TK Jr injured?

#127
#127
I'm glad TK Jr. is okay. It could have been worse from that fall.
I'll never forget that game-winning interception he made.

Hoping he makes a full recovery and looking forward to seeing him play this season.
 
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OH-Vol said:
Sounds like a potential domestic violence case, mental/emotional issues, coincided with poor play since early in his career. Why should he remain on the Tennessee football team?
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Sounds like booze and adrenaline plus some bad decisions to me... typical of a college kid.

Also, guys, you dont attempt suicide at 30 ft unless youre jumping into a highway. Be real now. He was prob drunk, showing off, when the accident occurred.
 
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Orange Maniac said:
30 Feet? I'm calling B.S. on that. You don't drop 30 feet and come out unscathed.
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Normally, you'd be correct. But due to whatever you want to call it, quirks of physics, a miracle, or guardian angel help, you can go unscathed. I fell 25 feet from a big oak tree when about 6 years old and hit a wooden fence on the way down. Was playing Tarzan and the usual sturdy limb broke. Lived to tell the tale. As a college student, I was riding a bicycle on the wrong side of the road. I got hit head-on by a car. I went over the car, the bike went under it, the driver didn't stop. despite wearing a t-shirt, shorts, and no helmet and sliding about 15 - 20 feet after hitting the pavement, I was unharmed. The bike having gone under the car was semi-folded. Last summer, I stupidly, stupidly, stupidly was cutting an overhanging tree limb in my backyard while using a ladder to reach the cutting point. But see, I was using an electric chainsaw. I was at least ten feet off the ground. I lost my balance. I had the presence of mind to throw the chainsaw opposite of where I was coming down. It bounced back toward my landing place, mere inches from me. I hit the ground hard and just knew I had broken something. Nope, I was fine but the winding down of that chainsaw was unnerving to see just inches from my shoulder and neck. TK likely had one of those fortunate falls where he got darn lucky he didn't break his neck. Such things do happen.
 
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#132
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I was five years old and sitting on the weeping willow tree branch I used to climb to in the back yard. The tree was massive and the roots were like trunks themselves sticking out of the ground, the kind you mow around to avoid the blade getting stuck. I fell out of the tree and landed on my back. It felt like a pillow. I just bounced back up and kept playing, realizing that whoever was in charge decided it wasn't my time to go yet.
 
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WoodsmanVol said:
Normally, you'd be correct. But due to whatever you want to call it, quirks of physics, a miracle, or guardian angel help, you can go unscathed. I fell 25 feet from a big oak tree when about 6 years old and hit a wooden fence on the way down. Was playing Tarzan and the usual sturdy limb broke. Lived to tell the tale. As a college student, I was riding a bicycle on the wrong side of the road. I got hit head-on by a car. I went over the car, the bike went under it, the driver didn't stop. despite wearing a t-shirt, shorts, and no helmet and sliding about 15 - 20 feet after hitting the pavement, I was unharmed. The bike having gone under the car was semi-folded. Last summer, I stupidly, stupidly, stupidly was cutting an overhanging tree limb in my backyard while using a ladder to reach the cutting point. But see, I was using an electric chainsaw. I was at least ten feet off the ground. I lost my balance. I had the presence of mind to throw the chainsaw opposite of where I was coming down. It bounced back toward my landing place, mere inches from me. I hit the ground hard and just knew I had broken something. Nope, I was fine but the winding down of that chainsaw was unnerving to see just inches from my shoulder and neck. TK likely had one of those fortunate falls where he got darn lucky he didn't break his neck. Such things do happen.
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I did one of those stupid, stupid, stupid things while working on my sisters house ten years ago. I was on a small ladder that was on a scaffold (stupid part), feet a little over ten foot off the ground. The scaffold tipped away from the house. I managed to get away from the ladder, but did an inward half and landed on the left side of my back.

I was not fortunate, but I was 45 when it happened. Total damage was four broken ribs, five fractured spinus processes, grade 1 compression fracture of T11 and a collapsed lung.

I have to look on the bright side though. I have three cervical vertebrae (C5-7) fused four years prior and if I would have rotated just a bit less it would have surely killed me..

Moral of the story, don't do stupid sh!t, but if you do, it's best to do it when you're younger, more flexible and in better shape.
 
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WoodsmanVol said:
Normally, you'd be correct. But due to whatever you want to call it, quirks of physics, a miracle, or guardian angel help, you can go unscathed. I fell 25 feet from a big oak tree when about 6 years old and hit a wooden fence on the way down. Was playing Tarzan and the usual sturdy limb broke. Lived to tell the tale. As a college student, I was riding a bicycle on the wrong side of the road. I got hit head-on by a car. I went over the car, the bike went under it, the driver didn't stop. despite wearing a t-shirt, shorts, and no helmet and sliding about 15 - 20 feet after hitting the pavement, I was unharmed. The bike having gone under the car was semi-folded. Last summer, I stupidly, stupidly, stupidly was cutting an overhanging tree limb in my backyard while using a ladder to reach the cutting point. But see, I was using an electric chainsaw. I was at least ten feet off the ground. I lost my balance. I had the presence of mind to throw the chainsaw opposite of where I was coming down. It bounced back toward my landing place, mere inches from me. I hit the ground hard and just knew I had broken something. Nope, I was fine but the winding down of that chainsaw was unnerving to see just inches from my shoulder and neck. TK likely had one of those fortunate falls where he got darn lucky he didn't break his neck. Such things do happen.
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I know what you're saying. Last year at 50, I was out with my X-game team nailing some rad 1440's when I got all big headed and tried the ol 2880. Well, long story short, I blacked out from the G's coming out of the bowl. which was a good thing cause I went over the edge, free fell 100ft into a rock jutting out which threw me into the pine trees. I fell 50ft through the trees onto a box of rusty nails. Thankfully, I walked away with some scratches and a bruise. Now, had I not blacked out. Who knows. b/f?
 
