When it comes to McDonald’s, Broncos receiver Brandon Marshall is a guy who currently isn’t “lovin’ it.”
Adam Schefter of NFL Network reports that Marshall’s bizarre (and, in our view, implausible) arm injury occurred when he slipped on a McDonald’s bag, stuck out his hand to brace his fall, and busted it through a television entertainment center.
Marshall’s arm will be in a cast for two weeks, and he doesn’t know how many stitches are under it.
“I want to thank everybody for their concerns and let everyone know that I’m okay,” Marshall told Schefter via a Sunday-morning text message. “Its funny because I pride myself on yac [yards after catch] and being one of the toughest players to take down once I have the ball in my hands.
“So for the next couple of days I’m going to take the time to build my confidence back up after allowing that mcdonalds bag to take me down and send me through the entertainment center.”
We don’t buy it. Not for a nanosecond. Marshall is a pro athlete. He’s got good reflexes. But we’re to assume he’s sufficiently klutzy to slip and fall on a paper bag, and sufficiently stoopid to try to brace his fall by thrust his arm toward a television entertainment center?
Besides, we still can’t figure out the logistics of the incident. Where in the hell was he walking when he slipped? On the mantle?
We’re not going to guess at what really was happening, or what he beverage might have washed down those burgers with. But we think there’s more to the story here, and the truth might or might not come out in the future.
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March 23rd, 2008 at 12:20 pm
It sounds bizarre, but it happens. A soccer player in England tripped a few years ago and fell through a glass table requiring 82 stitches. I’m sure kevlar has the polygraph fired up anyways…
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March 23rd, 2008 at 12:22 pm
my question is, what the hell is the greasy Mcdonlds bag doing on the floor?! What is he, living in his dorm room? If the truth comes out it will be way better than than kicker on the jags going lumberjack on his own leg.
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March 23rd, 2008 at 12:31 pm
Would this pass Shanny’s polygraph…I think not.
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March 23rd, 2008 at 12:43 pm
Brandon, is that the best you can do? Griese had a lame story when he tore himself up. Do all Bronc’s think they can bullshit the world?
His excuse was bad, but what was the real story?
He was so wasted, he punched out the tube?
Guess it’s better than domestic violence.
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March 23rd, 2008 at 12:49 pm
Good stuff Florio. Marshall is trying hard but it is good to see that people here see right through it.
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March 23rd, 2008 at 1:06 pm
A lot of stupid sh_t happens in Denver,seems like athletes are always falling down stairs,driveways,tripping over dogs and getting hurt answering the phone.Must be the thin air.Then again,maybe it could just be the booze……
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March 23rd, 2008 at 1:11 pm
Never being one to question, but he is from pittsburg this didn’t happen around the time pitt lost to Mich St in the college basketball tornament, did it?
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March 23rd, 2008 at 1:14 pm
Ya’ll are always skeptical - I suppose there is merit to the skepticism in most cases, but sometimes truth is stranger than fiction… and very agile athletes can be clumsy at times too.
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March 23rd, 2008 at 1:23 pm
surely if he was going to make up a story, it would be better than this
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March 23rd, 2008 at 1:24 pm
The Broncos could always give him a lie detector test.
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March 23rd, 2008 at 1:32 pm
I don’t think you’ll ever find out what actually happened, but Marshall’s story is bizarre. You’d think a banana peel would have been a more credible agent of accidental destruction than a McDonald’s bag. Then again, the old banana-peel excuse is hackneyed and obvious. But a McDonald’s bag? It’s not even slippery.
Can we get somebody to experiment with the Marshall scenario in front of an entertainment center?
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March 23rd, 2008 at 2:31 pm
Did somebody say ‘Drunken Rage’?
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March 23rd, 2008 at 3:17 pm
There has to be a woman involved somehow. A hot chick distracted him. Didn’t see the bag, down he goes. Something like that.
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March 23rd, 2008 at 4:17 pm
Remember, then Bronco, Brian Griese tripping over his dog and missing time? What is next Shannahan tripping over his rat tail?
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March 23rd, 2008 at 5:27 pm
I once saw Trent Dilfer, also a pro athlete, trip over a curb.
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March 23rd, 2008 at 6:51 pm
Will he be able to sue McDonald’s because there bags (obviously now coated in wax) are too slippery?
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March 23rd, 2008 at 9:38 pm
Maybe he was trying to get the Raiders to sign him! They have been shelling out a lot of coin for injured players lately.
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March 23rd, 2008 at 10:06 pm
In the winter of ‘02, I was staying with my Aunt in NJ. My girlfriend at the time and I were packing to go back home to move to NYC. Through no fault of anyone, including my own, while packing I lost my balance and to catch myself reached back to the wall.
However, there was no wall.
Instead, I put my hand through the double paned window. I was neither under chemical or emotional influence. I was simply a clutz.
I think that it costs nothing to assume the same until proven otherwise by Mr. Marshall or his circumstances.
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March 24th, 2008 at 12:31 am
This story is truly unbelievable. There is no way he slipped and put his hand through an entertainment center. Abolsutely no way. Plus, the guy already had the rep for a bad temper. I’m glad he made that story up because it’s hilarious. The rat definitely needs to use to that lie detector test.
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March 24th, 2008 at 8:12 am
Okay… so we all figure Marshall got mad and punched his TV or something like that.
So what?
Who hasn’t gotten mad and punched something before?
I don’t understand why there is a story here. Of course Marshall is putting forth a story. And yes it is a pathetic attempt at trying to save face. The appropriate thing to do here is to allow him to save face.
If he punched a person, or someone else’s TV that would be different. But what interest do any of us have in whether or not some guy punched his own TV? Maybe it happened the way he says it did. Maybe it didn’t. Writing multiple articles about it certainly feels an awful lot like the kid at school tattling on the other kid for lying about what his Dad does for a living.
It makes the tattler look worse than the liar.
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March 24th, 2008 at 11:40 am
Good to see he’s trying to stay fit during the off-season by eating McDonalds, and then being too lazy to get up and throw the bag in the garbage.
Also, I think Mythbusters just got a new idea for their next show.
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March 24th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
You should call him Brandon McMarshall now.
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