Justin Herbert Has Some Chest Pain
Poor Herbie. Herbert put up one of those vintage gutsy performances last Thursday night against the Chiefs, all for naught. He took a bad hit on a legal tackle and was clearly in a lot of chest pain. On a subsequent play, he could have easily run for a first down, but instead barely huffed out a terrible throw into the dirt, visibly suffering. Then out of nowhere he launches a perfect strike deep down the field on 4th down to keep the Chargers in the game. He then threw a TD, but sadly you can give the Chargers a new coat of paint and a brand new Ferrari at QB, but you can’t make them not be the Chargers. They lost soon after, in a game they probably should have won, but Chargers’d away.
Herbert has a rib cartilage fracture. I didn’t know you could fracture cartilage. I thought cartilage was something you tore or wore down. My guess is Herbie will play but he might be somewhat more limited and is going to have to take care of himself because anything ribs related is agonizingly annoying. I bruised my ribs once on a bike crash and it literally forced me to learn how to sleep on my back, something I’d never done (I was a stomach sleeper) until that point. I had to re-learn how to sleep because any other position put pressure on it. And that was just a bruise (to my knowledge, I never got x-rayed). I wasn’t a football player dealing with hits by very large men. It took a full month before it wasn’t bothering me anymore. Then a month later I was in the backseat of a taxi when we collided with another car and I bruised my sternum and the exact opposite side of my ribs. I haven’t slept on my stomach since.
Anyway, considering how annoying I remember that being, I know Herbert is going through worse and now has to play, so he has my full sympathies. Of course, he also has access to NFL health services, but that also means he’s being treated by the doctor who stabbed Tyrod in the lung when Tyrod was having chest pain. Cool.
Please be okay, Herbie. You are too cool to die because of The Chargers being cursed.
If you are an old and don’t get the last panel, “He got that dawg in him” is currently a meme. Now that me, a 34 year old man, has made a joke about it, the meme is officially dead. Any dog in him jokes after this are officially cringe. Sorry, I don’t make the rules.
That’s a good dog.
Get better Herbie, we few, we pro…yeah, nah, we Chargers fans hope for the best.
Dr. Sutterer on YouTube put out a video explaining what went down with Herbert’s rib, interestingly enough
I didn’t know where the rib injury was going in this strip, but Alien/Got that dawg in him is the mash-up I didn’t realize I wanted.
Also Keenan Greybeard there is a painful reminder that I’m older than most guys in the NFL now, haha.
I am definitely an old. 1) I didn’t know “He got that dawg in him” was meme. 2) Since Adam Vinatieri retired, I am now older than every player in the league. 3) I remember watching Alien for the first time on HBO back in the early 80s.
Tom Brady is the only player left that’s older than me.
I have never heard of this meme until this week. Now I have had it referenced twice this week. Too much!
I don’t want to be the “Old Man Yells at Cloud” in the room, but Skip Brainless is included in the link you provided, Dave. This meme should have ended that day, but evil was allowed to endure. The “cool kids” using this meme now? They were all of them deceived.
I feel like if Herbert is allowed to play and he gets hit and that ends his season, the entire Chargers staff should be fired
Despite that I’ve always been neutral on them as a team, I can’t think of another fandom in sports that I’m more upset on behalf of than the Chargers. Having shit luck is their basic DNA, they got hoisted out of their own market over stadium greed bullshit only to be in the worst second banana situation in sports. Seriously it’s bad enough that the Rams are your landlords and have had a great run since returning to LA, but why did they go for a color scheme that literally looks like a faded version of the Rams’. Even the Jets, the other tenant team with shit luck, at least has always had colors/looks very distinct from their landlords. Not living out in LA I don’t know if it’s really true or not, but isn’t it said that the Chargers aren’t even the number 2 NFL team due to residual Raider fandom. And now they might waste Herbert.
Herbie does indeed got that dog in him. So painful to see him stuck on the Chargers.
Alien is so good. Aliens is so bad.
Boo this man, BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Out of the airlock you go.