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Surely UT has some programs in place to help students get back on track. He needs some counseling and hopefully he is open and honest about everything.
 
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volfannbama said:
Sure you can depending on how you land. Saw someone fall 55 and was fine.
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Yep. 30 feet is about 10 yards. If one is looking to end it all, a 10 yard drop isn't your best bet. Having said that, if all this nonsense is true, the kid needs some help or next time, he might decide to do it right. Something isn't wired right in that head. As a former player, football requires a certain mental toughness to go with the physical aspect. Hard to imagine how his teammates can feel confident in him on the field when things get tough. Is he a fighter or a quitter? Based on this episode....if true....I have my suspicions as to the answer.
 
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CAVPUT said:
Yep. 30 feet is about 10 yards. If one is looking to end it all, a 10 yard drop isn't your best bet. Having said that, if all this nonsense is true, the kid needs some help or next time, he might decide to do it right. Something isn't wired right in that head. As a former player, football requires a certain mental toughness to go with the physical aspect. Hard to imagine how his teammates can feel confident in him on the field when things get tough. Is he a fighter or a quitter? Based on this episode....if true....I have my suspicions as to the answer.
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I know they have never diagnosed him with any concussions. At least to my knowledge, but something isn’t right here. If he has this bad of a mental issue that he would seriously consider doing this, then he needs to hang up the pads. CTE is no joke and they are starting to see it in more younger football players. For his sake I’d say it might be time to quit, if he is having serious thoughts about suicide.
 
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dyllisvol42 said:
I know they have never diagnosed him with any concussions. At least to my knowledge, but something isn’t right here. If he has this bad of a mental issue that he would seriously consider doing this, then he needs to hang up the pads. CTE is no joke and they are starting to see it in more younger football players. For his sake I’d say it might be time to quit, if he is having serious thoughts about suicide.
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Yep. I've seen these warning signs before. Parents always want to believe "nah, not my child" and they blow it off. They tell themselves "he's got it all"....every good thing they'd hoped for he has. Got the great HS career, the scholarship, the prestige of the name university, etc... The future is all laid out. Everything is falling into place just as planned. Then they wake up 15 years, three stents in rehab later and wonder how they could have missed the problems. Blinded by the stage and football. Their son now facing the fight of his life and he's only 30. They see the future through worried eyes now. They get up every day wondering if this is the day the bottom falls out. They dread the phone ringing fearing the worst has come to pass. Their sons future is nothing like they'd hoped for. Instead of game days on Saturdays, they focus on day to day with prayers for healing and that God will heal their son and restore his body and mind and that he will simply live a healthy, happy life. That becomes the dream. That becomes the reality. Hope the Kelly's see this before it's too late.
 
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WeAreTheRealUT. said:
Do all you people have psychiatry degrees? How do we know this was nothing more than too much booze, thinking your girlfriend in flirting with someone else in a bar, and picking a fight with the guy and girlfriend? Happens every day. Booze and women combined with jealousy often does not work out well.
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When you live it in your own family and see numerous examples firsthand including rehab, prison and funerals among friends, patients, etc, you don't need someone with a damned psych degree to tell you there's a problem. Everyone gets jilted. Everyone feels jealousy. Almost everyone gets hammered at one time or another, but not everyone seeks to end their life over it. You don't blow this off as being a little drunk and a little jealous. Sticking ones head in the sand and pretending it's just a "youth thing" is a mistake. Then again this is a message board. Preaching here doesn't change a thing. Nope....this is for the kid and his parents to work through. Hope they aren't blowing this off as some youthful mistake he will grow out of. Really hope that's all this is, but life has taught me some tough damned lessons that to my eternal regret, I was too slow to learn. Hope they don't make the same mistakes. Painful is far too mild a term for that feeling.
 
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#145
#145
Acting goofy can always result in an injury. I thought TK was more level headed seems he suffers from an enormous temper.
 
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Orange Maniac said:
Then you witnessed a near miracle. A 50 to 60 foot drop is almost always fatal. 30 feet usually causes major damage like broken ribs, collapsed lungs and broken bones at the minimum.
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I read previously in this thread that he fell over or from a retaining wall. Just a theory, but most retaining walls are built at an angle so maybe he did not fall in a straight drop, but hit the side of the wall as he was falling, thus avoiding more serious injuries.
 
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Article is easy to find if you search online.

He climbed a rail and was at the bottom of the wall after telling his girlfriend he was going to kill himself - Police Report.
 
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Wonder if the bottom was sod or concrete. The latter would cause serious injuries from a thirty foot fall. Sod would be more forgiving.
 
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Vol Main said:
Wonder if the bottom was sod or concrete. The latter would cause serious injuries from a thirty foot fall. Sod would be more forgiving.
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Grass/dirt didn't show me much mercy. That said, I do realize it would have been worse if it were pavement..
 
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