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'23 TNFR QB Shedeur Sanders (Signed to COLORADO)

He looks pretty comfortable on that board cruising a blue.

But yes, please don't fall!
Wasn't it Elway who had a no skiing clause in his contract?
I'd guess that a lot of the players would catch on to snowboarding quickly and easily. After all they are outstanding athletes with quick reactions and well developed sense of balance.

Much rather have them on a snowboard than on skis. Much easier for a ski to catch on something and twist a knee or ankle to a point of damage. The snowboard is much less likely to do that kind of damage. These guys know how to fall without getting hurt, just keep from getting legs twisted and forced into bad positions.

Don't know on Elway specifically but it used to be that almost all NFL player contracts included clauses covering what they considered hazardous or risky behaviors and skiing was included along with things like skydiving. Some even had prohibitions against things like pick up basketball. If a player wanted to participate in one of the listed activities his agent would have to negotiate an exemption for him but that usually involved waiving future guarantees or unpaid signing bonuses if the player was injured at the activity.

For this level of athlete at their ages I think the chances of suffering a serious injury snowboarding are relatively small, maybe lower than blowing a knee dunking a basketball at the rec center. The more they enjoy being in Colorado and partaking in this kind of activity the better it is in terms of them selling other players on coming here and playing.
 
I'd guess that a lot of the players would catch on to snowboarding quickly and easily. After all they are outstanding athletes with quick reactions and well developed sense of balance.

Much rather have them on a snowboard than on skis. Much easier for a ski to catch on something and twist a knee or ankle to a point of damage. The snowboard is much less likely to do that kind of damage. These guys know how to fall without getting hurt, just keep from getting legs twisted and forced into bad positions.

Don't know on Elway specifically but it used to be that almost all NFL player contracts included clauses covering what they considered hazardous or risky behaviors and skiing was included along with things like skydiving. Some even had prohibitions against things like pick up basketball. If a player wanted to participate in one of the listed activities his agent would have to negotiate an exemption for him but that usually involved waiving future guarantees or unpaid signing bonuses if the player was injured at the activity.
I can see what you're saying about injuries, but won't snowboards turn them into pussies?
 
I'd guess that a lot of the players would catch on to snowboarding quickly and easily. After all they are outstanding athletes with quick reactions and well developed sense of balance.

Much rather have them on a snowboard than on skis. Much easier for a ski to catch on something and twist a knee or ankle to a point of damage. The snowboard is much less likely to do that kind of damage. These guys know how to fall without getting hurt, just keep from getting legs twisted and forced into bad positions.

Don't know on Elway specifically but it used to be that almost all NFL player contracts included clauses covering what they considered hazardous or risky behaviors and skiing was included along with things like skydiving. Some even had prohibitions against things like pick up basketball. If a player wanted to participate in one of the listed activities his agent would have to negotiate an exemption for him but that usually involved waiving future guarantees or unpaid signing bonuses if the player was injured at the activity.
If you fall on a snowboard, it is binary - you are either up or down. If you fall forward, you possibly break a wrist, if you fall backwards, it is a tailbone. I don't know the rate of injuries or long term prognosis (minus Mrs. Highlander's broken tailbone that still affects her to this day)

On skis, your biggest risk is your knees. If you have a clue what you are doing, to get injured is very uncommon, but that is personal experience and likely no different from snowboards. The biggest risk is when you try to save a fall instead of just accepting it and then protecting yourself.
 
If you fall on a snowboard, it is binary - you are either up or down. If you fall forward, you possibly break a wrist, if you fall backwards, it is a tailbone. I don't know the rate of injuries or long term prognosis (minus Mrs. Highlander's broken tailbone that still affects her to this day)

On skis, your biggest risk is your knees. If you have a clue what you are doing, to get injured is very uncommon, but that is personal experience and likely no different from snowboards. The biggest risk is when you try to save a fall instead of just accepting it and then protecting yourself.
Making a lot of assumptions here but these guys are young and likely to be more aggressive than their skill levels might justify.

As I stated they know how to fall, they have done it thousands of times on the field so the chances of the wrist or tailbone injury for them is low. The chance of them skiing aggressively and catching a tip twisting their leg is probably higher than for the normal recreational skier.
 
If you fall on a snowboard, it is binary - you are either up or down. If you fall forward, you possibly break a wrist, if you fall backwards, it is a tailbone. I don't know the rate of injuries or long term prognosis (minus Mrs. Highlander's broken tailbone that still affects her to this day)

On skis, your biggest risk is your knees. If you have a clue what you are doing, to get injured is very uncommon, but that is personal experience and likely no different from snowboards. The biggest risk is when you try to save a fall instead of just accepting it and then protecting yourself.
Skis destroy knees. Snowboards wreck shoulders.
 
Skis destroy knees. Snowboards wreck shoulders.
With the crazy ways I've fallen on skis, I should have had a major injury by now. The one caveat is when I know I'm going down, I let it go and protect myself. I'm very confident the vast majority of ski knee injuries fit in two categories:

1) No ****ing clue what they are doing and the bindings release can't compensate for their crazy situation
2) Pride preventing them from trying to save something that is already lost and now they can't protect themselves anymore

I can't speak to snowboarding as I haven't done it beyond an introductory basis.

