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A bizarre series of events led to ESPN reporter Michelle Beisner-Buck having surgery Wednesday to repair a damaged nerve in her broken ankle, thanks to a golf ball hit by her husband Joe Buck.
“Monday Night Football” announcer was reported by his colleague Adam Schefter for “accidentally driving a golf ball” into his wife’s ankle. The details have arrived an incredible video posted by Buck himselfrecorded by filing Beisner-Buck to the operation.
Buck explained that the incident happened on July 7 in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, where the couple decided to play a round of golf before Buck competed in the American Century Championship celebrity golf tournament. .
We’ll just let Buck blame the “total freak accident” that happened on the 10th hole:
“We got there at 10 a.m. and I said, ‘Why don’t I do a few trips outside of 10 a.m. and then we’ll go get something to eat?’ Well, 10 is a little hole from left to right and Michelle has been known to do handstands throughout our dating and marriage, even before [their son] Joey arrives on the scene. So she did a handstand at the end of the tee-box for luck, outside and to my left.
“Just as I was starting, she decided, with her feet in the air, to do the splits, letting her right leg fall a little to the side, right in my line of sight. I hit a golf ball, TaylorMade, with little designs on it, into the inside of his right ankle and broke it.”
This may all sound ridiculous, but whoever didn’t do the splits while in a handstand near the front of a T-shirt should cast the first stone.
Unfortunately for Beisner-Buck, the damage was severe. She said not only was her ankle “shattered”, but the tibial nerve, a key nerve connecting the foot, was also “severely” damaged. Nothing could have been done to repair the nerve during his six weeks in a hard cast, and nerve blocks and lidocaine infusions would not have worked.
Hence surgery to decompress the nerve. The incident apparently shook Buck as well, while his wife insisted it wasn’t his fault:
“Needless to say, my guilt is off the charts. I still wake up in the middle of the night hearing that sound and it makes me sick. It was a bad sound.”