Your knees are fragile, protect them...

Knees are fragile joints that can turn on you in a moment. So don’t take them for granted. The knees aren't built to withstand the impact, pressures, and torque that humans tend to apply to them. Our whole body is supported and propelled by a thigh bone sort of balanced on top of the lower leg bones, all of which is held in place by a few muscles, tendons and ligaments. When you are a girlish soccer poof like Ricardo Oliveira, from Brazil, one blade of grass out of place can have you crumpling to the ground completely ruining your soccer dress. That stain will never come out which is something he will really be crying about later that evening. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) Knees are in fact the most frequently injured part of our bodies. Even layers of padding and a sheet of ice beneath you can't stop the pain or swelling that can occur for when you suck like Detroit Red Wings goalie Manny "The Big Pussy" Legace. He we see him laying on the ice during the first period in Detroit, Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2005. Legace left the ice under his own power and was given a wowwy-pop until his mommy could come down from the stands and give him a kiss and a Spongebob Squarepants band-aid to apply to his boo-boo. You've earned your nickname well, sir! (AP Photo/Paul Sancya) Overuse injuries or strains sneak up on unwitting victims who do too much, too soon, too often, or just repeat the same activity too many times. Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger grimaces on the bench after running for so many yards and scoring countless touchdowns but was able to play through the game as gallons of life's rich fluid stained the field beneath him. Roethlisberger didn't miss one quarter of football after his knee was stapled back together on the sidelines. Football is not for the weak, just ask legendary homosexual Brian "the Boz" Bozworth. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) Well, I hope we cleared something up about the fragility of the human frame and how only big babies grab at their broken extremeties when the TV camera's are upon them. Even with the breadth of knee research coming down the pipeline, these joints will continue to explode into fragments like poorly mixed cement. It's how we show the pain which will be remembered in the annals of history. I mean, look at this baby pictured above. I bet he cried so much when his tibia snapped that members of his tribe just chose to bury him in his shame.