Plonk article very good read

[JBJake]

Originally Posted by Mumtaz

I want somebody here familiar with football and baseball to give us a list of maybe the past 20 noticeable injuries they've heard about this latest season.

And then I'm going to compare those injuries to the same in a horse. And see how many of those players would have to be euthanized if they were a horse.

Would Barry Bonds be a good example? Granted his injuries didn't occur this season but seems he fits in this thread.

[Riot]

The fatality rate in TB racing is two-tenths of one percent. That's 0.002

The reason some injuries are fatal is because of the obvious - horses are designed to walk 18 hours a day, not stand still for hours, not lay down for hours. How impotent-feeling and frustrating is that, to have to euthanize a horse for something repairable in many other species?

An Olympic skier who dislocates an ankle and has a spiral fracture of the other leg on the downhill, doesn't have to be dead.

People both in and out of the sport seem to fail to understand this.

[sumitas]

Seriously, BTW always has good insight and some humor even. The rest of you all are horses patooties. Phewww, p u...