Which Is Physically Tougher, Football or Fishing?
Football without a doubt. If that question ever made its way to Vegas than I don’t think fishing would have received any bets. Regardless, fishing can foster its fair share of injuries that can not only have an affect on your fishing, but your daily routines as well.
Veteran fishing pro Denny Brauer has recently undergone a full right knee replacement. The injury was a result from an old high school football injury. At 58, the pain had finally gotten to the point that it needed to be fixed in order to continue fishing professionally. This is not the first time Brauer has undergone surgery to correct ailments. Less that 10 years ago, he underwent 4 separate surgeries to fix a back problem that had been affecting him for sometime. Currently Brauer is going through rehab and plans on being ready by March for the start of the 2008 season.
Clausen is another example of sport fishing related injuries. Earlier in the year, he had to skip out on the last few FLW events to rehabilitate an elbow injury.
The most commonly affected injury areas from fishing are usually joint areas. While you may not have a 270 lb linebacker cross the offensive line and dive into the back of your knee, you most certainly can hyper-extend elbows and shoulders because of rigorous amounts of casting or tear cartilage in your wrist from flipping 1 1/2 oz. weights in the mats for weeks on end. Add all of this to some of the back injuries gotten from bone jarring poundings taken in the seat of your boat while trying to handle some of the waves mother nature can toss around on big waters, and you can end up in the rehab center right along side football and hockey players.
Get well soon Denny and good luck in 2008!
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1 opinion for Which Is Physically Tougher, Football or Fishing?
ITrush
Dec 28, 2007 at 12:13 pm
Mine is football too! but I love fishing.
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