![]() ![]() ![]() As the weekend progresses, key participants wistfully muse about their marriages, their kids and what it means to be middle-aged. The Throwback Special centers on 22 men who meet annually at a hotel, form two teams and go through the motions of re-enacting the famous play. Now a professor of English at the University of Cincinnati, Bachelder made the gruesome injury the subject of his latest novel. “It was,” he adds, “an awful, awful moment in sports.” Theismann later said the sound of his leg breaking sounded like gunshots. What I remember most was how distraught Lawrence Taylor was as he frantically signaled to the sidelines to get medical help on the field. “But when ABC showed the reverse-angle replays, you could see how horrible it really was. “Initially, it didn’t seem to be too bad,” Bachelder recalls. Theismann, a 12-year NFL veteran who participated in 163 consecutive games, would never take the field again. 18, 1985, as Bachelder - who was 14 at the time - watched Washington Redskins quarterback Joe Theismann suffer a compound fracture of his right leg on a sack by New York Giants linebacker Lawrence Taylor. Parked in front of the family’s RCA console TV, he’d follow his favorite teams on the ABC telecast that had become a weekly institution with legions of fans around the world.īut excitement turned to horror on Nov. As a child growing up in Christiansburg, Virginia, Cincinnati author Chris Bachelder always made sure his homework was finished before “Monday Night Football” began. ![]()
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