'Hefty Lefty' Jared Lorenzen suffers broken ankle
Feb. 9, 2014
Jared Lorenzen is checked out by a trainer after leaving Sunday's game with an ankle injury. (Frank Victore/ USA TODAY Sports
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Laken Litman, USA TODAY Sports
HIGHLAND HEIGHTS, Ky. — Internet sensation Jared Lorenzen might be finished playing football for awhile.
Lorenzen, the former NFL quarterback who now plays for the Northern Kentucky River Monsters of the Continental Indoor Football League, sustained a serious right ankle injury during play Sunday.
With 11:23 to play in the second quarter, a defender dove at Lorenzen's ankles. The 6-4, 320-pound left-hander was helped off the field by several team trainers and was taken to a nearby hospital.
Lorenzen, who won a Super Bowl ring as Eli Manning's backup quarterback in 2007, went viral last week when video showed the "Hefty Lefty" in action during the River Monsters' season opener.
He didn't make it through his next game because he was tackled low, fell hard on the concrete-like turf and had to be taken to the hospital early in the second quarter.
Team owner Jill Chitwood said she heard players on the opposing team, the Erie Explosion, cheer when Lorenzen went down.
Trainers helped him off the field and onto a training table on the sideline. After they wrapped his ankle, he laid down and put a towel over his red face. His father, Joe, rushed to his side and whispered in his ear. Within 10 minutes, paramedics helped him onto a stretcher and took him to a local hospital.
As he was wheeled out of the Bank of Kentucky Center, teammates yelled, "We're praying for you, boy."
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