This weekend offered two of the best football games of the year, both of which I watched, though turning on the television for Sunday’s games was slightly harder after reading Dan Le Batard’s account of Jason Taylor’s fifteen painful years in the N.F.L., in the Miami Herald. Among the…
I knew a guy who played Division II football in the NCAA. They were liberally given their own vials and syringes for injecting Novocain into their knees, ankles, feet, and hands. And when I say liberally, I mean they were given as much as they wanted and were dosing themselves without any supervision, pre game, halftime, at practice. All in an attempt to cover old injuries and soreness, as well as to be able to take a fucking beating (or give one) without feeling pain in those areas. At least not until the next morning after they woke up.
This was Division II football. I can’t imagine what they do in the NFL.
To him this was totally normal and acceptable. And that’s just Novocain.
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