The one about Thurman Thomas really surprised me. Like, how tf do you just not get surgery and still punish defenders? To this day, only AP, Gore, and McGahee are the ones that absolutely floor me. I honest to God thought McGahee was losing that leg. It wss so brutal.
I have never torn any knee ligaments, so that's completely foreign to me. My sister tore her ACL/MCL in the early aughts playing college soccer and all she said was the "pain" was extremely annoying, and almost impossible to sleep with. She said it's not so much you're in constant pain, but more your brain can't turn the pain off once it hits. After surgery she said it was just sore, nothing more.
I assume everybody is different since she was back to practicing at around 6 months. Full practice, not in rehab. Whomever her doctor was he was great, especially considering she tore it her freshman year and still finished her career, and that wss almost 20 years ago, so imagine what they have now. I did tear my rotator cuff, and I shit you not, the pain was so immense that I couldn't have sex or wipe my own ass without getting tension headaches. That shit fucking sucked, and not because I couldn't have sex, but simply I couldn't even shower properly without getting literal blinding headaches and passing out in the shower. I wanted to cry, but can't do that because girls are around. Can't see me in agonizing pain because manly man. Fuck that. I finally after a week set up surgery. I could not live like that.