Here's our list of the top five dumbest injuries suffered by athletes...
[From The List: Five dumbest injuries suffered by athletes | FanNation]
For the record, Wikipedia repeats this story - without citation, but it's a story I've heard from several other sources over the years - about former University of Minnesota fullback Bronco Nagurski who played for the Chicago Bears from 1930 to 1937:
A time-honored and almost certainly apocryphal story about Nagurski is that on one occasion carrying the ball, he was charging toward the goal line, head down, shoving tacklers out of the way, and that he ran right through the end zone and smacked his head on the close-in brick wall at Wrigley Field, cracking the wall. When he came back to the bench, he told coach George Halas, "That last guy gave me quite a lick!"
After retiring from football Nagurski opened a service station in International Falls, MN, where the local legend was that once one became a Nagurski customer one remained a Nagurski customer for the duration of a car's life, because nobody else in town was strong enough to remove the oil filler cap once Nagurski had screwed it on.
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