When rookie sensation Reuben "Froster" Foster went down with a high ankle injury in his debut game, San Francisco 49ers GM picked up the phone to his head scout and asked if there was anyone in free agency who might be worth a look.
High Ankle injuries are notoriously difficult to gauge just how bad they are, and John Lynch felt it better to air on the side of caution with his prized bullock rather than be in a position where the 9ers need to rush him back and risk further complications.
Pickings are slim on the waiver wire however, but some intrepid fans on twitter had some more off the wall suggestions - why not look outside of the NFL.
The NFSL is still regarded as a new league, looked down by many NFL fans as a freakshow where team management, owners and players move around the league more often than the most transient of NFL kickers. But among the sideshow freaks that inhabit the league, at least one linebacker has shon through and made a name for himself as a tackling machine.
Wraiths middle Linebacker, Luke "Lieutenant Smash" Tiernan has amassed a league leading 27 tackles in his first two regular season games, and as an Irishman, surely a move for this guy, even if a short term move, would do wonders for jersey sales in the EU - and so Lynch invited the boyhood 49ers fan out to Santa Clara for a trial.
With the blessing of Wraites management, Tiernan flew out but all did not go well. To start with he missed his flight - who would have thought that snow could delay flights in Yellowknife?!?
And then once he landed the airline had mislaid his luggage, Tiernan put a call in to the 9ers, but they struggled to get cleats in his size (or more likely the backroom staff didn't like the idea of this outsider trying out.)
Tiernan ended up doing his trial in jogging shoes, slipping and sliding as he went through the drills.
Any semblance of power that he could generate in a hit was gone as his foot slid on the regularly watered down turf.
As soon as he made his way back to Yellowknife, he knew that he wasn't going to get a call asking him to sign up. He was just pissed off about how much of a mess the whole thing was, from the airline, right through to the 9ers backroom staff.
Is it any wonder the franchise is so awful at the moment!
High Ankle injuries are notoriously difficult to gauge just how bad they are, and John Lynch felt it better to air on the side of caution with his prized bullock rather than be in a position where the 9ers need to rush him back and risk further complications.
Pickings are slim on the waiver wire however, but some intrepid fans on twitter had some more off the wall suggestions - why not look outside of the NFL.
The NFSL is still regarded as a new league, looked down by many NFL fans as a freakshow where team management, owners and players move around the league more often than the most transient of NFL kickers. But among the sideshow freaks that inhabit the league, at least one linebacker has shon through and made a name for himself as a tackling machine.
Wraiths middle Linebacker, Luke "Lieutenant Smash" Tiernan has amassed a league leading 27 tackles in his first two regular season games, and as an Irishman, surely a move for this guy, even if a short term move, would do wonders for jersey sales in the EU - and so Lynch invited the boyhood 49ers fan out to Santa Clara for a trial.
With the blessing of Wraites management, Tiernan flew out but all did not go well. To start with he missed his flight - who would have thought that snow could delay flights in Yellowknife?!?
And then once he landed the airline had mislaid his luggage, Tiernan put a call in to the 9ers, but they struggled to get cleats in his size (or more likely the backroom staff didn't like the idea of this outsider trying out.)
Tiernan ended up doing his trial in jogging shoes, slipping and sliding as he went through the drills.
Any semblance of power that he could generate in a hit was gone as his foot slid on the regularly watered down turf.
As soon as he made his way back to Yellowknife, he knew that he wasn't going to get a call asking him to sign up. He was just pissed off about how much of a mess the whole thing was, from the airline, right through to the 9ers backroom staff.
Is it any wonder the franchise is so awful at the moment!
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