Pain and Suffering

Pain and Suffering Yelling and screaming of the ecstatic crowd is all that could be heard. They couldn't even tell what was going on down on the field; everyone was silent. At age twenty seven and only five years into his career the second best rusher in the National Football league had been injured. It was on a Christmas eve, a game where Adrian Peterson’s great year would come to an alarming end. It was on a regular routine run play up the middle where he obtained the complete ACL and partial MCL tear, only after being so close to the previous rushing record held by Eric Dickerson since 1984(Wikipedia contributors). All of the hard work he had put in had turned into nothing but pain and suffering from one critical leg injury.
The ACL, or medically known as the anterior cruciate ligament, is a ligament in the knee that connects the femur to the shin bone which is made up of a strong band of tissue. The ACL is one of the four ligaments in the knee that includes the PCL, MCL and, LCL; this ligament is more common to be torn because it is the weakest of them all. The ACL ligament can be torn and also can be hyperextend. In most cases since football is an impact sport, most of the time it’s a helmet to the knee or a hard cut that causes the tear. ACL tears are a common injury in football resulting in a season ending fate. Players come to practice everyday to prepare for their games and get into the physical shape they need to be in, but the tearing of the ACL is throwing all their hard work for one season down the drain(MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia.).
Why is the ACL such a commonly torn ligament you might ask? The anterior cruciate ligament is most commonly torn because humans are not necessarily made for cutting and twisting. In the NFL a torn ACL is a very big injury and can end an athlete's season in one play. The NFL has started to become aware of the situation when it was brought up to them, that in half of the 2013 season the ACL tear numbers were almost