Kicker Tynes suing Tampa Bay over career-ending MRSA

[Marshall 98]

Rooting for him to win it - can't imagine a crappier way to have your career ended:

 

...The lawsuit claims the Bucs failed to disclose and actively concealed ongoing incidents of the infection among other individuals who used and visited the team's facilities. It also is alleged that the Bucs failed to employ necessary sterile techniques and routinely left therapy devices, equipment and surfaces unclean...

 

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/12632029/lawrence-tynes-sues-tampa-bay-buccaneers-claiming-mrsa-infection-ended-career

 

As nearly as I can recall, the lawsuit seems to be a fairly accurate assessment of the situation at that time. Didn't several other players and personnel fall prey to that pernicious infection as well?

[ralphster 274]

Rooting for him to win it - can't imagine a crappier way to have your career ended:

 

 

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/12632029/lawrence-tynes-sues-tampa-bay-buccaneers-claiming-mrsa-infection-ended-career

 

As nearly as I can recall, the lawsuit seems to be a fairly accurate assessment of the situation at that time. Didn't several other players and personnel fall prey to that pernicious infection as well?

 

BUC OG Carl Nicks also contracts MRSA at the same time as Tynes while on the TB roster. IIRC Cleveland had it a while back, but TB basically lost two good players to it.

 

All because they couldn't bother to pay a crew to clean up the locker and weight rooms?

[Djgb13 2,338]

That's part of the Teams responsibility is to provide a safe work environment for the players. Having a bacteria like MRSA in their locker rooms because the team facilities failed to sterilize the place is entirely their fault. This case seems pretty cut and dry. The only question is how much will he get

[Marshall 98]

That's part of the Teams responsibility is to provide a safe work environment for the players. Having a bacteria like MRSA in their locker rooms because the team facilities failed to sterilize the place is entirely their fault. This case seems pretty cut and dry. The only question is how much will he get

 

Hopefully, what he's asking for. I'd guess that he quite possibly would've earned that much, had he been able to pursue his craft in a healthy environment. Kickers can have fairly lengthy careers. (See: SeaBass and Vinateri)

 

...he is asking for $20 million in expected future earnings, according to a news release issued by Tynes' attorneys. Tynes was signed by the Bucs in 2013 but never kicked for the team, as he was diagnosed with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus at the start of training camp.

 

(Of course, he would probably end up with only half of that, tops, after attorney's cut, taxes, etc)

[sirensong 111]

i used to think MRSA was no big deal--just a skin infection like cellulitus. then i got it.

 

day 1: ingrown hair on my knee.

 

day 3: can't walk--go to hospital.

 

day 4: multiple IVs of super-antibiotics.

 

day 5: doc says "looks like it's getting into the joint. we'll know by tomorrow whether or not we need to amputate."

 

 

 

fortunately, i still have both legs. but sheesh...

[Marshall 98]

i used to think MRSA was no big deal--just a skin infection like cellulitus. then i got it.

 

day 1: ingrown hair on my knee.

 

day 3: can't walk--go to hospital.

 

day 4: multiple IVs of super-antibiotics.

 

day 5: doc says "looks like it's getting into the joint. we'll know by tomorrow whether or not we need to amputate."

 

 

 

fortunately, i still have both legs. but sheesh...

 

Oh man - that sounds like it totally sucked. Are you okay now, I hope?

[Djgb13 2,338]

i used to think MRSA was no big deal--just a skin infection like cellulitus. then i got it.

 

day 1: ingrown hair on my knee.

 

day 3: can't walk--go to hospital.

 

day 4: multiple IVs of super-antibiotics.

 

day 5: doc says "looks like it's getting into the joint. we'll know by tomorrow whether or not we need to amputate."

 

 

 

fortunately, i still have both legs. but sheesh...

No MRSA is a very big deal. It's something you definitely don't want to get infected with. Working on a ward I've dealt with patients who have it. You have to take contact precautions with mask, gloves, gown to keep from coming in contact with anything that the patient touches because it can spread that easily.

[sirensong 111]

 

Oh man - that sounds like it totally sucked. Are you okay now, I hope?

 

yeah--swelling started going down the next day, and i got to keep my knee.

 

can still feel the rough part where it started attacking the femur, though.

[sirensong 111]

No MRSA is a very big deal. It's something you definitely don't want to get infected with. Working on a ward I've dealt with patients who have it. You have to take contact precautions with mask, gloves, gown to keep from coming in contact with anything that the patient touches because it can spread that easily.

 

yeah--first question from the doc was "have you spent any time in a medical facility recently, or around someone who has?"

 

me: "uhhh...my GF is a nurse".

 

doc: "clindamycin it is."

[ralphster 274]

 

yeah--first question from the doc was "have you spent any time in a medical facility recently, or around someone who has?"

 

me: "uhhh...my GF is a nurse".

 

doc: "clindamycin it is."

 

This is literally no focking joke. The meek shall inherit the earth? Nah, try some nurse and doctors families, they're the ones with the antibodies to everything...

[Djgb13 2,338]

 

This is literally no focking joke. The meek shall inherit the earth? Nah, try some nurse and doctors families, they're the ones with the antibodies to everything...

Lol especially with all the antivaxxers out there. Anyone with a bit of biological studies will understand the benefits of being vaccinated and understands how our antibodies work

[TimmySmith 2,782]

Read up on Brandon Noble. MRSA ended a pretty solid career. The details are horrifying.

[Marshall 98]

Read up on Brandon Noble. MRSA ended a pretty solid career. The details are horrifying.

 

Aye, good call.

 

While checking it out, I was surprised and impressed by Snyder's response to the situation (considering his apparent lack of regard for player safety vis-a-vis the 'Skins' player-eating field):

...At the first sign a potentially deadly strain of staph infection was coursing through the Washington Redskins’ locker room, owner Daniel Snyder told his trainer to spare no expense.

 

So, Bubba Tyer embarked on a renovation that ran nearly $80,000.

 

“A major, major project,'” Tyer said, referring to the 2006 remodeling of the team’s headquarters. “But it was something that had to be done. “‘

 

...Snyder wanted a more high-tech approach.

 

Benches in the locker room were ripped out, replaced by stools in front of each player’s locker, so no infection could spread across the surfaces where the players sat. A new ventilation system was installed to dry the sweat-drenched pads. Ultraviolet lights were put in to kill infection. The hot tub was torn out and replaced, and the entire building — meeting rooms, weight rooms, locker room — was sprayed to eradicate any lingering infection on surfaces.

 

“And education was a key factor,” Tyer said. “It’s important that guys look for it and are very aware of it.”

http://washington.cbslocal.com/2013/10/18/mrsa-a-silent-danger-lurking-in-nfl-locker-rooms/