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Message: [QUOTE="Big Pete, post: 2736415, member: 1899"] Thank god for mouth-guards. I still remember the time the coach smacked me with his fore-arm. We were just having a muck-around game to finish a training session off. Anyways there I am carting the ball up, I get hit low in a great tackle, lurch forward and WACK. Now, I had just gotten braces about two months prior so they absolutely shreded the bottom and blood was pouring everywhere. If I didn't have a mouth-guard (a professionally fitted one, my folks took really good care of me) I reckon I would have lost a few teeth. I jokingly thought it was a passive aggressive way to fix my diet up (I truly was BIG Pete back then) but he seemed worse for wear than I was. The guilt made him feel sick to his stomach and if nothing else I just wanted to use it as an opportunity to shake it off and show how tough (stupid) I was. As they say, the thoroughbred horse will run itself into the ground, somebody has to pull the reigns. While I'm reminiscing about school footy and injuries, I remember there was this one year where it seemed like every second game I was getting cut open. Usually it wouldn't mean anything, you'd get a bandage on it and play on but the policy was that if you bled you were out. So I'd split head open through a head clash, have my nose busted with a head high, suffer a cut from a stray stud etc. It was torture, especially if it happened minutes into the match or a crucial point in the game. [/QUOTE]

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