall forward and flip over the railing... I flew about 7 down to a couple of rows of empty seats. I'm told I first landed on my head and then bounced down to the next row. However, my head doen's really hurt at all... It's the 2 cracked ribs that are killing me!!!! Not sure if anyone else saw a guy wearing his #40 Pat Tillman jersey attempting to look like Superman,
but the look on the faces of the EMT dudes and the others who saw me was at first scary, and then priceless... They all couldn't believe I got up and walked away from the scene.
Anyway, spent all night in the ER (very cute nurses who were very friendly!)... Never dealt with cracked ribs before... It doesn't appear like it's gonna be a lot of fun for the next few weeks...


edit: It was 7 feet - NOT 77 feet!!! LMAO... vicodin... gotta luv it!

Look at it this way, you'll have one hell of a story. I cracked ribs on both sides of of my rib cage in one accident (skateboarding) when I was in high school. I didn't feel right for months. Here's hoping you have a speedy recovery.

 

[DemsMyBoys]

Am really glad you are semi-all right!

We sat 5 rows from the top and were making jokes about being so high we could just pitch forward and fall right out of the seats.

Hang tough and heal quickly. Your in my prayers. Seriously!

(After abdominal surgery I learned not to laugh or yell. So free advice: Next week pound on something to express yourself. It will help.)

 

[cardsfanmd]

I cracked two in my teenage years and yes, that SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!. I feel for you. It isn't just the sneezing and coughing, but the yawning too. You need to make a note at your door that tell anyone who intends to enter that yawning is not allowd, being as it is so contagous. My friends used to come over and yawn on purpose to be funny. My mom used to get so mad at them.

 

[82CardsGrad]

Thanks for all of the comments and well-wishes guys. I love this place...

Can't believe how much worse I feel as the day wore on today. It hurts to simply breathe. Getting up and down, coughing, sneezing and other normal body functions are excruciating...

This sucks....

 

[O]

Thanks for all of the comments and well-wishes guys. I love this place...

Can't believe how much worse I feel as the day wore on today. It hurts to simply breathe. Getting up and down, coughing, sneezing and other normal body functions are excruciating...

This sucks....

Wait unlit you try and sleep.

 

[82CardsGrad]

Wait unlit you try and sleep.

I'm hoping the vicodin gets me thru... Between the multitude of beers and drugs yesterday, sleeping last night on my back was not so much an issue... However, it's all worn off now and the pain is really setting in. Tonight will not be fun...

 

[Skkorpion]

Wow. Wish you well.

 

[RedViper]

Get better soon 82. I'm sure glad it wasn't worse. We'd never get over it. Man those ribs are going to hurt. I hurt some ribs watering skiing years ago, I don't even think they were broke and they hurt for weeks. Hopefully yours will heal fast.

 

[AzCards21]

Thanks for all of the comments and well-wishes guys. I love this place...

Can't believe how much worse I feel as the day wore on today. It hurts to simply breathe. Getting up and down, coughing, sneezing and other normal body functions are excruciating...

This sucks....

That's not the worst part, you are now part of our lucky streak. I will stop by and steal your wifes coat on Friday and after we win break two more of your ribs. Way to take one for the team 82!



Glad to hear you came out with such small injuries could have been much worse.

 

[Dback Jon]

Glad you are ok, 82

 

[phillycard]

Damn 82. I bet you feel like you played IN the damn game. Glad you're okay.