DeMarco Murray had surgery to repair a broken bone in his hand and plans to play less than a week later. In the regular world, that is not normal. Not even close to normal. Yet in the football world, it is met with a shrug as if it is no big deal. Even Murray downplayed what he is doing. “People deal with injuries all the time, so you’ve got to be able to fight through the pain,” Murray said. Tony Romo played with two transverse process fractures in his back and has required pain-killing injections or pills to work through that and torn rib cartilage. Jason Witten played the 2012 season opener with a partially torn spleen. Dez Bryant passed on season-ending surgery for a broken finger late in 2012. Two games later, he caught nine passes for 224 yards and two touchdowns. Orlando Scandrick played with a finger so shattered that reconstructive surgery did not fix it. “It’s stuck,” Scandrick said. “It never got back. I mean it was just something [that] over time I learned how to deal with it.” Other Cowboys have played through injuries not even known or talked about. They will wait until after the season to have surgeries on shoulders or knees that are cranky but not so bad – in their minds, anyway – to knock them out of a game.
Posted on: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 20:33:24 +0000
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