I think Ben and Romo are tough but they've missed a lot. I see both sides of the argument.
Eli has played through a few injuries. We don't know them all and I've seen him get his *** beat on the field and not even look at a ref. Guy is a soldier.
Not as much as I thought, seems like he's missed more. I think Ben and Romo are tough. Played through some serious injuries but Romo's body is giving up on him now. He's done.
In sports durability is an innate ability to avoid injuries. Whether its IQ, the structure of your body, or good fortune. Especially one like football where the blueprint of the game is to run into eachother has hard as you can. You have to be a tough SOB just to be in the league. Toughness is style of play, levels of not giving a damn attitude, and tolerance to pain which can be assumed by playing with said injury.
You could be the toughest dude in the world and it doesnt matter if you break your back like Romo or tear an ACL like Brady. You wont be on the field.
I cant count how many times i've rolled my ankle playing basketball and for some reason i never got injured. I always boasted about having rubber bands for ankles aka durability. Except for this one and only time where I rolled it so bad I physically couldn't play. There was just nothing I could do about it. Even after I felt 100% i could still feel a slight knot inside the top of my foot over half a year later. **** happens.
Speaking of basketball, if durability goes hand in hand with toughness i'd love to take this discussion over to the NBA thread and pronounce LeBron as the toughest player of all time and see what the result of that is
I take your big Ben and raise you Chris simms
Life-threatening Injury Edit
Simms suffered a season-ending injury in Game 3 of the 2006 schedule. On Sunday, September 24, he was taken off the field after taking hard hits from the Carolina Panthers defense. Simms returned to the game and even led a successful scoring drive, but remained in physical distress and was taken to a nearby hospital after the game. Tests revealed a ruptured spleen, and Simms immediately underwent emergency surgery. In the aftermath, Simms said he lost five pints of blood before the operation and conceded that another 45 minutes without treatment could have been fatal.
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