# Quickest carrer ending injury in pro sports **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 9, 2005, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quickest-carrer-ending-injury-in-pro-sports/334966 "2005-12-09T23:20:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![middleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@middleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/middleman)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2005, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quickest-carrer-ending-injury-in-pro-sports/334966/21 "2005-12-10T13:52:33Z")
> [@Snooooopy](#): > > He rushed for one TD and caught a pass for another. Unfortunately, he would not score again for the rest of the year. It was still a nice moment! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2005, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quickest-carrer-ending-injury-in-pro-sports/334966/22 "2005-12-10T15:36:10Z")
> [@Laughing Lagomorph](#): > > Wow, Boston teams have had a lot of bad luck in this regard, huh? Continuing in that vein, Travis Roy, a highly-regarded freshman hockey player for Boston University, was slammed into the boards 11 seconds into the first game of the 1995 season, broke his neck, and has been a quadriplegic since. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2005, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quickest-carrer-ending-injury-in-pro-sports/334966/23 "2005-12-10T15:43:29Z")
Thanks **Elvis** , that’s who I was thinking of. Doesn’t really fit, as it wasn’t at the professional level, but still pretty tragic. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quickest-carrer-ending-injury-in-pro-sports/334966.md?page=1)