Miami Dolphins' Caleb Sturgis Injures Himself In Playground Game

Although bunk beds allow more room for activities, not every endeavor that was awesome as a kid can guarantee the same results decades later. Take kickball, a remixed recreational sport that’s dominating the work hard/play hard landscape.

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Kickball has morphed from a playground game to a drinking game and even into a competitively intense pastime. Traveling teams, tournaments and storied leagues, and all for adults. But every rec sport comes with a waiver, a risk for a reward, and Caleb Sturgis of the Miami Dolphins may have risked too much.

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Via the Miami Herald

So how did Dolphins kicker Caleb Sturgis sustain a quadriceps injury to his non-kicking leg?

Oddly enough, during a team-organized kickball event, according to three sources.

The Dolphins decided to schedule a team-building activity following a recent practice and someone in a position of authority –– it’s unclear if it was a coach or the strength/conditioning staff — decided on a game of kickball.

But that idea turned regrettable when Sturgis sustained a strained quad to his plant leg, an injury that will sideline him for the remainder of the team’s offseason practices, which run through June 18.

Sturgis will resume activity in two to three weeks and is optimistic about being ready for training camp, barring a setback.

Unfortunately for Sturgis, the NFL is even more merciless than kickball.

H/T Washington Post

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