Harvin Hospitialized: Misses Vikings Camp

by Sam Householder on May 1, 2009 4:05 PM CDT

Harvin is hospitalized in Atlanta after falling ill Thursday while changing planes en route to Minnesota. According to Childress, Harvin has "extreme dehydration" and a virus, but has tested negative for swine flu. He will be released in 24-48 hours, Childress said, and will return to his home in Gainesville, Fla.

Is it too soon for a pot joke? Like maybe the dehydration is from cotton mouth or he smoked a joint laced with something? Probably, but I made them anyway.

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Brad Chilress:

“He started feeling ill on Wednesday and had a hard workout with their strength coach on Wednesday. But what I think, what I’m going to conjecture, our doctors have spoken extensively with those people down there. When you take, I think he was scheduled in talking to his dad, 14 or 15 trips on airplanes here in the last couple of weeks. Including two here, the one that he left from here on Sunday, when he came back, was delayed an hour-and-a-half here in Minneapolis. He got to Atlanta at midnight, missed a connection.

“They got in a car and drove to Jacksonville, got there at 7 o’clock in the morning. And he had three workouts the week that I was down there [last week]. I just think the grind had caught up with him. That’s what they are calling extreme dehydration probably exacerbated by that hard workout. It’s an unfortunate circumstance but it is what it is.”

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by Dane Noble on May 1, 2009 4:12 PM CDT reply actions

he might need to drink

some of Tim Tebows sweat.

Think With Your Dipstick Jimmy!

by ifuwannacrownem on May 1, 2009 4:28 PM CDT reply actions

Hope he feels better.

by Allie on May 1, 2009 4:58 PM CDT reply actions

Give him a Gatorade

And call him a wussy.
He is a TRUE VIKING already!!!!
(insert Viking horn sound here)

by Bearsguy34 on May 1, 2009 5:25 PM CDT reply actions

Dehydration is a biotch to deal with...

I had more IVs stuck in my arm than I would like to remember (well, some I don’t remember). I don’t like Harvin, and I really don’t like the Vikes, but I do hope he recovers quickly…

by Dane Noble on May 1, 2009 5:28 PM CDT up reply actions

I've been dehydrated and hospitalized

After a long night of smoking the devil’s lettuce, I like the guy and I’m glad to see he doesn’t have the Swine Flu.

"The phone's for you, I think it's the Devil."

by Acreman20 on May 1, 2009 6:02 PM CDT reply actions

I'm so Dehydrated

am I on the Soul Plane?!?!

If you want to crown em...

by JohnnyTruant on May 1, 2009 7:47 PM CDT reply actions

Ugh... no fun gettin sick on an airplane...

I can attest to that. Hope the dude gets better… wouldn’t wish that on anyone.

"You win because of the quarterback. We have to get that position stabilized. We're fixated on that." -- Jerry Angelo (12.30.2008)

Jerry Angelo trades for Jay Cutler! (4.2.2009)
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by SackMan on May 1, 2009 9:43 PM CDT reply actions

I can't believe how positive this post is

I thought for sure I would see a joke about popping Niacin or a Comet Bomb to pass a drug test when he got to Minnesota as the real cause. No you never wish someone ill, but in the words of Butkus, “unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something”.

I hope his flu lasts all year.

If God had wanted man to play soccer, he wouldn't have given us arms.- Mike Ditka

by Hurricanes becoming Bears on May 1, 2009 10:45 PM CDT reply actions