Tony Gonzalez Breaks his Pinkie

[Taco John]

Chiefs | Gonzalez Pinky is Broken
Tue, 16 Aug 2005 20:12:51 -0700

Elizabeth Merrill, of the Kansas City Star, reports Kansas City Chiefs TE Tony Gonzalez (finger, foot) actually has a broken pinky. "Now he's got the broken finger with a splint on it. But we mainly (want) to keep pressure off that foot. He still gets a good physical workout without taking the physical pounding driving off and blocking. He's very tough. He has no limitations," said head coach Dick Vermeil. Despite the injury, Gonzalez caught two touchdown passes late in practice Tuesday, Aug. 16.

[Taco John]

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/12404682.htm

Aching to play


Gonzalez shrugs off latest injury, a broken finger

By ELIZABETH MERRILL

The Kansas City Star


RIVER FALLS, Wis. — The conversation today, just before the cafeteria Swiss steak and steamed rice, is about quantum physics. Tony Gonzalez is reading another book and getting deep. He’s thumbing through The Master Key System by Charles F. Haanel. This guy Haanel, supposedly, inspired Bill Gates to leave Harvard and start Microsoft.

Surely he can help Gonzalez channel the pain that shoots through his right hand and left foot.

“I’m interested in what makes people tick,” Gonzalez said, “and what makes myself tick.”

Nobody can really figure out Tony G. He’s a reality TV star who doesn’t have a television in his dorm room. He’s a training-room junkie who’s stretching for a catch in the end zone.

Just when it looked as if Gonzalez was ready for a healthier 2005, Chiefs coach Dick Vermeil broke the latest injury news early Tuesday: Gonzalez has a broken pinky finger. With two fingers taped together and a bandage that resembled an oven mitt, he practiced again Tuesday afternoon, referring to a chapter in another book he’s reading in his 11-by-13 dorm room.

It’s How to Be Like Mike, a biography on Michael Jordan.

“This is the NFL,” Gonzalez said. “If you can’t play with pain, then this isn’t the game for you.”

Without a high tolerance for pain, it’s doubtful that Gonzalez would be a six-time Pro Bowl tight end. Or catching two touchdown passes as he did in Tuesday’s late practice. Gonzalez made history last year when he became the first NFL tight end to catch 102 passes in a season. Nobody knew how much he was hurting — that he did it with a loose fragment in his foot that was caused by a stress fracture.

Offseason surgery was supposed to rid him of the pain, but Gonzalez still feels it when he practices during training camp. In some ways, maybe it’s good that he’s only working out once a day. Gonzalez never believed a team needed five hours of two-a-days during camp to develop chemistry.

Especially the Chiefs. The offense has been together for four years now, roughly 100 days in River Falls, so it’s not as if Gonzalez has to worry that Trent Green isn’t going to find him on a deep route or that Willie Roaf is going to forget how to block.

And when Gonzalez is taking a practice off, he’s not exactly loafing.

“Tony Gonzalez is always working out even if there’s a period where he’s not working with the team,” Vermeil said. “I’d rather have him with the team, but I know what we have to do to prevent a prolonged problem with the foot.

“Now he’s got the broken finger with a splint on it. But we mainly (want) to keep pressure off that foot. He still gets a good physical workout without taking the physical pounding driving off and blocking. He’s very tough. He has no limitations.”

Vermeil might have winced Tuesday afternoon if he saw his team superstar on the stairs outside the cafeteria, horsing around with his buddy Jason Dunn. Inside the lunchroom and the tight-end meetings, they talk about the meaning of life and the political musings of James Carville. Outside they joke about one owing the other money and chase each other like schoolboys.

Dunn is out because of back spasms, and their time on the sidelines is kind of like group therapy. Gonzalez had a what-next feeling when he grabbed his finger in pain during the first half of Friday night’s preseason game at Minnesota; Dunn had a whatever moment when he was injured from a teammate pulling on his jersey during practice.

“Tony wants to get better, and he’ll push that,” Dunn said. “That’s just like me. But we also understand that you need rest to get your body straight. You don’t want to be behind the eight-ball early. It’s not fair to the team to go out there hurt and not be your best.”

Dunn, at least, brought a TV to River Falls and has caught Gonzalez’s reality show called “Super Agent.” He ribs his buddy about how his voice sounds different on TV. A couple of assistants walked by Gonzalez earlier this week and wanted to know how the series ends.

