NFL Injury Terminology

So you know what the hell the talking heads are talking about...

• sports hernia - a weakening of the abdominal muscles that results in your nuts really hurting.
• stinger/burner - a nerve injury caused by a direct blow to the top of the should that drives it down and causes the neck to bend in the opposite direction, resulting in tingling moving down to the fingertips. This typically only occurs in the situation described above, so when a commentator describes any hard hit to any part of the body that results in the player being shaken up as a "stinger" you know he's a moron.
  
• high ankle sprain - broken leg
• shaken up - concussion
  
• a [INSERT BODY PART HERE] - e.g. a hamstring, short-hand for an injured hamstring. Commentators are too lazy to use adjectives. So don't be confused and think someone cannot perform because of the presence of a vital body part.
• took a tough hit - hit in the balls
• turf toe - jammed toe
• hip pointer - a bruised hip
• landed awkardly - tore every ligament in his knee