That’s what makes his latest comeback both so special and so ordinary, now that it looks certain that the 32-year-old Carolina Panthers linebacker will play in Super Bowl 50 on Sunday. He played this game with at least a dozen staples in his arm, sewing up the surgery to fix his broken arm suffered two weeks prior. Late Sunday night after the Panthers 24-10 loss to the Denver Broncos, Thomas posted a graphic photo of that arm on Instagram for the world to see, thanking fans for their support and commenting on the doctors and trainers that helped him prepare for the game despite his injuries. “There’s not a better feeling than being here right now and being able to play in this game”.
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After enduring years of injuries, Davis received the 2014 Walter Payton Award last year. I think our trainers did an fantastic job of making sure that I was ready to go and that I didn’t have any issues throughout the game’.
He made it clear in the post, “This is not about me, or how tough I am”.
“I made it early”, coach Ron Rivera said of his decision to make Allen inactive for the game, “because I felt the guys that were going to get the opportunity to play needed to know that they were going to play and they needed to focus… It’s not to shine any light on me or my injuries”, he wrote. Just knowing where all I’ve come from.
‘We definitely had a successful season, but you know we let so many people down.
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But it’s no more fantastic than what he did three years ago, when he became the first National Football League player ever to return from three torn ACLs (former Giants cornerback Terrell Thomas became the second a year after that). Man, I ain’t missing the Super Bowl.