Gonzalez smiled and kept walking. They’d have to keep watching.

“He doesn’t fit the stereotypical athlete,” Dunn said. “I know Tony, and when he’s at home, he’s at a Borders or sitting at the library. We talk about a lot of things, life in general. Our ultimate goal is to be the best man possible, and that’s on and off the field.”

For now, for once, Gonzalez would settle for being a healthy man.

[bendog]

“He doesn’t fit the stereotypical athlete,” Dunn said. “I know Tony, and when he’s at home, he’s at a Borders or sitting at the library. We talk about a lot of things, life in general. Our ultimate goal is to be the best man possible, and that’s on and off the field.”
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how gay, not that there's anything wrong with that.

[fontaine]

We'll see how effective he is with a broken finger the first time he has to rumble with a LB off the line of scrimmage in run blocking or get past him across the middle.

[TheDave]

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how gay, not that there's anything wrong with that.

Makes me think i'm back on that damn island... Still got issues with OD for that! :crazy:

[Bronco_Beerslug]

Doubt this will slow TG down very much.

[bloodsunday]

a broken pinkie is someting to be dealt with for a TE. It doesn't sound like he will miss any time, but it's still something to content with. If catches a ball akwardly, that could be the end of his season.

[Bob's your Information Minister]

Pretty sure this will heal before the regular season starts...

Anyway, I'm not concerned. Gonzalez caught 102 balls with a stress fracture in his foot last year.

[Hotrod]

Pretty sure this will heal before the regular season starts...

Anyway, I'm not concerned. Gonzalez caught 102 balls with a stress fracture in his foot last year.

Way to find the silver lining Boob. Hey got any good spin for the felons on your team. "It'll just pull the team together" "They are tuff guys what can I say" "Look out we got goonther now" ???

[Bob's your Information Minister]

Way to find the silver lining Boob. Hey got any good spin for the felons on your team. "It'll just pull the team together" "They are tuff guys what can I say" "Look out we got goonther now" ???

No. There's no excuse for that crap.

[Hotrod]

No. There's no excuse for that crap.

Wow Im gonna have to pos rep you....someone stop me quick ;)

[Hotrod]

LOL one pos rep and he goes from 5 black dots to 5 orange dots.

[TheDave]

Wow Im gonna have to pos rep you....someone stop me quick ;)


Do it and I'm neg repping your ass on principal!

[bendog]

can't they just cut the pinkie off?

[Hotrod]

Do it and I'm neg repping your ass on principal!

He'll post something silly within 15 minutes and be back in the black. ;D

[Spider]

Hilarious! . I have to spread some rep around ........

[Hotrod]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Bob's your Information Minister
I see the trolls are out.

LOL my favorite all time bob post

[Popps]

"“He doesn’t fit the stereotypical athlete,” Dunn said. “I know Tony, and when he’s at home, he’s at a Borders or sitting at the library. "

Doesn't that kid know he's supposed to be out keeping it real? (Slapping his bitch around, drug running, etc.)

[FADERPROOF]

Tony G better not miss any time for this, I was a damn WR and played with a broken finger before, then again I wasn't making millons of dollars which gave me the right to be a primadonna and sit out games for it.

[bendog]

Tony G better not miss any time for this, I was a damn WR and played with a broken finger before, then again I wasn't making millons of dollars which gave me the right to be a primadonna and sit out games for it.
Come on, he's gay. He reads books at Borders. Not that there's anythign wrong with that.

[Broncoman13]

Say what you'd like about Gonzo...he's a gamer and one of the few Chefs I'd take on our squad anytime!

[ZachKC]

Tony G better not miss any time for this, I was a damn WR and played with a broken finger before, then again I wasn't making millons of dollars which gave me the right to be a primadonna and sit out games for it.
Because Tony G. has no history of playing injured. :kiddingme

[Jetmeck]

Pretty sure this will heal before the regular season starts...

Anyway, I'm not concerned. Gonzalez caught 102 balls with a stress fracture in his foot last year.

Best hope so, BOB. Considering he is your best threat in the passing game, really because QUitterson has a decent catch every couple of games and then disappears, you best hope the ONLY consistent guy you have in the passing game is in there.

[watermock]

LOL one pos rep and he goes from 5 black dots to 5 orange dots. He's been a real rep yoyo.

