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Thomas’ helmet jarred Frey’s left hand, sending a shock of pain through his fingers. Diagnosis: a spiral fracture in his second metacarpal. Doctor’s verdict: Frey was cleared to play—with a protective cast the size of a watermelon...
...played shoulder to shoulder with uncoordinated rookies who made catching a slant look like rocket science. I took the field with middle-aged men who had children and regular jobs, a crazy eighteen-year-old linebacker who’d already suffered six concussions (apparently he once broke his helmet, got knocked out, was carted off the field in a stretcher, and then ran back on the field, strapped on his badly broken helmet, and kept playing, again suffering another concussion and losing the ability to walk for six months) and a 5’8”, 320-pound...
...near-full-grown bull before being tossed off and landing on his head. He hands me his equipment and insists to his hovering cloud of pre-pubescent admirers that he is fine, but I catch him rubbing his head for several minutes afterward. The helmet I wear is his, and it’s a bit tight...
...lasts an amazing 5 seconds, and, at Kimbo’s instruction, does a little dance for the crowd in the center of the arena. I zip up a thin black vest, don the helmet and a worn looking gardener’s glove, and breathe, breathe...
...found in Sudan. The Nubian settlement of Kerma was home to the earliest major urban centers in sub-Saharan Africa and produced, says curator Derek A. Welsby, "superb pottery, among the best ever made." Beakers dating from around 1750 B.C. have a distinctly contemporary look. A 19th century helmet represents the Otto- man era in Sudan's long Islamic history. The exhibition ends with a reminder that more of Sudan's rich heritage will soon be lost. A dam to be built near the fourth cataract of the Nile will inundate a 170-km strip of land on either side...