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October 25, 2010
Graphic: Why Eric LeGrand is Paralyzed: "The two players exert 833 pounds of force on each other -- more than the resulting force of a 150-pound world class sprinter running at top speed into a brick wall." The Star-Ledger has produced an infographic analyzing the tackle that left Rutgers player Eric LeGrand paralyzed. More coverage from the paper.
The "perfect storm" title of the graphic is a bit misleading: it doesn't take anything like that amount of force to cause a c-spine injury when you go head first. Unfortunately.
posted by lil_brown_bat at 02:19 PM on October 25, 2010
Looks like there's a missing closing i-tag on this story - see the front page.
Whew, thought my eyes were going...
posted by MeatSaber at 02:23 PM on October 25, 2010
Cut it out.
posted by yerfatma at 02:48 PM on October 25, 2010
only an admin can fix it now.
posted by scully at 02:52 PM on October 25, 2010
or Chuck Norris.
posted by smithnyiu at 06:00 PM on October 25, 2010
Cliff Lee fixed it.
posted by rcade at 06:44 PM on October 25, 2010
more than the resulting force of a 150-pound world class sprinter running at top speed into a brick wall."
Holy crap!!!
posted by Drood at 02:13 PM on October 26, 2010
Looks like there's a missing closing i-tag on this story - see the front page.