Selection Sunday-NCAA tournament thread

Run 'em. People should know the truth, especially if it's horrible.

 

I think people know the truth when they see the other players react like that - not sure how much is to be gained by showing those.

I will admit to being much more squeamish than most about this sort of thing, but I honestly wonder about the humanity of people who seek out footage of things like that on YouTube knowing what they're in for.

 

Checked with the Sunday desk and remined him of the rule I have on auto racing wrecks: No driver's ed photos.

 

Know the truth? Are there allegations of a cover up?

We've heard the descriptions, there was a broken bone sticking a few inches outside the skin and blood all over the place, not sure why folks need to see the actual pictures/video of that to understand it.

 

I can see that argument too, as much as it is the polar opposite of my last post. And what would local TV news show if it weren't for wrecks and fires? But the first thing I thought of was Theisman, then Buster Posey in 2011.

 

I'm sure plenty of us watched it. I didn't see the game, so I watched the tape. Three times. It wasn't a bloody scene, and it helps understand serious sports injuries. I could picture it from some of the written descriptions, and it still was a lot different on tape. And it shows exactly how Ware came down that way. The second and third time I watched it was to make sure I saw what I thought I saw.

"Humanity" has nothing to do with it. Or everything, conversely.

 

I have an autographed copy of Stanley Forman's Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of the people falling to their deaths when a fire escape gives way in a Boston fire. That photo won the Pulitzer for a reason. Reality is our business. Reality often sucks. Not every reader watched that game on TV.

 

Joe Theismann's reaction:

A shiver went through Joe Theismann as he sat inside his Loudoun County, Va. home office Sunday, watching the Duke-Louisville NCAA tournament game. The horrific right leg injury suffered by Louisville guard Kevin Ware caused the former Washington Redskins quarterback a nightmarish flashback.

"My world just came to a complete stop, it was just a horrible, horrible thing to see happen -- I hate to see anybody have an injury that is anywhere near anything like I went through,'' Theismann told USA TODAY Sports. "All of a sudden, it's, 'Oh my God!' "

http://usat.ly/1194epK

 

Steinberg's point could probably be extended to wondering why we watch football at all, depending on how you look at the CTE issue.


I can see your point, Riptide, and it's certainly a reasonable position, although it's not one I'd take; just knowing the guy landed awkardly on one foot and the leg snapped is enough for me, and I don't need to see it. What I had in mind are people who would want to see it repeatedly (many more than your three viewings), and find such things amusing. I find that sickening.

 

A movie such as "Natural Born Killers" is a lot more shocking to me.

 

I watched the replay over and over, just to see the reactions of the bench, the players and the coaches. Looks like the crowd saw it too.

Poor kid.