A news report said: “San Francisco 49ers linebacker Dre Greenlaw’s leg gave out at the most devastating of moments. As Greenlaw prepared to run back onto the field for another Niners defensive series with 9:26 left in the second quarter of Sunday’s 25-22 Super Bowl LVIII overtime loss to the Kansas City Chiefs, he injured his left leg. Coach Kyle Shanahan confirmed after the game that Greenlaw tore his Achilles tendon. As often happens with Achilles injuries, Greenlaw’s came without contact and at the most inopportune of times. The Niners had just punted the ball back to the Chiefs before Greenlaw and his defensive teammates were about to go back on the field.” He reportedly had suffered Achilles tendonitis during recent games, but is that really a normal vulnerability, to have the Achilles tendon just give way, “without contact and at the most inopportune of times?” Is there anything sinister about this?

This, indeed, is sinister because it is deliberately induced to happen at all levels of sporting, especially the professional level because of the high visibility and the impact it has on a large number of other witnesses who have a stake in things, if only emotionally, as fans and loved ones of the participants. While it is true that there can be a weakening of the tendon through a partial tear that makes a worsening more likely through a lesser demand because of the weakened state, this is a favorite tactic of the interlopers to manipulate the outcomes of sporting contests by inducing injuries in key players at key moments. We have commented previously that the Achilles tendon is a tempting and effective target for an individual incapacitation because it will seriously sideline the player, likely for the duration of the season, if not beyond as well, and that is what has been noticed among NFL teams, that torn Achilles tendons seem to be perversely taking place all too easily and taking out top-level players disproportionately. While this is easily rationalized as those key players perhaps trying harder, straining their bodies more, pushing themselves beyond safe limits through their outsized dedication and highly conditioned endurance in other respects so that perhaps the Achilles tendon, being the weakest link, finally gives way, because of a kind of abuse, and is an occupational hazard of top athletes. In actuality, while it is true the body does have limits and such things can happen innocently, this has become a kind of calling card of extraterrestrial interference with sporting events, and the fact it happens during periods of calm, and not necessarily during an ongoing melee of the contest itself, is because they want a relatively stable target to more easily deliver an energetic beam that will injure that tissue and it is much easier to do with a still or a slowly moving target than a rapidly moving one.