Matt McChesney sat in a Colorado Buffaloes football team meeting room in the fall of 2002 as a junior defensive lineman when the sky started falling. Literally.
“A GA (graduate assistant) walked in and dropped off a bunch of paperwork,” McChesney said. “When the door slammed behind him, the air conditioning vent and everything inside of it fell out of the ceiling on my right shoulder and separated my AC-joint.”
A coach’s worst nightmare. It’s bad enough when a football player is seriously injured through practice or competition, but maladies are magnified when inflicted outside the confines of football.