Video - Arena Football Elton Patterson Gets Hurt Before A Game

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Arena Football Player Pulls a Gramatica and Gets Injured During Pre-Game Warmups
Published 4/7/2008 at FanIQ Blog
Orlando Predators defensive lineman Elton Patterson just wanted to get the crowd to be louder before his team's Arena Football League matchup against the Chicago Rush. He got them to be louder for sure - but presumably he didn't want that noise to be laughter directed at him for managing to tear his quadriceps while jumping up and down during pregame warmups. Somewhere, Bill Gramatica is nodding his head in approval.

Arena Football's Elton Patterson Jumps Up and Down, Gets a Bill Gramatica-Style Injury
Published 4/7/2008 by Michael David Smith at FanHouse
Filed under: AZ Cardinals, Arena FootballFan IQ provides this video of Orlando Predators defensive lineman Elton Patterson, and it's a video that will bring back bad memories for Arizona Cardinals fans: Patterson suffered a torn quadriceps jumping up and down before the game started, apparently thinking said jumping would get the fans pumped up for the game. Instead, the start of the game was delayed while medical personnel attended to Patterson, who was carted off the field with a season-ending torn quadriceps. The injury was reminiscent of the torn ACL suffered by ...