While preseason football is largely pointless, and frequently boring, it does have tons of meaning to players on the bubble who are on the brink of either making an NFL roster, or searching through the wanted ads like the rest of us schlubs. Hard Knocks has survived for 15+ years by milking the drama caused by this.
So flash forward to Saturday afternoon where, with just two-and-a-half minutes left in a preseason contest between Chicago and Kansas City, Bears third/fourth-string quarterback Connor Shaw broke his leg when the Chiefs' Rakeem Nunez-Roches rolled his 307 pound frame over it. Afterward Shaw, no doubt feeling the stress of a lost season (and also, well, a broken leg) took to his Twitter account to comment on a Vine of the play, calling it "cheap BS!":
On Sunday morning Shaw deleted his tweet. Still, thanks to video of said gruesome injury, you can watch it and come to your own conclusion whether he removed it due to a change of heart, a call from a PR staffer, or because he simply came down from his pain meds. Be warned that's it's kind of graphic. And though a big fat lineman is fortunately positioned to block the worst of it, it can still probably make you squeamish if you're weak in the stomach:
Looks fair from over here. But then again who the hell made us the judge of everything? Fortunately Shaw still feels optimistic as evidenced by this more positive tweet from the hospital that he left up:
Get well soon.