Musing over quantum physics and James Carville the Clinton apologist. Strange indeed.

[Sodak]

Originally Posted by Hotrod
Wow Im gonna have to pos rep you....someone stop me quick

Do it and I'm neg repping your ass on principal!


Dave, I'm gonna pos rep you if you neg rep him for pos repping Boob...

No offense Hotrod, you need to resist...

[Bob's your Information Minister]

Best hope so, BOB. Considering he is your best threat in the passing game, really because QUitterson has a decent catch every couple of games and then disappears, you best hope the ONLY consistent guy you have in the passing game is in there.

Kennison had 1,000 yards and 8 TDs. Shut up.

Really, WTF? The Chiefs have killed everyone in the passing game 3 years running now.

[Rock Chalk]

Good for Gonzo.

Hope he cant ever catch another pass and I hope Dick Vermeil is crying about it.

And I hope Bob, crazyhorse, Zach, Saul, and ROY all have that sinking feeling in their heart knowing that without Gonzo, teams dont have anyone but Priest to worry about.

Whats that sound?

Oh, the door slamming on the Chiefs chances at a superbowl for another 40 years.

[Bob's your Information Minister]

Hope he cant ever catch another pass and I hope Dick Vermeil is crying about it.

You truly are an asshole.

And I hope Bob, crazyhorse, Zach, Saul, and ROY all have that sinking feeling in their heart knowing that without Gonzo, teams dont have anyone but Priest to worry about.


Without Gonzalez? Who said he's not going to play this year.

[kchiefs30]

Good for Gonzo.

Hope he cant ever catch another pass and I hope Dick Vermeil is crying about it.

And I hope Bob, crazyhorse, Zach, Saul, and ROY all have that sinking feeling in their heart knowing that without Gonzo, teams dont have anyone but Priest to worry about.

Whats that sound?

Oh, the door slamming on the Chiefs chances at a superbowl for another 40 years.What a dick. Go **** you mother...

[watermock]

No comment. Alec is so over the top it's funny. I honestly don't know what his agenda is, and don't want to find out.

[ZachKC]

Good for Gonzo.

Hope he cant ever catch another pass and I hope Dick Vermeil is crying about it.

And I hope Bob, crazyhorse, Zach, Saul, and ROY all have that sinking feeling in their heart knowing that without Gonzo, teams dont have anyone but Priest to worry about.

Whats that sound?

Oh, the door slamming on the Chiefs chances at a superbowl for another 40 years.
Without Gonzalez? Wah?

[Rock Chalk]

What a dick. Go **** you mother...
You must have mistaken me for an inbred Chef fan.

I dont give a **** about your team, your players or whatever.

Am I dick? Yes I am. And guess what, I dont give a ****.

[Popps]

Chefs fans are sensitive.

[Rohirrim]

No comment. Alec is so over the top it's funny. I honestly don't know what his agenda is, and don't want to find out.

Nah. He's just overheated his corn mash again. ;D

[Rock Chalk]

What is corn mash?

[FADERPROOF]

Because Tony G. has no history of playing injured. :kiddingme

I never said anything about Tony G. and his injury history, I merely said that he does have tghe luxury of siting out if he wants to whereas I really didnt have a choice.

[listopencil]

C'mon dammit, somebody tell me what the hell corn mash is. Ah **** it. I'm heading to google.

[listopencil]

Ok, I guess I found it:

Noun 1. corn liquor - whiskey illegally distilled from a corn mash
bootleg, moonshine
corn whiskey, corn whisky, corn - whiskey distilled from a mash of not less than 80 percent corn



Apparently the mash is what you get the squeezin's from to make shine.

[TheReverend]

Despite the injury, Gonzalez caught two touchdown passes late in practice Tuesday, Aug. 16.

To all who were worried about the Chief's defensive "upgrades"... please read above.

[orangeatheist]

can't they just cut the pinkie off?


heh heh...when I first "sped" read that line I thought you'd said, "Can't they just cut the penis off?"

Hilarious!

[Bob's your Information Minister]

To all who were worried about the Chief's defensive "upgrades"... please read above.

My god, you mean the offense scored in a practice? I mean that NEVER happens in Denver, right? Plummer hasn't thrown a SINGLE touchdown pass this august in camp? :pfbbt: