Yesterday I noted a report from Adam Schefter of NFL Network that said Denver Broncos wide receiver Brandon Marshall had suffered an arm injury after he slipped on a McDonald's wrapper and put his hand through a TV screen. And I expressed skepticism about that report, because it just sounded too weird, and because athletes don't have a great track record for truthfulness about off-field injuries.Well, today, Schefter is reporting that Marshall has admitted that the injury was not, in fact, caused by a slip on a McDonald's wrapper. What Marshall actually says is that although the part about putting his arm through the TV is true, he actually did it in an accident while wrestling with family members.
It's not clear why Marshall would lie about it, but it is clear that this is a serious injury: Schefter reports that Marshall severed an artery and a vein, damaged a nerve in his right forearm and cut tendons to five muscles. He needed surgery to have his tendons and artery sutured back together and it will be three months before he has recovered.
The injury isn't likely to jeopardize Marshall's season: He should be completely healed by the start of training camp in July. But it's going to be a long, painful recovery. I'm guessing that was the last wrestling match of Marshall's life.
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Reader Comments ( Page 1 of 2)
1. sounds like another lie to cover the first lie.
Posted at 9:29PM on Mar 24th 2008 by jim
2. where did he get inspiration for the mcdonalds wrapper tho? lol
Posted at 11:19PM on Mar 24th 2008 by rawfannation229
3. the truth will set you free or in this case make you look like the jack ass you are. next it will come out that he put his hand through a TV, but he wasnt wrestling he was at the strip club and was trying to punch a stripper, missed and hit the TV instead. I swear these guys sit around and think up the craziest stuff to jeapodize their million dollar contracts, read a damn book and stay out of trouble
Posted at 11:32PM on Mar 24th 2008 by mike
4. OK, now it's just getting stupid. Our family doesn't get down on the floor and all start wrestling. Notice it said members, as in more than one? How stupid do they think we are? Oh well, just another cover up.
Posted at 12:59AM on Mar 25th 2008 by lucky
5. Does Brandon Marshall plan to get into politics after his football career is over?
Posted at 1:37AM on Mar 25th 2008 by George B Vieto
6. To lucky, I have to agree with you. I did laugh hard when I read your post. My family and I do not wrestle on the ground and punch holes through walls and TV's, come on!!! Unless you and your family are WWF wrestlers or such! LOL
Yes, what a cover up. Maybe he was angry at someone and punched the TV??? Hum, just maybe.....
Posted at 2:59AM on Mar 25th 2008 by benhammonkeys
7. lol... your family has never wrestled around with younger members of the family? seriously, apparently my family and the marshall family are unique in this way... all i know is this is not another cover up, because things like this do happen... shame on all of you for thinking that just because this man makes millions of dollars on his football career means that he shouldnt be allowed to have some fun with his family in his own house, y'all are pathetic.
Posted at 3:44AM on Mar 25th 2008 by Austin
8. wtf were they wrestling in a restraunt for in the first place??? Obviously his parents didn't teach him how to behave in public.This kind of screwing around tends to reflect badly on all youth.Someone should be teaching the whole family some manners!!
Posted at 4:50AM on Mar 25th 2008 by larry
9. sounds to me like lawyers got involved and decided wrestling was better excuse than McDonalds wrapper
Posted at 10:51AM on Mar 25th 2008 by kmafva
10. Should've went with put fist through screen out of frustration when his tournament brackets blew up.
Posted at 10:58AM on Mar 25th 2008 by Grer The Sarcastic Bastard
11. ...sounds like the in-laws were puttin' a hurt on him...
Posted at 11:13AM on Mar 25th 2008 by lytch2
12. STILL A B.S. STORY....I WAS GONNA LET HIM HAVE HIS 1ST LIE,HE CAN HAVE THIS LIE TOO......AFTER ALL,ITS HIS LIE....let him keep it
Posted at 11:16AM on Mar 25th 2008 by zzzzzzzzzz
13. When an adult lies about one thing you can never really have any confidence in anything else they say from that point forward. The lying is WAY more troubling to me than the real reason for how the injury might have happened, no matter how stupid, weird, or kinky that reason is.
Posted at 12:04PM on Mar 25th 2008 by jimmy
14. Okay now...the old tv sets have really hard glass and very hard to break...LCD tv is made of plastic...but not very wide..maybe 1/2 hand deep...and lightweight so the tv would move away instead of letting someone's arm go through it which it wouldn't be deep enough anyway....so what's the next excuse by him and lawyers for doing something really wrong....like maybe breaking into his gf's house by breaking the glass window with his arm?
Posted at 12:07PM on Mar 25th 2008 by Cliff
15. lie #2. maybe tommorow he'll tell the truth.
Posted at 12:17PM on Mar 25th 2008 by williamtarheels
16. #8 obviously didnt read the article, just read something about a mcdonalds wrapper, a tv, and wrestling... btw, you guys are stupid, shit like this happens all the time
Posted at 12:32PM on Mar 25th 2008 by Austin
17. wouldn't a banana peel been more likely?? works in the cartoons..
Posted at 1:54PM on Mar 25th 2008 by Dave
18. Oh, and 1 more thing.. Wouldn't it be something for MacDonald's to turn around and sue the wealthy football player for blaming them? He'd hafta go get a cup of hot coffee from 'em and dump it in his lap, and then they'd break even
Posted at 1:58PM on Mar 25th 2008 by Dave
19. No need to judge him by the content of his character.. he is related to the thug mayor of Detroit.
Posted at 2:13PM on Mar 25th 2008 by trujag
20. I like the mickey d's story..lord knows there is enuff grease on that rapper for it happen!
Posted at 3:17PM on Mar 25th 2008 by mike