[tim71]

I played a lot youth sports in my young years, but what I remember most is my older brothers luck.

We would play tackle football in our yard, maybe 5-6 players on each side. We were probably 5th-6th grade age. My brother gets tackled and literally cuts his tongue, about an inch long slice from tip going inward. Of course we kidded him for a long time saying he spoke with forked tongue. Fast forward to his freshman year at Purdue and he is playing in a flag football league at school. He and another player collide at full speed (they didn't see each other) and my brother broke his face. He broke one of his eye sockets and they had to repair the bones and insert a balloon device around that area to keep it stable so the eye socket bones would heal correctly. He was laid up at the university hospital for quite awhile. That was pretty much the end of his sports playing days except for playing golf.