Gymnastics and golf don't go well together.
Joe Buck's wife, Michelle Biedner Buck, just wants to be able to do a handstand again after her husband hit her in the ankle with a golf ball, resulting in complications from nerve damage that required surgery.
Buck revealed the “brutal truth” of what happened on a golf course in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, on July 7, when his wife did a handstand just outside the tee box, lifted her legs and began doing the splits.
Her body was in a T-shape, and her ankle was in the direct line of fire when the TaylorMade golf ball struck her ankle.
“She did a handstand on the edge of the tee box for good luck, and just as I tee off, she decided to lift her legs up for a split, and she stepped her right foot a little to the side, putting her in my line of fire,” Buck recounted in a playful video filmed from his car with his wife in the passenger seat.
“He took a TaylorMade golf ball with a tiny design on it and struck her on the inside of her right ankle, shattering it.”
“Shattered,” Michelle added emphatically. “Now I'm wearing this.” [showing off a big protective boot]”
“And now we're going to have surgery. Michelle's going to have surgery. She owes it all to me,” Buck replied.
Buck is the play-by-play announcer for “Monday Night Football,” and Buck Beesner is a reporter for ESPN and the weekly telecast.
Buck Beesner is a former Broncos cheerleader, so it's easy to see why he likes to do handstands.
“We had him in a cast for six weeks and now he’s been in this cast for two and a half weeks. [boot]”To make matters worse, not only was I injured — and this was no fault of his, it was a freak accident — but not only was it shattered and broken on impact, but the nerve that runs from just under the ankle bone down to my foot, called the tibial nerve, was severely damaged.”
Michelle added that doctors had previously recommended non-surgical treatments such as fusion surgery and nerve blocks, but none of them seemed to work.
The surgery, which was said to have been “successful” on Thursday, was performed to relieve pressure on the tibial nerve and improve blood flow to the area.
Mr Buck added that he felt extremely guilty about the incident, which left someone with terrible injuries.
“Needless to say, my guilt is immense. It still wakes me up at night and makes me sick when I hear it,” Buck said.
Michelle reassures her husband that it's not his fault and says she wants to get back on track and do a handstand again.
The two TV journalists have been married since 2014.
