Joe Theismann’s Career-Altering Injury: A Medical BreakdownOn November 18, 1985, during a Monday Night Football game between Washington and the New York Giants, quarterback Joe Theismann suffered one of the most infamous injuries in sports history—a compound fracture of the tibia and fibula in his right leg. The injury occurred during a sack by Giants linebacker Lawrence Taylor, who immediately signaled for medical attention upon seeing the severity of Theismann’s leg break.Anatomical Damage • T

#OnThisDay ... in 1985, Washington Redskins QB Joe Theismann suffered probably the most infamous televised injury in NFL history, as the full weight of New York Giants linebacker Lawrence Taylor caused a comminuted compound fracture of his right leg, snapping both tibia and fibula and leaving the lower part of the leg at a 45-degree angle to the rest. The injury, unsurprisingly, forced Theismann to retire from football at the age of 36, but he has never blamed Taylor, insisting that the future H

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