Technically, Oklahoma quarterback Sam Bradford suffered a sprain to the AC joint when he was slammed to the ground on Saturday night after throwing a pass late in the first half of the Sooners’ Cowboys Stadium contest against BYU.
In lay terms, it’s a separated shoulder, a description that has disappeared from athletics parlance over the past few years, possibly because it sounds so bad.
In Bradford’s case, it apparently is.
John Taylor of CFT has the details.
I’m surprised you’re not blaming Bradfords shoulder injury on the new Cowboys stadium stadium, maybe it was the video board that caused it….
Nobody cares about CFT! Accept it.
Until the draft when he IS or ISN’T drafted, leave news like this where it belongs.
The injury looked way worse than a sprain, OU is hiding the true magnitude of the situation.
Just so nobody else clicks the link, hes out 1-2 weeks.
If it ends up turning out that he misses the whole season, then all he has to show for it is not getting stuck with the Lions if that was something that he didn’t want, but he still will lose possibly an amount near $10M from having missed one extra year of NFL football in his career.
BUT, if he has a SERIOUS injury and is NOT the #1 pick next year, he could lose countless millions that make the $10M amount look like chump change. He could in the grand scheme of things end up losing multiple tens of millions under some theoretical scenarios.
Let this be a lesson to other young kids, IF you have a chance to make millions of dollars being an athlete, don’t be stupid and pick school. Take me for example, I have an education from a prestigious university and I scored a job my first year out of school that paid $90k in the first year. But you know what’s interesting? The job was in sales, and that company hires people for the same job I had even if they don’t have a high school degree. My eduction didn’t help me get the job one bit, they gave me the job because I was willing to travel a lot and I said I could sell.
So I didn’t have an option to play sports for money, and I still could have made more money by skipping school not realizing that a degree isn’t really worth the full amount of what people perceive it to be worth. I’m not saying a degree isn’t important of course, just that the perception of society places a higher value on it than it’s real value. Just one of the many things in life that people can’t seem to objectively evaluate accurately.
Here’s what you should do if you have a friend/family member in Bradford’s situation. Print up some fake money, say $20M worth. Fill up some garbage bags fill with the bills and then tell them to hear your argument to go pro. Then dumb the cash in front of them so they can visualize what a pile of millions looks like, and ask them if they still want to walk away from that and losing all of that cash. So the question is……
DEAL OR NO DEAL?…..
Hint: Take the frakking deal!
so florio,
you’re saying that trainers have stopped calling tearing in the tendon that connects your shoulder-blade to your collarbone just that, possibly because it sounds so bad?
color me skeptical
This has nothing to do with Brett Favre, Michael Vick, or Seinfeld.
I signed up for an account just to say that, “I don’t care one sh!t about college football.” I love PFT otherwise. Thanks!
Sorry for the typos by the way. I’m always on here just typing while not looking at the screen in a lazy fashion and I don’t consider the comments page from a user-standpoint as a qualified scenario that requires professional effort.
It’s not a separated shoulder. A separated shoulder is when the head of the humerus slips out of its normal position within the glenoid cavity. An “AC” sprain refers to damaging the acromioclavicular joint, or the place where the scapula meets the collarbone. Two different injuries. Maybe you should do a little homework before pretending to know what the hell you’re talking about when it comes to injuries.
What is most shocking to me is that Landry Jones is the best the Sooners could do with a replacement.
Even worse is that Jones was so woefully unprepared to play.
The Sooners season is over before it even started.
blackglass says:
September 7, 2009 4:13 PM
This has nothing to do with Brett Favre, Michael Vick, or Seinfeld.
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It also has nothing to do with Tom Brady.
Which means,………why are you here?
This is an NFL story, unfortunately, because this kid could have and should have applied for the draft and made $millions. He’s lost $20 million to $30 million with this injury. He is the new example on why players should not stay in college.
I registered just to tell jimmy_c that he needs to stop pretending he knows what the hell he is talking about. An AC sprain/separation is known commonly as a shoulder separation.
You said, ” a separated shoulder is when the head of the humerus slips out of its normal position within the glenoid cavity.” That is describing shoulder subluxation/dislocation.
You can borrow my old anatomy and orthopedics books that I used in med school. After you’ve done that, then you can come back on here and act like you know something about sports injuries.
“Pastabelly says:
September 7, 2009 5:04 PM
This is an NFL story, unfortunately, because this kid could have and should have applied for the draft and made $millions. He’s lost $20 million to $30 million with this injury. He is the new example on why players should not stay in college.”
Other good examples would be Mike Williams and Maurice Clarett.
jimmy_c highlights why the term “separated shoulder” has faded in recent years, as Florio points out, because dumbcraps like jimmy_c cannot distinguish between the words “separated” and “dislocated.”
Raynemd is right. The AC joint is between the acromion process of the shoulder blade, and the clavicle. AC, get it? That joint is a ligamentous joint, held together by fibers, which if they tear, are hell to heal. By definition, a sprain is damage to ligament.
A shoulder dislocation is when the humerus comes right off its proper seat on the glenoid process of the shoulder blade. This is a synovial joint. It’s a capsule full of fluid, where the bones glide against each other via cartilage. Its held together mainly, not completely, by muscle, the “rotator cuff.” Basically, you have two fundamentally different shoulder joints within an inch of each other. One to tie the clavicle tightly to the shoulder blade over the top, the other to allow the humerus (upper arm) to pivot just below it.
You can find your AC joint real easy. Hold one arm out to your side perpendicular to the body. Take your opposite hand and press down in that divot between your deltoid and trapezius muscles. There it is. Now rip that point apart front to rear and you know how the Oklahoma QB feels.