God’s calendar goes askew – former Wolfpacker lost for the year

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Evidently something has gone askew in the tracking of time here on earth. Despite the current dislocation in time and space, NC State will accept the situation as a near miss; but that doesn’t translate into good news for one of our all-time favorites – Andre Brown – as the former NC State running back and current New York Giants rookie injured his achilles tendon in practice yesterday and has been lost of the season. Link to story.

New York Giants rookie running back Andre Brown tore the Achilles’ tendon in his left leg and will be lost for the season.

The fourth-round draft pick from North Carolina State was running a pass route out of the backfield late in Friday evening’s practice at the University at Albany when the tendon ruptured as he reached for a pass from David Carr.

Brown fell to the ground immediately and grabbed his leg. As he was treated by trainers he covered his face with his jersey in obvious pain.

Shhhhh! God obviously thinks that Brown is still enrolled at NC State and meant to send this injury to the Wolfpack in response to our comments yesterday (just a few hours before Brown was injured)

It is with crossed fingers that I hold my breath and observe that it appears the Wolfpack has avoided too many unexpected losses to this point of practice.

Everyone pull out the rabbit’s foot for the next few weeks and hope that we can continue to avoid injury disaster in West Raleigh while also praying for Andre and wishing him a speedy recovery to get back on the field next year and fulfill the promise he was showing with the Giants before the injury.

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15 Responses to God’s calendar goes askew – former Wolfpacker lost for the year

  1. #44 17 24 08/15/2009 at 10:14 AM #

    Frickin David Carr…

  2. tvp1 08/15/2009 at 11:03 AM #

    God must have thought AB redshirted, making him a R-SR this year.

    Seriously, this is terrible news. Hate it for Brown.

  3. ppack3 08/15/2009 at 11:07 AM #

    Man, that was close.

    A. Brown is one of the nicest guys you’ll ever meet, and I wish him all of the best for a full recovery. But, not all is lost. Thank God he signed on the dotted line BEFORE this happened! (I’m sure the Giants aren’t feeling the same way right now, though).

  4. Afterglow 08/15/2009 at 12:09 PM #

    I guess we’ve gone air born.

    Sucks for AB. Hope a year on the sideline just gets him all the more ready for next year. Although I’m guessing that hope wasn’t the four letter word he was thinking of when it happened.

  5. WolfpackSteelersFan2 08/15/2009 at 1:57 PM #

    Hate to hear that. He just can’t seem to catch a break on the injury front. I hope he fully recovers for next year.

  6. nav 08/15/2009 at 3:41 PM #

    That really sucks about AB. I was looking forward to seeing another Wolfpacker on TV on Sundays. I really felt good that he was going to tear up the field this year and surprise a lot of people.

  7. Dogbreath 08/15/2009 at 5:30 PM #

    Its a right of passage that an NC State athlete must suffer either a season or career ending injury to one of the lower extremities at least once during their tenure, and this applies to all sports. God was relaxing, sipping a cognac, and looking back at his records earlier this week and discovered that Andre had only broken his arm while at State. Thus, he inflicted a freak Achilles tear on Brown while he was running a backfield pass pattern during pass skel drills.

    *Edit to note that, upon researching, Brown never broke his arm but did miss 4 games with a broken foot and all of spring practice the following year. Apparently, God determined that this was not enough and vetted down the most recent punishment for good measure.

  8. El Scrotcho 08/15/2009 at 7:42 PM #

    Does he have a solid contract in place that will let him work through the injury?

    Okay – I went and googled it and found the answer. Yes, 4 years, 2 mill.

    http://www.examiner.com/x-680-New-York-Giants-Examiner~y2009m7d1-Andre-Brown-officially-signs-with-New-York-Giants

  9. Wufpacker 08/15/2009 at 9:55 PM #

    Statefans said:
    “Everyone pull out the rabbit’s foot for the next few weeks and hope that we can continue to avoid injury disaster in West Raleigh…”

    Rabbits foot won’t do any good, especially now after you’ve already tempted fate. I told you that you should have been knocking on wood at the moment you typed it. Now, after the damage is already done, I’m afraid nothing will help except a full fledged exorcism. Or, perhaps a voodoo protection spell involving live sacrifice, but then you get into the hassle of having to do one for every player and that would just be too time consuming. Besides, who has that many live chickens on hand?

    Maybe we should consult “Jobu” on this one?

    Wolfpackers should all know better than to tempt fate like this. Let this be a lesson to the rest of you non-believers.

  10. Afterglow 08/16/2009 at 12:30 PM #

    There’s always Swine Flu.