And now I have nothing to do with Shedeur, so, sorry!
 
All my knuckle dragging friends broke their collarbones atleast once. I only tried snowboarding one time, I prefer skiing.
 
If you fall on a snowboard, it is binary - you are either up or down. If you fall forward, you possibly break a wrist, if you fall backwards, it is a tailbone. I don't know the rate of injuries or long term prognosis (minus Mrs. Highlander's broken tailbone that still affects her to this day)

On skis, your biggest risk is your knees. If you have a clue what you are doing, to get injured is very uncommon, but that is personal experience and likely no different from snowboards. The biggest risk is when you try to save a fall instead of just accepting it and then protecting yourself.
Tell that to sonny bono
 
With the crazy ways I've fallen on skis, I should have had a major injury by now. The one caveat is when I know I'm going down, I let it go and protect myself. I'm very confident the vast majority of ski knee injuries fit in two categories:

1) No ****ing clue what they are doing and the bindings release can't compensate for their crazy situation
2) Pride preventing them from trying to save something that is already lost and now they can't protect themselves anymore

I can't speak to snowboarding as I haven't done it beyond an introductory basis.

And now I have nothing to do with Shedeur, so, sorry!
I grew up ski racing, 12 years, Eldora at nights after school and weekends. Raced at every ski area in the state. Only injuries were broken hands from hitting old-style bamboo gates planted in solid ice on Powderhorn at 8 pm. Crashed a bunch of times in downhills, only ever broke my skies.

Snowboarding always felt way more dangerous, and far more locked in to injury. No good way to recover, always an awkward fall.
 
I grew up ski racing, 12 years, Eldora at nights after school and weekends. Raced at every ski area in the state. Only injuries were broken hands from hitting old-style bamboo gates planted in solid ice on Powderhorn at 8 pm. Crashed a bunch of times in downhills, only ever broke my skies.

Snowboarding always felt way more dangerous, and far more locked in to injury. No good way to recover, always an awkward fall.
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this was probably more appropriate
I agree with this. Lol

The tangential issue under discussion was whether skiing or snowboarding was more hazardous? I offered my opinion based on some experience, never claiming to have been great at either, only that I had—gasp—crashed several times and not been injured. If that’s bragging, the bar is stupidly low.

Now, if I had mentioned that I played little league baseball…. Well… I could understand the hand-wringing.
 
I agree with this. Lol

The tangential issue under discussion was whether skiing or snowboarding was more hazardous? I offered my opinion based on some experience, never claiming to have been great at either, only that I had—gasp—crashed several times and not been injured. If that’s bragging, the bar is stupidly low.

Now, if I had mentioned that I played little league baseball…. Well… I could understand the hand-wringing.
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With the crazy ways I've fallen on skis, I should have had a major injury by now. The one caveat is when I know I'm going down, I let it go and protect myself. I'm very confident the vast majority of ski knee injuries fit in two categories:

1) No ****ing clue what they are doing and the bindings release can't compensate for their crazy situation
2) Pride preventing them from trying to save something that is already lost and now they can't protect themselves anymore

I can't speak to snowboarding as I haven't done it beyond an introductory basis.

And now I have nothing to do with Shedeur, so, sorry!
I may have posted this in last year's ski thread, but one of your posts there made me realize that my season ending injury could've been avoided if I had just laid down.

Being a new skier, not laying down isn't a point of pride for me so much as a challenge to whether I can recover when I get out of position and off-balance. My goal is to fall at least once or twice each time I hit the slopes.

Anyway, following that injury and your prior post, when I next found myself in the same position as when I tore my calf (skis pointed uphill and me unable to immediately turn around and my legs starting to do the splits), I just laid down. And felt quite smug about, being uninjured and all.
 
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I just read the new Howell BDC article on Jatta. Jatta made a comment about how Shedeur is easily a 3,000 yard passer each of his first 2 years, so if they can protect him he'll do that at CU and we'll be good.

I hadn't really thought of it that way. Only 38 FBS QBs threw for over 3,000 yards in 2022. https://www.ncaa.com/stats/football/fbs/current/individual/453

Looking down the list and the teams they were on, it may just be that simple. If you have a QB who throws for over 3k in CFB, it's a virtual lock that you'll win more than you lose.
 
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yeah, there was that and several others saying it wasn't Shedeur Sanders, as well as several saying it was him. I guess I trust HCDS more than any other.
I saw a picture of him on the slopes with Jeremy Bloom.

Edit: Oops. Posted before I saw the pic of him in the slopes with Jeremy Bloom, :LOL:
 
I saw a picture of him on the slopes with Jeremy Bloom.

Edit: Oops. Posted before I saw the pic of him in the slopes with Jeremy Bloom, :LOL:
Yeah, i think HCDS was being sarcastic and, as we've all seen play out numerous times, the sarcastic tone was lost in the written electronic communication.
 
CP went out and got the OC, the WRs, the TE, the RB to support the best dang QB seen playing for CU in a generation. Now, the OL is the great mystery here.
 
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