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Any lower-body injury for a person over 251 pounds is life-threatening

If you weigh more than 251 pounds, any injury that you have below your waist is a severe issue. It's life-threatening.

Hot TakeLifeScorchingSarcastic
This is a satirical claim not based on medical fact.
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HankHank

Kevin Durant is a front-running coward and a baby back bitch

Kevin Durant, pros. He's probably top three NBA player, probably best scorer, pure scorer in the NBA. Cons, skinny knees, slouches, and is a coward, front-running coward, and a baby back bitch.

Entirely a subjective character judgment common in sports media at the time.
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Losing an eye is actually a performance-enhancing drug for basketball players

I'm going to go with hurt, not injured on this one. So if you lose an eye, you don't have to worry about depth perception. It's like when you're shooting a rifle, you close one eye... Losing an eye is a performance-enhancing drug.

Losing an eye severely inhibits depth perception, which is critical for basketball shooting and movement.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Tom Brady is injury-prone because he spent 12 years on the injury report

Is Tom Brady injury-prone? That's what it sounds like to me. It sounds like he's a China doll. Yeah, been on the injury report more than any other player. Got bit by the injury bug.

While technically listed on the report more than most, Brady was famously durable, playing until age 45 with very few games missed due to injury.
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Big CatBig Cat

Cyborg Santos is only 'hurt' despite a fractured skull because Russell Westbrook played with a similar injury

So hurt or injured. I'm saying hurt. simply because Russell Westbrook had this same injury. He dented his face, and I think he scored like a billion points after that.

The injury was life-threatening and required surgery with a metal plate; Santos never fought again, meaning he was definitively 'injured'.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Human evolution is not real because our testicles aren't protected by a rib cage

I think this really proves, though, is that evolution is not real. Because if you think about it, if evolution was real, like the most sensitive part of the male body, what is it doing just like hanging out there in the open? It should be like horses. It should be like inside. There should be a rib cage around your balls protecting you. A ball shield.

Hot TakeLifeScorchingSarcastic
Scientific fact clearly contradicts this comedic assertion.
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Horse racing is actually the most humane and best possible life for a horse

If these horses weren't racing, they would be obese and they would die much earlier of heart conditions and things like that. Or they'd be wild. They'd fight each other and kill each other. So horse racing is probably the best thing for a horse's life. [It is] most humane.

Hot TakeLifeScorchingSarcastic
The claim is scientifically and ethically dubious, as racehorses face significant physical stress and injury risk not present in natural settings.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Pablo Sandoval will be just as good from the right side as the left side next year

So his right hand is going to be getting a lot of exercise. He's got a wipe, J-O, you name it... flash forward to next season, he might be just as good from the right side as he is from the left. So keep an eye on that.

Sandoval's career continued to decline and he never regained his previous form from either side of the plate.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Quarterbacks with broken feet are only 'hurt' and should still play because you don't throw with your foot

There's a difference between being hurt and being injured. Anyone who's ever played high school football knows that. If you have a broken foot and you're a quarterback, you should still get out there and play. You're only hurt because you don't throw with your foot. You throw with your hips, you throw with your eyes.

Absurd satirical logic that is physiologically incorrect for professional athletes.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Kids should preemptively tear their ACLs like a Tommy John procedure

If a running back was born without two knee ligaments, then they wouldn't have had their entire life to become over-reliant on their knee ligaments, and they'd actually be fine. So what I'm advocating is almost like a Tommy John type deal. It's an operation for the young kids. You preemptively tear both your ACLs, and so then that way they have more time to unlearn the bad habits that you get from playing on healthy knees before you become a pro.

Deliberately absurd medical advice satirizing the 'tough it out' mentality. Compares preemptive ACL tears to Tommy John surgery as a development tool.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Jason Pierre-Paul is injured because the game is literally called football, not handball

He's been sitting out the past couple of weeks with a blown up hand, really milking it. And the name of the game is literally football. How important is your hand? This isn't pinch ball or smoke a cigarette ball. And again, it makes sense that a guy who lost both his thumb and forefinger is out there missing snaps. So I'll give this one to him. I'm not happy about it. JPP is injured.

PFT grudgingly concedes JPP, who lost fingers in a July 2015 fireworks accident, is legitimately injured. The literal verdict 'JPP is injured' is accurate.

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