by A series of bizarre events led ESPN reporter Michelle Beisner-Buck to undergo surgery Wednesday to repair a damaged nerve in her ankle, which was caused by a golf ball hit by her husband Joe Buck.
According to his colleague Adam Schefter, the “Monday Night Football” commentator “accidentally stuck a golf ball into” his wife’s ankle. The details came in an incredible video posted by Buck himself, recorded as he dropped Beisner-Buck off at the doctor’s office.
Buck explained that the incident occurred 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 handle the “terrible accident” that happened on the 10th hole:
“We got to 10 and I said, ‘Why don’t we do a couple of drives on 10 and then we’ll go get something to eat?’ Well, 10 is a little left-to-right hole and Michelle has been known to do handstands throughout our courtship and wedding, even before [their son] Joey arrives on the scene. So she did a handstand at the end of the tee box for good luck, outside and to my left.
“At the exact moment I was kicking off, she decided, with her feet in the air, to do the splits, letting her right leg fall a little bit to the side, right in my line of fire. I hit a golf ball, TaylorMade, with little designs on it, into the inside of her right ankle and broke it.”
This may all sound ridiculous, but let whoever hasn’t done the splits while standing near the tee box throw the first stone.
Unfortunately for Beisner-Buck, the damage was severe. She said that not only was her ankle “shattered,” but the tibial nerve, a key nerve that connects to the foot, was also “severely” damaged. Nothing could have been done to repair the nerve during the six weeks she was in a hard cast, and nerve blocks and lidocaine infusions would not have worked.
Hence surgery to decompress the nerve. The incident apparently left Buck in shock as well, while his wife insisted it wasn’t his fault:
“Needless to say, I feel extremely guilty. I wake up in the middle of the night hearing this noise and it makes me sick. It was an unpleasant noise.”
