That question is why are there professional football players getting injured with an axe? It doesn't happen every year but the fact that any pro athlete is side lined by getting hit with an axe is a little disturbing. The latest victim is Josh McCown the would be starter of the hapless Miami Dolphins. Turns out while he and younger brother Luke were cutting fire wood at his residence in Jacksonville, Texas Luke, who was holding the log got his right index finger chopped. He needed 6 stitches and with training camp around the corner who knows if he'll be in any shape to compete for the job in Miami.
I have to ask first, who the hell is chopping fire wood in July....in Texas? Second, you are a professional athlete and even though you don't make the big money you should certainly be able to afford to heat your house without need of fire wood. Or at least be able to pay someone to chop it for you right? I also have to wonder about the technique used in this accident. The thought of holding a log while someone else swings an axe at it seems pretty crazy. Did Josh draw the short straw or were he and brother Luke sipping on a little bit of grandpa's cough syrup? Either way this is one of the more bizarre accidents in sports that has to rank up there with the punter in Jacksonville swinging an axe at a stump and hitting his own leg to Jeff Kent breaking his arm washing his truck (or whatever he claimed to be doing). I guess if nothing else this gives the Dolphins more reason to attempt to trade for my extended stiff of the week Brett Favre!
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