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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Sports Argument Stadium > The Football Funhouse > NCAA Week 2 Aftermath: Bama is back, baby
 
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Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


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Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012

KICK BAMA KICK posted:

Before I forget the guy, what was the original joke of "Scott Frost Day"? Something like the governor or whoever proclaimed a day to honor him in his first season as coach and then they had an embarrassing loss on that day... or was it cancelled or something?



The opening-season game that day was cancelled due to weather, and they started the year 0-6 after that

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Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012

PostNouveau posted:

Whenever I hear about a coach using dumb symbolic object around the facilities I think of Jack Del Rio putting a stump and an axe in the locker room so his players would "keep chopping wood" and the punter almost immediately putting that axe into his own leg.

Yep https://www.espn.com/blog/jacksonville-jaguars/post/_/id/27399/jaguars-infamous-ax-didnt-keep-chopping-but-its-still-around

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The Jaguars were coming off three consecutive losing seasons, and owner Wayne Weaver had fired Tom Coughlin after the 2002 season and replaced him with Del Rio, a 12-year NFL linebacker who had been Carolina’s defensive coordinator for one season. He knew the Jaguars were in need of a bit of a rebuild and wanted to send a message of perseverance.

So he brought in the ax and an oak tree stump, put them in the middle of the locker room, and encouraged players to take a swing.

Many did.

Darius did, too. The day before Hanson’s accident, Darius took a swing -- and nearly split his own leg open.

“I have never swung an ax [until then],” Darius said. “It hit the wood and just barely missed my leg. It just barely missed me, and I was like, ‘Whoa!’

“I never touched that thing again.”

Based on what Hanson’s agent Drew Rosenhaus told ESPN that day, Hanson and the other specialists were in the locker room early, and Hanson decided to take a swing with the ax. The ax either bounced off the stump or went through a piece of it, and the blade buried itself in Hanson’s right leg.

Moments later, then-head athletic trainer Mike Ryan was interrupted in a meeting by an assistant with the news. When Ryan got to the locker room, he saw Hanson sitting on the ground in a pool of blood.

“If you feel your shin, the skin’s really tight. So when you slice it, it expands very quickly,” Ryan said. “When I looked at it, the whole front of the shin was just flayed wide open."

Said Hanson in 2004, "I'm glad that's behind me. Sure, there were times when I sat there and wondered why it happened. But I owe it to the doctors and the Jaguars for fixing me. It's behind me. It's something that happened that wasn't controllable and I'm happy it's over with now."
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