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Originally Posted by wutamess
In his defense. They instruct soccer goalies to throw like that because you can tear the rotator cuff throwing those bigger balls the normal way. I'd throw like that if I was a NFL QB as well.
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I tore my labrum throwing a dodgeball overhand when I was 23; had a girl on my own team ducking in front of me who stood up just as I was ready to release so I tried to drop it down around her head rather than smoke her in the dome and just wrecked my shoulder (this is why women shouldn't be allowed in foxholes, that kind of situational awareness is just inexcusable...)
More than a decade later my arm is still hamburger after back to back nights of softball. We played flag football last weekend and I quarterbacked for about half of it and by the end I couldn't raise my elbow parallel to my ear and the best I could do was about 25-30 yards downfield even if I stepped into it. Now I never had a D1 caliber cannon, but my arm was my strength as a baseball player and that's an easy 15-20 yard hit in what I could do before the injury. I can't even hit 60 on a gun anymore whereas I could hit 80 on occasion in college. Ortho has said there's no point in surgery because there are enough small tears in the shoulder that he'd have to stitch up a dozen different spots and the odds of them all healing right are so remote that I might as well just focus on pain management. He said I can't really hurt it any worse, so if I can grit through it, I'll be fine.
All from a single awkward throw with a goddamn dodgeball. So yeah, I kinda give Smith a pass for that one. Throwing a dodgeball overhand can **** things up quite a bit if you're just a bit off and for someone that makes his living throwing a football, I'd probably have sat it out entirely.
Still pretty funny though.