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WARNING: NOT FOR THE SQUEAMISH

The following story is not for the squeamish, you have been warned.

I'm a second year college student who lives in the dorms. My floor is involved in many intramural activities ranging from flag football, to curling, to soccer. The story in question has to do with my floor's intramural soccer team (which I'm not a part of). Our floor had a match against another team recently and a horrible thing happened that game. The guy on our floor who played goalie, let's call him "John," suffered a horrendous injury brought on by a person on the opposing team. Supposedly a member on the opposing team, let's call him "Gary" had started a rivalry of sorts with John during the game. I'm not sure the specifics regarding this rivalry only that Gary was acting aggressive towards John. At some point during the game Gary ends up (somehow) kneeing John right in the crotch.

Yes, a knee right to the crotch. John got knee'd right in the crotch by a member of the opposing soccer team. I'm not sure if it was on accident (I wasn't there, this info was relayed to me by a good friend) and Gary tried taking a shot at the goal but completely messed up or if Gary had an agenda against John and went too far.

John was in extreme pain and had to be sent to the emergency room where the doctor's were forced to remove one of his testicles because it had ruptured so badly. He now only has one testicle but supposedly he was given a "45 min speech" on what his options were (he could have an implant that would make things look more normal). John's life is now permantenly changed and he's going to have to live with this for the rest of his life.

So, is the moral of the story is to wear a cup in contact sports? Can John press charges against Gary who may have done this intentionally? Thoughts?

I feel really bad for John, such a horrible horrible thing to have happen. Intramural sports should be about having fun, not be so competitive that you're out for blood. Another guy on my floor (pretty small guy, around 120 lbs at most) was playing in a flag football match and was intentionally tackled by two guys on the opposing team and he had to be sent to the emergency room because his should had been dislocated.

:(