The Injury Bug Bites Again, Again

by Direckshun on Aug 21, 2008 2:09 PM CDT

To add to the already insane list of injuries this team has compiled this summer, add another one to the list: up-and-coming WR Will Franklin:

Rookie wide receiver Will Franklin left practice shortly before its end today with what he said was a right knee injury.

Franklin hobbled off the field with help from one of the team's athletic trainers. He later walked in the locker room without assistance.

I think one of you out there tempted the football gods. I don't know who it is yet, but I'm going to sniff you out and smite you myself before we lose the other half of our football team.

I'd get my affairs in order and get out of town if I were you. Make yourself right with Jesus and tell your closest you love them. You will be worm food by sun-down.

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I am telling you it is Herm!

Look at his last year in NY! The guy is jinxed, as a former player he must have pissed the football gods off bad! He might think about making the deal with Obama, the anti-christ to get his team healthy!

by Eric Allen on Aug 21, 2008 2:31 PM CDT reply actions

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A lame political joke? Really?

by Mully on Aug 21, 2008 2:39 PM CDT up reply actions

I hope

that this string of injuries turns out to be us getting rid of the injury bug in the preseason – maybe we’ll be healthy through the 16 games that count…

by PVChiefsfan on Aug 21, 2008 3:32 PM CDT up reply actions

I'm staying out of this one

But if you really don’t like a comment, click actions then flag. Enough flags will hide the comment.

by Chris Thorman on Aug 21, 2008 4:05 PM CDT up reply actions

Is it possible it is not a lame joke?

by Eric Allen on Aug 21, 2008 5:11 PM CDT up reply actions

awww... what a shame

please don’t taint my football talk with politics :D

It’s like the old – “We don’t swim in your toilet, so please don’t piss in our pool.”

Last I checked there are no players, past or present sporting the name Obama… and the only McCain logged 1 year as a receiver for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1946.

by Ochophosphate on Aug 21, 2008 6:23 PM CDT up reply actions

Here Here

Lets leave the politics out of the site…

by Lanier63 on Aug 21, 2008 6:39 PM CDT up reply actions

Sorry guys, will not happen again!

by Eric Allen on Aug 21, 2008 7:23 PM CDT up reply actions

I thought it was funny

Although, politically, I disagree.

But, as we all should, I digress. Besides, the Chiefs are more fun anyway.

by Joel Thorman on Aug 21, 2008 8:49 PM CDT up reply actions

What the hell?

by ilamuku on Aug 21, 2008 4:12 PM CDT reply actions

Are they practicing too hard?

I’ve always like Herm Edwards. He’s a class act and can develop good secondaries, but maybe Herm’s history with numerous injuries has to do with how hard he has his sqads practice.

by mchief on Aug 21, 2008 4:18 PM CDT reply actions

I think its punishment

for all the swearing we did last year…

by ChiefDJ on Aug 21, 2008 4:45 PM CDT reply actions

Look

We’re going to go out and play football. And if that means playing football without half of our squad, due to injury, so be it. Because we’re going to play football. And when you play football, people get hurt. So all this means is that we’re playing lots of football. And when you play lots of football, real football, sometimes football things happen that you don’t want to happen football football play. So we can either cry about it football football real football play, or we can suck it up, football, go out there, football, and play football, football, football.

YOU PLAY. TO USE. YOUR INSURANCE CARD.

by Ridiculous Matt on Aug 21, 2008 4:48 PM CDT reply actions 4 recs

Now that sounds like Mawk!

by Eric Allen on Aug 21, 2008 4:59 PM CDT up reply actions

Rec.

Brilliant!

by Direckshun on Aug 21, 2008 5:51 PM CDT up reply actions

Football highlights

Are apparently green on this site. Cool.
If you google “football for real men,” does Matt’s comment come up first?
I have no problem with topical humor, Eric, but it appears most AP readers appreciate a politics-free zone as a refuge here. Probably especially true the next few weeks. When our young Chiefs will be the surprise team of the league!!! Go Chiefs! Football, football, football!

by sunny D on Aug 22, 2008 2:10 PM CDT up reply actions