Write a post and include #sportstalk and #sts-contest in your tags for some massive profitsssssssssssssssss.
Each week (or something like that) a different topic for the post will be chosen and to get the ball rolling this week, the topic is sports related injuries.
Yeah I know, not the most uplifting of topics and perhaps not the time to bring up a double leg break (unless you want to!), but there is plenty of scope for poetic licence and comedy.
Take 's amazing rise to stardom, and then dramatic fall from grace for instance:
I'm not sure how high my magnificent leap was, 10 or 15 metres at least, in my mind, but probably much less than that in reality. I felt the wind catch the board a little as I rose and fell.
.... I went down, the board hit the water and its natural buoyancy thrust it back skywards, in a leap that probably rivaled my own, tearing it from within my tenacious galenkp-chopper-grip. source
A few years ago, I was playing pool against the one of the entertainment staff members at a hotel in Portugal. A couple of drinks in, and with slightly sodden shorts from water polo not long prior, I felt confident about whipping this guy on a flat surface, as he had dominated the polo whilst i drank a lot of pool water.
We were half way through the first game, and I stepped up for my shot, slipping slightly on a puddle. My foot stopped sharply as it went from wet to dry, and it was then that I realised this was mostly due to my 2nd toe folding underneath my foot. It hurt a lot, and I couldn't even finish the game. For the rest of the holiday I was limping and having people laugh at me when I told them what happened. When I got home the doc told me I'd probably broken it, but there was not much that could be done. A broken toe playing pool, lame as you can get!
Something like that, but with a bit more chunk would be ideal.
- Points for embarrassment
- Points for comedy
- I'll remind my STS buddies of the #sts-contest so they can dish some votes out
- 50,000 SPORTS to the best one, chosen by myself and my extensive advisory team of no-one, as yet
- A sports related injury you suffered, caused by you or some other 'idiot'
- Don't forget the #sportstalk and #sts-contest tags or else I might miss your post
The floodlights man, they got me source
Good luck!
Asher