The Super Bowl is one sporting event like no other. You can bet that anyone who isn’t a football fan will be watching it anyway, because…. It’s awesome. It’s pumped up, sweaty, sporting excellence punctuated by live music, cheerleaders and (if we’re lucky) an alluring Victoria’s Secret commercial. Miami will host this year’s most famous sporting dual between the New Orleans Saints and the Indianapolis Colts. But we didn’t need to tell you that.

As well as enjoying all that athletic prowess and beer sinking, there is of course a chance that you might see something, utterly horrifying. No, it’s not a crazed middle-aged man streaking, it’s a career-ending injury.

If it’s your team, your life is over, if it’s their team, your life just got that much better and if you’re neutral? Well it’s just good old macabre fun. But it’s not every Super Bowl that you encounter such a newsworthy sporting calamity. And in case you don’t see someone snap their femur FHM’s Top 5 Worst football injuries are over the following pages, just to satiate your lust for gore.