The San Diego Union Tribune reports today that “LaDainian Tomlinson had an additional MRI on his left knee Tuesday that revealed his playing even just four snaps in the AFC Championship Game further damaged it.”
Surgery is still not required, but the knee will take longer to heal. To no one’s surprise, Tomlinson will not play in the Pro Bowl.
But the injury hasn’t stopped Tomlinson from traveling to Phoenix this week “as part of an endorsement deal.“
Help us with that. His knee was further damaged in the Pats game, he can’t play in the Pro Bowl, yet he can get on a plane to Phoenix and walk around for a week promoting some product he’s endorsing?
It’s a shame LT, who was walking around Phoenix with a “slight limp,” doesn’t have the same commitment to his team as he does his sponsors.
Tomlinson also responded to the U-T on the criticism he received about not playing with the injury from Jim Brown and Deion Sanders.
2:54 pm on January 31st, 2008
Let’s rehash…
The chance of LT needing to cut, explode, accelerate, avoid tacklers and take hits in Phoenix is remote at best. So why is this SBB a$$wipe taking another shot at a fine ambassador of the NFL? I have no clue. I guess it’s the thing to do these days in the print media. Though I would hesitate to call SBB print media. That would imply that there are reporters with (at least) high school degrees investigating issues and writing clear, factual articles that show no trace of vindictiveness. Need I say more?
9:03 pm on January 31st, 2008
I don’t know who this character is writing this crap, but he sure is a moron. And I’ll bet anything he hasn’t played a snap of football in his life. Running, cutting, exploding, accelerating, and avoiding tacklers (just as the previous poster mentioned) are a hell of a lot different than walking, so how you can compare playing in a football game on an injury that is supposed to take 6 weeks to heal, to walking around to do whatever it is he’s doing is absolutely ludicrous. I tore my ACL and partially tore my MCL and managed to walk around with a barely noticeable limp until I had surgery…but the thought of doing anything remotely athletic never crossed my mind because I’m not a moron. You on the other hand are suggesting that because the man can walk with a slight limp he’s fully capable of playing a football game??! That is probably the dumbest thing I’ve heard in my life!