North Carolina starting quarterback T.J. Yates has a sprained thumb on his throwing hand, and won’t be able to toss a football for six weeks.
According to Kevin Best, UNC’s director of football communications, Yates’ finger will be in a splint for the time being.
The 6-foot-3 signal-caller suffered the injury while playing frisbee during a recent team picnic.
I guess that is like your humble blogger tearing the tendon in his middle finger playing basketball. Actually it is nothing like that and I am wondering what the heck Yates was doing to injure his thumb that severely. Were they playing with disc golf drivers instead of a standard frisbee? Good thing Yates did not do something like jump into a pool from the frat house balcony, that would probably break his leg.
In light of this I am going to agree with Deadspin: Put him in bubble wrap for the rest of the summer.
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Man! The ole injury bug again. Hope he is able to get well soon.
Frisbee? Good grief…
What does a torn middle finger tear feel like?
Surely you people have played ultimate Frisbee?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVqT4ef-VmA
(Pickup at 4pm, every Saturday & Sunday, Anderson Field just off 54 outside of Carrboro)
I played it a ton in college and cannot imagine screwing my thumb up unless I fell on my hand. The disc simply does not come with a enough force in my opinion to injure your hand. If you were throwing a hard edged disc golf driver you could do some damage when catch that.
wb3,
It actually does not hurt, you finger just will not stay straight.
http://www.eatonhand.com/hw/hw015.htm