Chad Pennington Tears ACL Playing Basketball

This has to be an April Fools' joke, right?

It's an odd-numbered year so a Pennington injury was guaranteed to happen eventually.

Next year I expect to see a post where Chad Pennington rips his ACL while reaching for his dropped keys.

This must be a joke. Is this an actual thing that is real? Is Rosenthal vacationing in Canberra?

Obviously he was just looking for a way for him to jump-start his inevitable QB coach career

"Chad, hi, this is Fred Taylor. Do you need a hug?"

I would seriously urge this guy to take up a different hobby, something less physically exerting like whittling or flower arranging. Maybe poetry, has anybody ever injured themselves doing poetry?

Pennington once described himself as "injury-plagued, not injury-prone". I can't comment on the science behind this, but I wonder if some people are just more susceptible to injuries of various kinds (and not due to being out-of-shape). Aside from his multiple shoulder injuries, he's had a broken wrist and now the knee injury. From what I know, he did not have a history of injury before the broken wrist he suffered in 2003, three years into his NFL career.

The goggles - they do nothing!!!

Kinda makes me think his body is just telling him (very loudly) that it's time to retire.

Of course, I thought the same thing about Kurt Warner in 2006, so what the hell do I know?

That's funny...I didn't know that there was an ACL in the shoulder...

This thread is full of win.

Miami just lost their best quarterback since Dan Marino.

"Hi, I'm Troy McLure. You may remember me from such roles as Chad Pennington in 'The Lepper Quarterback'".

I feel bad for the guy...how many injuries can a qb suffer? He and bob sanders must have a voodoo doll haunting them.

I'm counting on reading this article in a few years with all the references to "Chad Pennington" replaced with "Matthew Stafford"

i wonder whether avoiding injury is really the uncommon thing while suffering serious injuries is to be expected. even peyton manning and tom brady have each had knee issues, multiple knee issues for manning, plus brady's infamous shoulder issues. and they're famous iron-men.

philip rivers tore his acl a few years ago.
donovan mcnabb is perpetually injured.
matt schaub is always an injury waiting to happen.
michael vick has suffered several major injuries
the list goes on

brett favre is famous for his streak, but that's because he just kept playing in spite of broken bones and soft tissue injuries that didn't entirely stop his right arm from going forward.

I have to say, I've played a little tackle football (with and without pads) and tons of pick-up basketball. I think my injury rate in pick-up basketball in terms of stuff that makes me miss playing time was way higher.

Basketball is just a sport that pounds your body way more than you realize. Plus all the jumping and banging into people results in a lot of random injuries.