Who needs all 10 fingers??

When I think of amputees, I usually think of brave soldiers who lost their limbs in Iraq and Afghanistan or innocent victims of cancer and freak accidents. But now, college football gives us an example of a man who has a far more "courageous" reason to lose his limbs. An example of a future American rocket scientist/brain surgeon: Trevor Wikre.

You see, Trevor Wikre had a choice: Lose his pinkie finger or lose his football season.
He told doctors to cut it off. He took no time to ponder. He said it wasn't a hard choice

Wikre, 21, is a guard for Mesa State College, a Division II school in Grand Junction, Colo. He had told teammates a couple of weeks earlier how much he loved them as brothers.
He told them that he would take a bullet for them and he looked at this injury as that bullet. Trevor Wikre: Genius Who Amputated Pinky to Avoid Sitting Out Season

The trauma came Sept. 30 when Wikre's right little finger shattered at practice. He pulled off a glove, saw bone jutting out and asked trainers to tape it up. They declined and got him to the hospital, where doctors advised him that he needed season-ending surgery.
He reminded doctors that he was a senior and that losing his senior season wasn't an option. Doctors tried to talk him out of it by explaining the troubles he would have later in life...didn't matter to this guy apparently. Eventually the doctors gave in....
Wikre missed one game. He played last week with a rubber cast.
Did he find any difference in how he played? "Just one less finger to hold with," he said, laughing softly.
How about differences in life?

"I can't hit the P on the keyboard very well," he said. "I have to train my ring finger to get over there. It takes time." Yeah...well good luck ever trying to receive change from a grocery store clerk because the coins will slip right through your fingers moron. Because the pinky is the plug that closes a clenched palm.

With good sense like this, I wouldn't bet that this idiot would make the same sacrifice for his country . . . but for his Division II college football team, that's the ticket.
Giving up your finger to avoid sitting out a season of D II college football. I think we've just found this year's Darwin Awards Winner.