Napolean McCallum injury

Napolean McCallum was a running back for the Los Angeles Raiders in 1986 and 1990-1994. On September 5, 1994, during a Monday Night Football contest and the Raiders' opening game of the season at the San Francisco 49ers, McCallum's career ended prematurely when 49ers linebacker Ken Norton Jr. twisted him to the ground. McCallum's cleat stuck in the ground, forcing his knee into a horrible dislocation. Norton lay pinned underneath a motionless McCallum for a couple of minutes while trainers attended to McCallum.

McCallum suffered a complete hyperextension of his left knee, almost to a right angle. He suffered a ruptured artery in his left knee, and tore three ligaments, tore the calf and hamstring from the bone, and suffered nerve damage in the knee. McCallum was told that if the surgery did not go as planned, there was a chance his left leg would have been amputated.

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[MrRaidener]

Worst injury I've ever seen and still is

[bertmustin]

You know it's bad when trainers for both teams are on the field.

[crazymonkey7733]

@BoBoDibba Only hurts for a few seconds, then they inject some kind of medicine to make it go away.

[BoBoDibba]

OMG!!!!... Did it hurt?

[Tikitxiki2]

@quarf53206 but don't you think nortons trainers came out because Norton wasnt moving? of course he was told not to move, but did the trainers know?

[quarf53206]

@Tikitxiki2 I think Ken Norton wasnt moving because he was told not to because they didnt want to make that injury any worse then it was

[qazwsxedc123211]

goodd dammmmm

[Tikitxiki2]

@bertmustin both trainers were on the field because ken norton was underneath mccallum and wasn't moving

[quazzie11]

@multihappydayz Oh, was it Bryant Young? I thought it was Dana Stubblefield.

[quazzie11]

Saw this live. Still wince when I see it!

Norton Jr also broke the hell out of Dana Stubblefield's shin (his own teammate, by the way) by diving over the pile and hitting DS's shin square with his helmet.

[DrPaulScott]

I'm sure he is OK because it never seemed like football was his life & he is a United States Naval Academy graduate. Classy dude.

[DrPaulScott]

Napoleon McCallum was a classic Al Davis draft pick. The only reason he was a fourth round pick was because he had to do five years in the Navy. He was amazing in collage AMAZING!! But nobody is going to wait 5 years for a running back to grow sea legs. Well Al Davis wasn't a nobody, Davis was hoping for a David Robinson/Bo Jackson draft. Too bad about the knee, though they never played him enough to shine.