Reason unknown, condition minimized
AP Reports:
SEATTLE -- Super Bowl and Pro Bowl quarterback Matt Hasselbeck reportedly was using crutches on his way into an airline promotional event at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on Thursday.
The Seattle Seahawks quarterback said the injury was a minor, bruised foot tendon, according to Don Wilson, a Port of Seattle employee assigned to the event.
Hasselbeck was inside an airport terminal helping promote AirTran Airways' first day of summer, daily nonstop service between Atlanta and Seattle.
Wilson said Hasselbeck arrived in the airport's Concourse A using crutches. He said curious fans asked the star quarterback what had happened, and Hasselbeck said he had a bruised tendon in his foot and he was only using the crutches to keep the foot from swelling.
"He only used them to go long distances," Wilson said. "I'm sure he must have needed them, but he wasn't limping."
A spokesman for AirTran Airways, Matt Alverson, left a promotional advisory phone message with The Associated Press before the event. In it, Alverson said Hasselbeck would be present, and added that the quarterback would be appearing on crutches.
Alverson said Thursday evening that he saw Hasselbeck only during the event itself and did not see him using the crutches. Wilson said an airport employee held the crutches off to the side during the event.
A Seahawks official said Thursday the team had no knowledge of Hasselbeck being injured recently. He said the quarterback is not currently on any in-house injury lists that are updated each week during the offseason.
A representative for David Dunn, Hasselbeck's agent, said Dunn was not available to comment on Thursday. Hasselbeck could not be reached for comment.
Hasselbeck participated in each practice of a mandatory, three-day minicamp May 5-7, and then all of a voluntary, four-day passing camp that ended May 11. He, league MVP Shaun Alexander and other veterans did not participate fully, as the Seahawks focused on developing younger players during the camps.
Hasselbeck then hosted a high school football camp at Qwest Field that began on May 20. He was not using crutches then.
The Seahawks' next minicamp begins June 5. Training camp starts during the last week of July.
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So what? As a typical beergutted American male I often find myself in need of a little assistance while walking long distances, say, from the bed to the computer, from the computer to the bathroom--(forgot the kleenex)--back to the computer, back to the bathroom--(forgot the Jergens)--etc. Using crutches is just one of the great ways I've found to rest the ol' gams during these periods of extreme physical exertion; other methods I use include: installing a moving sidewalk between the fridge and the couch, Sawz-alling my front steps at a 45-degree angle so gravity can help me descend them (along with the escalator for those punishing 3-foot vertical ascents,) and rigging up a complicated system of counterweights, pullies, and .080 gauge cabling, so that hefting a Natty Light to my lips requires no more effort on my part than does brushing a shed Lophotrichous flagellum off the arm of my couch.
ReplyDeleteThat being said, I for one am glad Hasselbeck's taking my lead and conserving every possible Joule of energy for the upcoming championship season. I only wish every Seahawk possessed Matt's wholehearted dedication to the team.
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I know someone who says they saw Jake Delhomme eating at a local resturant that I know for a fact serves imported shrimp. IMPORTED SHRIMP! WFT kind of American eats imported shrimp? Particularly one who is a role model to the children. THE CHILDREN! Not to mention he comes from hurricane ravaged New Orleans. NEW ORLEANS! (or possibly HURRICANE RAVAGED!, not sure where the outrage should be located...) What do you think one of New Orleans exports is? SHRIMP! And of course beads, looting, alchohol abuse, GGW, racism, and local government and police corruption, but SHRIMP! too.
ReplyDeleteI'm calling the AP.
This post is not sponsored by AirTran Airways, we be lovin' us some flying, and it be showing like a motherf***er.
Also, this post also may not be viewable by Firefox users, and Firefox is a virus and you neo-web-hippies should just assimilate. Trust Paul Allen... you've learned to trust him with your team, trust him and his bretheren with your web experience.
This portion of this post is not sponsored by Microsoft or Vulcan Inc, however, if I could get on the payroll that would be sweet ass sweet, Mr. Allen. Can I get game tickets? Use the plane? How bout Octopuss?
Wow.
ReplyDeleteIf yer askin' me, no, but I was up late last night and I may have had 6 or 20 beers too many. Can't believe I'm at work now, after 3pm EST on Memorial Friday. I work for a communist bastid!
ReplyDeleteI'm not at work, however, I am now currently, and will be for the duration of the holiday weekend, thru monday, in a drunken stupor. Why, you ask, am I in a drunken stuper-stupor (or however the **** you spell it) anyway? Because Its the american way. the only thing that is missing is a Hawks game for me to humiliate myself whilst yelling at the T.V. Some beautiful babe's and some steak on the Barbi. Not that I would ever digest shrimp in a drunken state. (have you ever seen shrimp after your stomach refused to digest it and returned it to where it came from?) No, its just not american I tell you. A blood rare, still moo'in, steak hot off the grill, or Barbi if she's cute enough, is the only way to have a meal in a drunken state. Now, should Y-all want to join me, bring lotsa brewski's, babes fer yesef's (I may want sloppy seconds however) and of course, tapes of the Hawks superbowl contending season.
ReplyDeleteRemember the days when the quarterback of the Seattle Seahawks could pass through SeaTac in a full body cast, and nobody outside of the security screeners would ever take notice?
ReplyDeleteI guess we can stop worrying about playing in "South Alaska" anymore. Our boys are finally year-round newsworthy!!!
I need a Mountain Dew.
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