TOP 50 SPORTS INJURIES ACCORDING TO THE LONDON TIMES

by DCScrap, Our Book of Scrap

Here in America what we would consider the Top 50 sporting injuries probably looks a little different than to those across the pond in London. I mean, who here wouldn't have Theesman's chicken leg getting snapped as #1? Not to mention any of these three. But do the Brits see it the same way? Well, some enterprising young lad at the London Times has taken it upon himself to rank sports injuries. Why do I think his rankings and mine are going to be a tad different? Especially considering that at a quick glance I have literally not heard of half of the people he lists.

Without further ado, let's see what the Brits find gruesome and entertaining...

For some reason he links to this injury, but left it off the list. Too gross or what?

#50 is some dumbass who shaved his head and got sunstroke. You're gonna have to bring it harder than that, England.

Okay, now we're talkin'. At #48 is Dave Dravecky returning from cancer only for the bone in his arm "to snap in his next start against Montreal with a sound that could be heard around the entire stadium." Yeah, that was a goodun'.

Uhhh, in #46 they refer to Coco Crisp as a second baseman. Maybe the Times should stick to politics.

#42 Hasim Rahman's second head. Never fails to make me laugh.

#41 Any kickboxing injury involving the snapping of tibias. Like this one or this one.

#38 Barbaro. How is this not #1?! Blasphemer! Somewhere Dee Mirich weeps.

#36 Vince Coleman getting trampled by the tarp. Stupid? Yes. Gruesome? No. Top 50? Eh.

#35 JoePa.

#17 Sid Vicious - the wrestler not the singer. SNAA-AP!

#14 Gus Frerotte? Slamming your head against a wall is not worthy of this ranking.

#11 Salim Sdiri getting spiked with a javelin.

#5 Allen Ray getting his eyeball dislodged is an always excellent choice. Ranks right up there with Chasity Melvin getting her eyeball knocked loose in an WNBA game, only, you know, in a sport people watch.

Thessman is number THREE?! Three?!

#2 Clint Malarchuk ... yeah, that was pretty nasty.

AND #1, of course, is somehow, David Beckham...

Many of the closest relationships end in spectacular bust-ups and Beckham’s falling out with Sir Alex Ferguson was splashed across the front pages of all the tabloids. Ferguson was fuming after his Manchester United side lost 2-0 to arch rivals Arsenal in the fifth round of the FA Cup in February 2003 and lashed out with his foot at a stray boot in the changing room. Of course, he had no intention of hurting poor Goldenballs (who would want to contend with a furious Victoria down the training ground the next morning?) but, with the unerring accuracy of a Beckham free-kick, the rogue piece of footwear avoided the wall and curled towards the head of United’s star player, opening up a nasty cut that bled profusely. Beckham was furious and later needed two butterfly stitches to stem the flow of blood.

Uh ... what?!

This is a better injury than that and I don't even know who the guy is!

And this is better.

Even this if you have to go the soccer route.

And they even left off, to me, the greatest sports injury of all-time. Alex Zanardi getting both of his legs lopped off in a CART race. Oh, wait, they say why they left it out. It "is not included in the list because it would be in appalling taste." Then they linked the video of it. Yeah, that makes sense.

So who and what else did they/we leave off the list?