This year on This weekend in NFL stupid, we’re focusing on one extremely stupid winner with an honorable mention or two on a weekly basis. To close out Week 8 of the 2015 regular season, we look back on a freak injury that can be pinned on careless stadium infrastructure.
The winner: St. Louis Rams
For whatever reason, the St. Louis Rams have a strip of exposed concrete only about 10 yards beyond the sidelines at Edward Jones Dome. Inexplicable, really, when you consider how dangerous concrete is to high-speed football players in spikes as well as the fact it would be a rather simple task to place a carpet or some padding over that area.
But no, the Rams have left the concrete exposed. And on the play above, it might have ended Reggie Bush’s career…
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Torn ACL.
Freak accident? That’d be easier to buy if this hadn’t happened one week earlier…
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This has to result in a lawsuit, right? At least one, maybe several….
The runner-up: New York Jets quarterback Geno Smith
Smith made a lot of bad decisions Sunday, but he earns the runner-up here mainly for believing that this was a good idea on a first-down play in the second quarter…
