{"id":894,"date":"2009-01-19T03:42:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-19T03:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/01\/19\/2009-1-19-football-side-note-html\/"},"modified":"2018-06-13T01:27:17","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T01:27:17","slug":"2009-1-19-football-side-note-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/2009-1-19-football-side-note-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Football Side Note"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nfl.com\/photo\/photo-gallery?chronicleId=09000d5d80e2fc15\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px;\" src=\"http:\/\/static.nfl.com\/static\/content\/public\/image\/getty\/2009\/09000d5d80e34c9b_gallery_600.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"New aftershave?\" \/><\/a>Friends,<\/p>\n<p>After watching the crushing hit on Willis McGehee during the AFC playoff game this evening (&#8220;oh, he&#8217;s surely dead.&#8221;) and when his body was taped down to the cart to trundle off the field, I was stuck by all of the continued pounding and slapping. The man has perhaps had his neck broken, his head held still by a trainer, and teammates still felt the need to slap his shoulder pads. A hearty handshake. A not-so-high five.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, he could eventually &#8220;move his limbs&#8221; as Doctor Jim Nantz pronounced from the announcer booth, but a broken neck, people. He was complaining of &#8220;neck pain.&#8221; Broken neck. Hello? Good gravy. Idiots.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; bob<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends, After watching the crushing hit on Willis McGehee during the AFC playoff game this evening (&#8220;oh, he&#8217;s surely dead.&#8221;) and when his body was taped down to the cart to trundle off the field, I was stuck by all of the continued pounding and slapping. The man has perhaps had his neck broken, his &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/2009-1-19-football-side-note-html\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Football Side Note&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":995,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions\/995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}