  11. StateFans 08/16/2009 at 1:04 PM #

    There is no telling where this one will end.

  12. Dogbreath 08/16/2009 at 1:25 PM #

    The latest issue of The Wolfpacker has a good article on the 1979 ACC championship season.

    It tells one story about in a single play against MD, we lost five defensive starters for the season. It describes a scene of absolute carnage with bodies laying all over the field.

    I guess this shit has been going on forever.

  13. GAWolf 08/16/2009 at 3:34 PM #

    Wufpacker: Interestingly enough, I sent a text to a coach at NC State last week that basically said that IF the Russell Wilson rumor was true that I’d get the folks here at SFN to pool some cash for an exorcism. I also talked about it last night at a friend’s birthday party with Daily Update almost at the exact same time you were posting above.

    I think it’s not a bad idea. SFN fronts the money for the exorcism and makes T-Shirts that read: SFN “Supporting the Lunatic Fringe (E3’s line) and the Exorcism of the Curse of the Valvano (date)” It can have a picture of V, a chicken foot (or other voodoo-type caricature) and some statement along the lines of “We’re sorry, Coach.”

    Certainly the whole thing is a little twisted, but I pledge to participate in the matter if we have one more freakish, season-ending injury.

  14. ChiefJoJo 08/16/2009 at 10:30 PM #

    Solid contract? Not in the NFL. The only number that matters is the guaranteed money. $2M is not it.

    BTW, can you fully recover from an Achilles tear?

  15. Wufpacker 08/17/2009 at 4:10 AM #

    JoJo: Yes, the achilles tendon can heal and most folks do recover fully. The problem is that it takes so long to heal, often longer than a broken bone. Usually for a complete tear the patient undergoes surgery to reattach the torn ends back together and then wears a full cast, just as if they had broken a bone. But where a broken bone will usually heal in a few months (in an otherwise healthy adult) an achilles tendon rupture can often take up to 6 months or longer, although the patient may not be in a full cast that long. And even after that the patient should really return to full function gradually with rehab or physical therapy.

    GAWolf: I’m in. I wonder what a good exorcism goes for these days?

    Of course my post above was in jest (although Jeff really should have knocked on wood) but the funny thing is that in all other areas of my life I am not the least bit superstitious. But when it comes to sports I am almost like an OCD sufferer. It started in ’83 (although if I am being completely honest it probably started way before that, but ’83 is when it REALLY kicked in) during the run to the Nat’l Title. During each game of the ACC Tournament I ate a particular type of snack (Cheez-Its) and drank a particular type of drink (Dr. Pepper). It wasn’t anything to do with superstition, at least not yet, but someone made the joke that as long as I eat and drink the same thing we would win. Ha ha ha…we all laughed.

    Then during the infamous Pepperdine 2OT game I hadn’t been eating them. Not sure why other than the fact that it was a late game, we had already had supper and I guess I just wasn’t hungry. Well, as you know we had a heckuva game on our hands that night, and it wasn’t until near the end of regulation that someone pointed out that I wasn’t eating Cheez-Its or drinking Dr. Pepper.

    I laughed, thinking how silly it was, but within a couple minutes, during the next commercial break in fact, I made a b-line to the kitchen and grabbed both and consumed them steadily for the rest of the game despite not really wanting them or even being hungry. And, of course, after we pulled out a very close and hard fought victory, I continued the ritual for the next 5 games as well.

    Over the years I’ve had different superstitions develop. Sometimes I’ll get on a streak of sitting in the same chair, wearing the same clothes, etc., during a game. When going to games in person I often get on a streak of having to eat at the same restaurant or listen to the same music on the way to the game, or in the case of football, prepare the same food for the tailgate. I’ve even gone so far as to change clothes (usually the shirt and/or cap I’m wearing) mid-way thru a game if we are not doing well. Or, in some cases, made others who are watching with me switch back to their previous seat location if they move and we subsequently start playing worse. They (the superstitions) have changed over the years, but as much as I hate to admit it, they haven’t left.

    I’m a well educated professional whose whole belief system, with the exception of religious beliefs, is rooted in hard science. But when it comes to sports, that otherwise reasonable person loses almost all sense of reason with regard to superstitions.

    The only saving grace is that over the years I’ve seen other folks who also had the same affliction, some worse than mine. I’ve actually seen folks who perform the same hand gestures to try and hex the opponent each time they go to the line to shoot free throws, or recite the same phrase each time we would regain possession of the ball, which in basketball gets pretty annoying and monotonous.

    Its nice to know I’m not alone in this silly, but altogether necessary practice.

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