TENNESSEE HATE WEEK: MEET LAWRENCE WRIGHT.

by Orson on Sep 12, 2007 2:27 PM EDT

We've never seen someone killed all the way. Killed halfway? Yes, in the form of a guy we saw hit by a scooter on a Taiwanese street so hard his shoes flew off in both directions. Killed around the 75% mark? Yup, in the sight of a guy in Thailand who fell off of a moving motorcycle and smacked his unhelmeted skull on the pavement and lay motionless for a full twenty minutes before ultimately walking away from the crash.

Killed about 95% of the way? Oh, yes, yes. There was something about it that troubled us. What was that, says General Allenby? Answer: we liked it.

For an instant, no one knew whether to cheer or call a mortician; it remains the second worst hit we've ever seen, and the worst we've ever seen in person due to the sickening noise of impact, audible from our seats at field level in the North Endzone. Afterwards, Kent's whole face swelled up as if he'd been stung by a hog-sized bumblebee, and he reportedly had difficulty breathing. Video almost doesn't do it justice...almost. (HT: Thomas.)

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So that’s where Orson is. The youtubes.

We have names for people like you. And we don’t always use American Idols’ names in a good context either, sir.

Heh.

by Kenny on Sep 12, 2007 2:30 PM EDT reply actions

Ladies and Gentlemen…

That’s how you lead without the helmet and still fuck a guy up. I honestly think it takes Mr. Wright a second to comprehend the collision.

Day-um.

by Whitey on Sep 12, 2007 2:40 PM EDT reply actions

Mommy….

by Brewster Crew on Sep 12, 2007 2:40 PM EDT reply actions

No way a catch and fumble…

by Tidefan23 on Sep 12, 2007 2:42 PM EDT reply actions

lawrence wright is hung like reggie fucking nelson.

by gerry dorsey on Sep 12, 2007 2:44 PM EDT reply actions

I hope the fucking mutt felt it too.

by Bully Van De Graaff on Sep 12, 2007 2:53 PM EDT reply actions

Kent had a little less tongue after that one as well. Bit part of it off.

by Spanky on Sep 12, 2007 2:55 PM EDT reply actions

Urban Meyer thinks that punishment was harsh.

Wait. No he doesn’t.
…

Kent could have avoided the collision, but he was distracted by the image of Fulmer birthing a donut that was zipped into his head from somewhere/sometime in the future.

I’ve learned to believe that Gator fans can do anything these days.

by Rival on Sep 12, 2007 2:56 PM EDT reply actions

That’s some hatred right there.

by Out of Conference on Sep 12, 2007 2:57 PM EDT reply actions

I bet Manning whined like a little bitch that Kent coughed it up, too.

by Out of Conference on Sep 12, 2007 2:59 PM EDT reply actions

By the way, does Pat Summit in the labor room count as today’s Mustache?

by Out of Conference on Sep 12, 2007 3:01 PM EDT reply actions

That’s nice, but it doesn’t even come close to Andre Krimm’s block against the Colts where he knocked off that guy’s entire facemask.

by Oops Pow Surprise on Sep 12, 2007 3:03 PM EDT reply actions

gawd I love SEC FOOTBAW!

by Jmuthaf'nT on Sep 12, 2007 3:05 PM EDT reply actions

#12-

Best hit by a vegetarian that I’ve ever seen.

by Brewster Crew on Sep 12, 2007 3:07 PM EDT reply actions

does anyone remember the draft tape a few years ago on the lineman that shows him bearing down full speed on a qb, but the qb sees him outta the corner of his eye and crumples up and falls right when he’s supposed to get hit, simultaneously, the lineman sees this, and goes from full speed to dead stop and watches the qb fall over and just stands over him laughing? That was a lot

by Jmuthaf'nT on Sep 12, 2007 3:07 PM EDT reply actions

The indignity of it is Wright knocked Kent out of the game in Knoxville the year before on a similar hit, but not a pivitol game changing one like seen here.
And to the Tenn lurkers, yes, Kelvin Kight got F’d up in ‘01, but it wasn’t quite like this.

by Ltrain on Sep 12, 2007 3:28 PM EDT reply actions

Wrong call. Not a fumble.

One of the greatest hits I have ever seen.

by LSUJoshua on Sep 12, 2007 3:28 PM EDT reply actions

it’s up to me, as usual – cleaner than nelson’s hit (the player was at least involved in the play, unlike reggie ‘cheapshotting’ nelson’s), but let’s not act like he had his head up.

it’s exactly how the buffalo dude broke his neck.

by matty blue on Sep 12, 2007 3:32 PM EDT reply actions

What’s the worst hit you’ve ever seen? Quentin Coryatt? Broken jaw = ow.

by Gator03 on Sep 12, 2007 3:33 PM EDT reply actions

Hey young man. You got knocked the fuck out!!!!!!

by The Last Dragon on Sep 12, 2007 3:40 PM EDT reply actions

He caught the ball and turned to run upfield. That’s a catch. The fact that he instead met a freight train head-on does not change that fact. If Keith and Bob acknowledge possession in slow motion, he did indeed have possession. Good Day, Sir!

by Native on Sep 12, 2007 3:42 PM EDT reply actions

I have to say that this — http://youtube.com/watch?v=rdzS9ZfejSg — is the worst hit I’ve ever seen. Neither guy ever played football again.

