Roy Williams (the overrated one on the Cowboys ... no, that doesn't work ... you understand) was a Sooner. The guy who just savaged Chris Rainey with a horse-collar tackle, even if not technically, is a Sooner. Coincidence? I think not. There's a reason those tackles are illegal. The receiver is going forward with all his might, but the defender is pulling him down with all his weight from behind, and it's so easy for the defender to fall on an outstretched leg with a ton of weight on it. Roy Williams tends to break people's legs, but Rainey looked like he suffered something more like a torn groin muscle. Bo Jackson dislocated his hip, I believe, on what amounted to a horse-collar, and it prematurely ended the career of one of the most promising athletes in recent NFL memory. They really need to liberalize the definition of that foul so they can call it more.
Update: According to the FOX sideline reporter, it's a sprained right ankle. I wouldn't be surprised, based on the tackle and the degree of pain Rainey appeared to be in, if his leg was broken just like Terrell Owens' was when the Roy Williams was first put into effect.
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