# Long drive home after sporting injury - common practice?

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [August 19, 2008, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-drive-home-after-sporting-injury-common-practice/460556 "2008-08-19T14:19:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2008, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-drive-home-after-sporting-injury-common-practice/460556/1 "2008-08-19T14:19:45Z")

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“The St Kilda forward left Perth about lunchtime yesterday for an uncomfortable 3476km road trip to Melbourne to protect his fractured cheekbone.” (from [here](http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/sport/afl/story/0,26576,24203311-19742,00.html))

Does this sort of thing happen in the US when players from the West Coast get inured in games in the East?