Injuries

This was a blog I had been looking forward to doing for KMOV. I sent out, sort of on a hunch/whim, an email to the team, asking for them to reply with their name and a list of all their injuries they had sustained while playing rugby. I was surprised with the amount of replies I got back, because I'm not sued to people responding to emails.

I was pretty shocked by the amount of severe injuries. I sort of assumed everyone would say concussions and sprains, but there were several pretty bad injuries. It was amazing, frankly.

At first, I wanted to turn it into some kind of infographic, thinking it would look good and convey all the information. But after talking to Jim, he sort of convinced me that maybe a long form narrative would be a better way to tell the story. So that is what I did. I tried to list in order of severity the injuries, giving names for people who had the bad ones. I sort of tried to make it read well with my own opinion on some things, and my thoughts and shock toward some of the injuries. I think that it gets the point across, this is an incredibly dangerous sport.

I was also fortunate in that a couple of the players reported not having any injuries. I added that into the story, and I feel like it gave it an extra dimension, which I liked. I do wich I had had more pictures, but I didn't feel comfortable reusing pics I had taken and posted already, so I went with a picture of Tim Brown getting his hand looked at at Ruggerfest. I think that that worked out alright.