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What's wrong with Stuart Scott's eye? - Wednesday, October 20, 2004 12:36 AM
Anybody know what happened with his left eye?
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RE: What's wrong with Stuart Scott's eye? - Wednesday, October 20, 2004 12:36 AM
i always wondered that too.
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RE: What's wrong with Stuart Scott's eye? - Wednesday, October 20, 2004 12:51 AM
I don't know the clinical term for it, but he's got what is commonly referred to as a "lazy eye." It's not as uncommon as it seems. I've worked with a few people who have it both worse and not as bad as Stuart Scott.

It takes a little getting used to, because naturally, you get weirded out by someone's eye not looking at you when they are talking. But after awhile, you just get used to it and ignore it. :)

It can be corrected by surgery, but some people don't like folks going in and messing with their eyes. Scott probably has elected to live with it, instead of surgery.
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RE: What's wrong with Stuart Scott's eye? - Wednesday, October 20, 2004 12:51 AM
OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH cold as ice!!! goofin' on Stuart Scott's dead eye!?!?! OMG!?!?
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RE: What's wrong with Stuart Scott's eye? - Wednesday, October 20, 2004 1:00 AM
I heard that a football player threw a ball and hit him in the eye...
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RE: What's wrong with Stuart Scott's eye? - Wednesday, October 20, 2004 1:03 AM


ORIGINAL: efx

I heard that a football player threw a ball and hit him in the eye...


You sure it wasn't a penalty flag?
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RE: What's wrong with Stuart Scott's eye? - Wednesday, October 20, 2004 1:20 AM
Read Here 2002:

Q. Back in the spring, you sustained a severe eye injury while filming a story about football minicamps with the Jets. Tell us what happened.

I had gotten in shape and (Jets coach) Herman Edwards gave me permission to go to minicamp with them. I was doing a feature for ESPN on what it's like to be in minicamp. But I was serious about it.

The day I was there, there were eight wideouts and the wide receiver coach said I was rated number six. I didn't have any delusions of grandeur. I was hoping I'd be good enough to be a scrub wide receiver or a practice wide receiver in the NFL. I found that out that day. I didn't disappoint myself and I didn't embarrass myself.

At end of practice all the wideouts went to the Jugs Machine, it's a machine that shoots balls out. I had never done that before. I had been catching everything that day in practice from the quarterbacks. I was probably a little close and the thing was fast and the thing was faster than I thought it was.

Q. The ball, coming out of the machine, hit you square in the left eye. How bad was it?

It was serious. I had emergency surgery that night and was out of work for a couple months. It was tough. I had some eye surgery before so I knew how severe it was. It was probably more scary that day, not knowing. The next day came and I knew it would be a long recovery back. I still need some more surgery. The eye is not great now. But I had some time off.

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RE: What's wrong with Stuart Scott's eye? - Wednesday, October 20, 2004 1:31 AM
Wow, thanks for posting that.. I had no idea
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RE: What's wrong with Stuart Scott's eye? - Wednesday, October 20, 2004 4:24 AM
I have had a Lazy eye (the left, as well) for most of my life. I remember having surgery when I was 5 or 6 years old. What they do is they shorten the muscle to stop it from pulling too far to one side and sometimes it works. It didn't work for me. I've had to walk with a bandaid over my left spectace glass for months, hoping it would adjust and it never did. I'm used to it, ti's only other people that get freaked out by it (I even had someone question me about it during a job interview) and it gets worse when I'm very tired. But reading the above explanation, I'm glad I never had something like that happen to me.
 

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