Calvillo left in the first half of the Als-Riders game with a concussion after being knocked unconscious by defensive end Ricky Foley.
Last week Calvillo discussed how he was feeling as he waited to see how he progressed: "I was feeling great pretty much all week,'' he said. "Every day it got better. And, two days ago, it just hit me and I felt like crap. Today I felt good so I went to see if I could push myself, but I don't feel right at all. It's not a headache. It's just pressure in my head. It throbs and then goes away, and then five minutes later it's the same thing."
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AC's career is likely over, and if he's lucky, won't end up a vegetable or worse.
I think & feel that it's safe to say, on behalf of ALL CFL fans, no matter where our particular team loyalties lie, we send Anthony our best wishes for a full recovery & no long term effects! He has enriched the game we all love & call our own & I for one hope to see him back in a full capacity. This is not how I'd want to see the HOF'er leave the game!
This is sad news for A.C,the Al's and the entire CFL as a whole.Isn't it ironic though that one of the Biggest "DICKHEADS" in the league will go down in history as the guy who ended A.C.'s career.As Conky would say...."Way to go Ricky"!!!!!
Thanks for all the great memories A.C. brings a tear to my eye everytime that I think that you were once a Cat,and what might have been if we would have had more patience and time way back when and appreciated what we had. :cowboy: A.C. is without a doubt one of the GREATEST this league has ever produced!!!!!! :thup: :thup: :thup: :thup:
Yep, blame Rick Foley for the hit plus the name calling BS is sick…ect :thdn: I don’t think this was the worst hit that AC has taken IMO. Calvillo has gave me many excitement memories in the game of football and wish him well in recovery.
In all honesty AC's game has been going down hill over the last few seasons. I'm afraid father time is catching up to him and Foley's hit I would hardly call vicious. Actually looked pretty mild.
Agreed, as far as hits go he’s taken far worse shots. The hit to the chest that gave him a bruised sternum/ribs a couple years ago vs the bombers was a much more ferocious hit. But with concussions its not always about how severe a hit is as how the structures in the head react to the hit. Putting him on the 9 game is a smart move, it takes away the questions on if/when he’ll be back and there’s no pressure on him to get back sooner. If he gets better ahead of schedule they can always activate him early if they wanted to. Good luck to him and hope he manages to recover without long term repercussions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zw2XEay-468 This Hit ????
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErWTBb5-vik Calvillo as a Cat,96,looks like a little kid in this clip :rockin:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z8tfEwzCGQ Calvillo with the Las Vegas Posse,hurt on first play of game vs Argos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-jvLATWJng Calvillo all-time passing yards record :rockin:
:thup: :thup: It's sad but the upsetting truth of this game is that the longer you stay in it, the less likely your chances are of going out on top and the more likely they are of going out on the decline or to an injury. I hope AC can bounce back and have at least one more decent season before he walks away, but the likelihood of that isn't very good right now. :(
I dont really think that that is a fair analogy
In 2009 and 2010 Grey Cup winning years He threw for 9478 yards and 58 TD
In 2011 and 2012 when they lost their playoff games 10333 yards and 63 TD
The team went down hill becasue of a bad D and ST
Look at the 2011 Semi final AC put 44 Points on the board and lost
They came within a dropped pass of making it to the 2012 Grey Cup game(Tieing it up at least)
2013…No he was not up to par but I put a lot of that on Hawkins…AC could not even call an audible…Im sure he could see the play was not going to work and he could do nothing about it…Im sure the times we saw him frustrated was when exactly that happened.
The hit was not vicious at all. It was simply bad luck where I think he made first contact with the ground with his head rather than his shoulders…
I hope he will be taken off the list early so that when he does call it a game…It will be on his terms
If his game went downhill the last few seasons what was every other QB’s excuse for not really matching up numberwise over the same period? I will grant that the team’s record slipped a bit over that time but the defense as a whole was not very good at all then. The 2011 Eastern Divisonal Semi-final was as good an illustration of that. If you mean by his own standards, 2011 was his first 5000 yard season since 2008.
For kicks, the numbers from 2011 to now among the seven key starters (this has to discount Edmonton the last two years and Toronto for 2011). I left out 2010 because I don’t know how you would count that as a declining year if you win the Grey Cup even after missing starts in the regular season and getting a scary prognosis on your thyroid in the process:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZozDXcyg8MA Chris Berman's tribute to Calvillo on ESPN's 2 minute drill segment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pXrL6MqMN8 A.C. Photo shoot for Readers Digest
They have mentioned that, but you never know with concussions. Look at the effect it’s had on Buck Pierce. Come back too soon and the wrong hit makes it worse. It might be in Calvillo’s best interest to hang them up. Lousy way to go out, but not like it’s going affect how his career is viewed.