by ChicaGoBlue on Sep 12, 2007 3:45 PM EDT reply actions

I’ll have to see the vid outside of work. I cherish the memory of the hit on Tee Martin (among many) that put him into the cameraman and gashed (below?) his mouth. Stitches, muthafucka! That may have been Alex Brown night at the Swamp, if my poor memory serves me correctly.

by Allahver Fist on Sep 12, 2007 3:47 PM EDT reply actions

#18. Give me a break. When you are moving as fast as that SOB was and using your body as a missle, that’s as much as head up is going to happen.

by The Last Dragon on Sep 12, 2007 3:49 PM EDT reply actions

The lesson here? Keep you head on a swivel when you’re in the Swamp. Or Asia.

by Flop on Sep 12, 2007 3:53 PM EDT reply actions

You know it’s a good hit when the head stays stationary, and the momentum of the body keeps moving.
Good stuff right there.

by Scalz1 on Sep 12, 2007 3:58 PM EDT reply actions

I gurantee Kent called his mama after that shot. BTW I was there too Orson, damn I miss Peyton at UT.

by Stockman on Sep 12, 2007 4:04 PM EDT reply actions

umm, i really can spell, guarantee…honest.

by Stockman on Sep 12, 2007 4:05 PM EDT reply actions

Lordy mama, you can still feel that one. Ouch.

by Signal to Noise on Sep 12, 2007 4:10 PM EDT reply actions

ChicaGoBlue, that’s what happens when you go helmet to helmet.

I’m partial to the hit below:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=_Quh63kQBUk

Who say’s you need special rules to protect the QB?

by RowdyRoddyPiper on Sep 12, 2007 5:17 PM EDT reply actions

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by crimson daddy on Sep 12, 2007 5:23 PM EDT reply actions

I am Ryan Karl a Tennessee linebacker. I introduced myself to Andre Caldwell’s femur in 2005. Can Andre come out to play Saturday?

by Ryan Karl's Helmet on Sep 12, 2007 5:39 PM EDT reply actions

I’m not sure if this was the hardest hit I’ve seen but it was one of the only times I’ve ever watched a football game and wondered if he would ever get up.

Reggie Brown, Ansel “Junior” Rosegreen, Ansel, Reggie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0Y9wt3XkHo

by El Guapo on Sep 12, 2007 5:57 PM EDT reply actions

ChicaGoBlue, I knew what video that was before I clicked it. And you’re right.

by Jeremy on Sep 12, 2007 6:00 PM EDT reply actions

Hard to believe all those big teneleven guys get hurt hitting when they are moving so slow. Like watching Rosie and Rosanne bumping each other going for the last chicken wing

by Willet on Sep 12, 2007 6:04 PM EDT reply actions

There was a hit, delivered by Luis Oliver in the mid-late 80’s, that was the loudest thing I have ever heard. We have season tix on the 42, near the ‘ole governers box, before they enclosed it, like the pussies they are. Oliver hit a cat so hard, it took off his helmet, and rendered the whole crowd (75,000.00+) completely quiet. It was so clear on row 75, it was like a bell ringing.
I will never forget the great mid 80’s Gators. Never forget the KFC in Lake City, where I pounded 10 years worth of chicken livers and gizzards, and I will never forget that hit.

GO GATORS

by cowen on Sep 12, 2007 6:09 PM EDT reply actions

#33

That is a classic, cheap, dangerous, helmet to helmet shot. boooo

by Damon on Sep 12, 2007 7:27 PM EDT reply actions

This is why a lot of Vanderbilt gentlemen do not , or will not play pro football.
To quote:

“They do not have enough money for me to get hit by these crazy negro’s on a daily basis for 80 plays.”

by Mr Pelican Pants on Sep 12, 2007 7:50 PM EDT reply actions

Is it wrong to say that gave me an erection?

by cowboycane on Sep 12, 2007 8:28 PM EDT reply actions

http://www.gatorzone.com/story.php?id=12584&html=football/news/20070912110600.html&sport=footb

by Verdigo on Sep 12, 2007 9:15 PM EDT reply actions

I love how the announcers don’t pay any attention to the guy writhing in pain — just the ball.

by Boomer on Sep 13, 2007 3:48 AM EDT reply actions

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uBxX4UI0y4

by the bachelor on Sep 13, 2007 10:06 AM EDT reply actions

Man does anybody have video of 1992 Sugar Bowl
UF vs. WVA.
Gators Monty Grow lights up Darren Studstill, after the hit the QB lines up under guard with his helmet half turned backwards!!! Prob up there with Kent vs Wright

Go Gators.!!!

“Rocky Top ya’ll ways be 2nd in the SEC!!!!…. F U Rocky Top!! Whoooooooo”… g’luck this weekend you will need it.

And to Ryan Carl bro..you may have taken Andre’s femur out…but we still kick that as** regularly..enjoy the beat down this Sat. 10-4 past 14 yrs!! Starting to be like UGA!!

by Gator Pride Inside on Sep 13, 2007 2:27 PM EDT reply actions

HARDEST. HIT. EVAHHHHHH

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-186801825688903855&q=cornelius+bennett&total=8&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=1

I don’t know if anyone remembers this, but a year or two ago Steve Beuerlein was on ESPN doing a Alabama game, and they showed that clip during a break in play. Beuerlein couldn’t even comment or watch it because it was so painful for him.

In second place……(not really but it’s Bama-Ark weekend so its fitting)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-896343044446228756&q=andre+smith&total=192&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0

by Dave on Sep 13, 2007 3:15 PM EDT reply actions