re: Damn, never knew this story about AJ

shite, people. He seems like a good kid.

No sense in taking shots at his family.

Later in the season it will come out that AJ never actually knew the waverunner IRL, but only through internet chat boards like tRant. He was asked one day about some things he and the waverunner did together and he panicked and made up this wreck story on the spot.

Before long the lie had grown too big to stop and he just ran with it.

Seeing as he almost got killed, it obviously wasn't safe.

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Seeing as he almost got killed, it obviously wasn't safe.

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There were 21 reasons I wanted to defend it, but I have 0 counterarguments to this.

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can think of 21 reasons it could be perfectly safe, and I would have 0 problems under the right conditions.


The 9 problems with that is there are 6 reasons he shouldn't have been on that jet ski.

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Its crystal clear that the 21 reasons trump the 9 problems.

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No sense in taking shots at his family.

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What?

putting five year olds on wave runners that almost kill them are the type of decisions that make perfect sense to universally condemn so no more dipshits do it again.

Great story. All schools have some wonderful players who do great things. We only hear about the bad. So refreshing to have a story about whats right with college football. All the teams we root for, most of the players do the right things and get no credit. Well, here's to those guys all over the SEC.

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9 reasons why that NC doesn't count in the last 6 years.

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We should just give it to you. The rant would be a better place. We have plenty to spare. Seriously, at this point I have to remind myself like I do with my age.

Seriously, y'all were the GOAT that year.

You're always angry.

AJ's story

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AJ sat in front of Tony and Tony’s nephew was in the back as they eased into the water. They didn’t go out to the big part of Dog River. Instead, they went the other way down a small canal.

“We were just going to ride down into the canal and come back up a couple of times so my dad could see us,” Tony McCarron said.

Instead, Tony’s father and the toddler, Corey, saw a horrific end to the new Jet Ski’s maiden voyage. On the second trip down to the canal and back Tony got behind a marine patrol boat and road on top of its wake. The police boat turned to go to the big part of the Dog River, and Tony turned the jet ski to go back toward the launch. As he did, a part of the jet ski called the sponson, designed to provide buoyancy and stability, caught on debris in the water and rocked the watercraft from side to side. When that happened, AJ reached for the handle The police boat turned to go to the big part of the Dog River, and Tony turned the jet ski to go back toward the launch. As he did, a part of the jet ski called the sponson, designed to provide buoyancy and stability, caught on debris in the water and rocked the watercraft from side to side. When that happened, AJ reached for the handle bar to hang on, and in doing so he also grabbed the Jet Ski’s throttle.

“By the time I realized what he had done it had already shot us 15-20 feet before I could get his hand off of it,” Tony McCarron said.

Suddenly, AJ, Tony and the nephew were going head-on into a chest-high wooden pier at a high rate of speed.

“The only thing I could think of was to try to knock them both off so they didn’t hit,” Tony McCarron said.

Tony pushed AJ off and he went face first into the piling bracing the pier. Tony struck the pier directly with his chest, knocking himself backwards. The watercraft dragged had him under the pier. Tony’s nephew was standing up in the water crying and screaming.

AJ was face down in the water knocked out.

Tony’s training as a rescue worker kicked in. As he picked his son out of the water he saw that the left side of AJ’s face was caved in and blood was trickling from both nostrils.

“Are you alright?!” he yelled.

AJ responded. He told his dad he couldn’t see well.

“I figured he would lose his eye for

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AJ underwent 10 to 12 hours of plastic surgery to repair the orbital. A plastic surgeon made an incision starting at his left ear and going across the top of the skull to his right ear so the skin on his face could be worked around. To repair the orbital area, doctors took cartilage from behind his ear and inserted five metal plates held together by screws to rebuild the orbital bone. AJ still has the same plates in his head.

AJ started school after the surgery and still had the staples in his head. The first couple of days he came home a little upset. Kids called him “railroad track” because of the way the staples looked going up his head. Later, some kids told him it looked like he’d cut number 1s in the side of his head because for a while his hair wouldn’t grow due to the scar tissue.

Tony said, “I sat him down and talked to him and I said, ‘Look, you had two choices: one -- carry that scar around with you, or two -- be six feet down in a grave. I think you got a pretty good deal out of it. For whatever reason it wasn’t your time to go and that was a pretty close call. You’re here and able to enjoy life and we have you, and that’s huge.’”

Aside from heightened sinus trouble an occasional funny feeling in his face there are no lingering effects from the accident or the surgery. If you look closely when Alabama is playing on television, his mother says, you can see the scar above his ear when he takes off his helmet. As a reminder, his mother has a plastic bag with the hair that was cut to make that incision.

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