ESPN.com Page 2 Year in Review

[terpkristin]

Entire article is here (http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=hruby/051229), but I'd like to point out this "highlight," which made even me cringe:

Aron Ralston plays soccer?
After a kick from an opposing player opened a four-centimeter gash on his penis, a German soccer player sealed the wound with glue, reentered the game and scored a goal.OW!!!

/tk

[Fonzie]

I guess Germany is a few decades behind us in developing cup technology.

[ISiddiqui]

I believe most soccer players don't wear cups. You don't normally get hit there. When I played youth soccer I never wore a cup.

[Fonzie]

I believe most soccer players don't wear cups. You don't normally get hit there. When I played youth soccer I never wore a cup.Really? Good lord, I can't imagine playing a serious, competitive sport involving any degree of contact without a cup. Even baseball players wear cups, and I can't imagine they get hit in the hoohahs more often than soccer players would.

*still shuddering over 4 cm gash on weiner*

[vex]

Really? Good lord, I can't imagine playing a serious, competitive sport involving any degree of contact without a cup. Even baseball players wear cups, and I can't imagine they get hit in the hoohahs more often than soccer players would.

*still shuddering over 4 cm gash on weiner*

Well soccer players are just tougher;)

I also never wore one.

[Desmond]

I wasn't aware that soccer players had penises.

[ISiddiqui]

Really? Good lord, I can't imagine playing a serious, competitive sport involving any degree of contact without a cup. Even baseball players wear cups, and I can't imagine they get hit in the hoohahs more often than soccer players would.

*still shuddering over 4 cm gash on weiner*I'd imagine that a baseball, traveling over 90 mph, is more of a threat to the crown jewels than a soccer ball, traveling well under that speed :D.

[21C]

The only time a soccer player is in some danger of being hit in the goolies is when they form a wall outside the penalty area on a free kick. That's usually when the ball is kick straight at them so you'll often see the players covering up.

[Fonzie]

I'd be less concerned about getting hit "there" by a soccer ball than by a wayward foot/knee. But maybe that just happens a lot less than I'd think - my knowledge on this is limited as I haven't played soccer since the 4th grade.

[Desmond]

I'd imagine that a baseball, traveling over 90 mph, is more of a threat to the crown jewels than a soccer ball, traveling well under that speed :D.

What if the bloke had giant testicles?

[Desnudo]

I don't think football players wear cups do they? At least at the speed positions? You can't confortably run and cut in one. Hockey is the only sport I've played were it was pretty much mandatory.

[jeff061]

I always wore a cup in high school football, I played the meathead positions though.