Lions Special Teams Decimated by Big Wheel?

In the most intriguing injury to occur to a Detroit athlete since Guitar Hero kept Joel Zumaya out of the 2006 ALCS, Jason Hanson appears to have injured his knee in some sort of ATV accident. Or was it an ATV accident? When asked very directly by reporters if it was an ATV accident, Hanson replied with such dodgy responses as "To say it was an ATV, I think it conveys something that it's not. I'm not even sure what classifies as an all terrain vehicle."

Hanson continued on like this, stating that he was not "goofing around" or "acting irresponsibly" but acknowledging the possibility that some members of the organization might be calling him an idiot behind closed doors. He said he is not hiding, and "it's just that I don't feel like telling the whole story to everybody".

I'm sure it's not at all an exciting story, and Hanson is just trying to keep it low-key because he was playing with his children and wants to keep them out of the media circus, and I respect that. But more than anything in the world, people like to laugh at each other when they do dumb things and hurt themselves. That's why prohibition failed. Please, Jason Hanson, release these home videos!!

What was really going on? The only reasonable specualtion I have heard is that he was riding his sons' big wheel, and is entertaining the ATV talk just to be clever.

On an hilarious side note, Lions's punter Ryan Donahue injured his quad placekicking at practice in Hanson's absence. The Lions have worked out punters and kickers in the event that either Hanson or Donahue is unable to play Sunday against the Bears. Among those worked out: the farmer in the dell, the old lady who swallowed a fly.