I originally chose them because they were the correct color. One issue with the winter gloves from the Twilight Princess costume is that while incredibly soft, they weren’t very rugged. Scissors capable of cutting leather, or a good razor blade and straight edgeĭye applicators (sponge brushes from Home Depot work too)įabric Glue (or super glue may work) What Gloves to Buy.
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Without further ado, how to make: Fingerless Link Gloves What You’ll Need You can purchase them, or save some money and follow our tutorial. But Mike made a pair of gloves for another costume a few months ago and solved that problem. So the biggest concern with making these gloves was to prevent the stitching in the fingers from unraveling after cutting off the finger tips. The first pair that I made for my Twilight Princess costume were made from leather gloves from Wal-Mart, but unfortunately they were only available around winter. "I've been lucky to not have any major injuries, but to have someone have to chip away at your bone and dig into it to get it to the point where they can cover it back up was pretty painful the night after," he said.So as I work on my costume for Link from Zelda: Breath of the Wild, it is time to remake my fingerless Link gloves. The pain was unlike anything he'd experienced physically as a football player, Johnson said. The Cardinals safety lost the top part of his left middle finger on another play. But you know, this type of stuff happens." Rashad Johnson prepares to tackle the Saints' Jimmy Graham on Sunday. It was pretty shocking to see it that way. "It didn't really set in until this morning when I got here and we took the gauze off and got it cleaned up here and I actually got to see it was the same length as my index finger. "I was joking around in the hospital because they had me some pretty good stuff to get through the pain, so I was joking around with the guy and taking pictures and laughing with him," Johnson said. The true impact of what happened Sunday didn't hit Johnson until he had the bandage replaced at the team hotel in Sarasota, Fla., where the Cardinals are staying while they prepare to play the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday. I can't even imagine feeling and seeing that as if I was Rashad." "Especially the way the trainers were explaining the incident when he came out to the sidelines and his gloves were drenched in blood and it was leaking like a faucet. "It's just a matter of pain tolerance."Ĭardinals cornerback Patrick Peterson, who didn't see the play but said his teammates thought Johnson broke his wrist by the way he was holding his hand, called his teammate a "trouper" for trying to play Sunday. However, it was Arians who left the door open for Johnson to play Sunday against Tampa Bay. The Cardinals tweeted out a photo of Johnson's wrapped up hand.ĭuring #AZvsNO, #AZCardinals S lost the tip of his left middle finger. There were no plans to reattach the finger, and Johnson's injury may take a few weeks to heal. Doctors shaved down the bone in the finger to prevent infection and stitched up the wound.
The rest of Johnson's finger, including the nail, was still in the glove. On the game film, Johnson saw himself kneeling, looking at his hand, and he remembers blood coming out the glove.Ĭardinals trainers cut off the left glove to find his middle finger severed just above the knuckle with exposed bone. After the play, Johnson remembers his hand being numb. Johnson broke away from a blocker to help bring down Saints running back Darren Sproles on a punt return with 5:24 left in the first half. He thinks the finger was driven into the turf at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome and snapped off. However, playing amateur detective, Johnson believes the finger didn't get caught in a face mask or stepped on by a cleat because his glove wasn't ripped or torn.
Johnson can pinpoint the play when the gruesome injury happened but has no idea how it occurred. The primary determining factors will be whether the finger can avoid infection because the bone was exposed briefly and whether Johnson can tolerate the pain. If he thinks I'm ready to go, I'll definitely be prepared mentally and physically to go and play."
I'm gonna go in, watch my film, make sure I know everything that's in the game plan, and when the time comes around and the decision needs to be made, it'll be in Coach Arians' hands. "I'm going to approach just like any other game week. "I'm just going to take it day to day, see how everything heals up and how it feels," Johnson said. No fingertip? No problem.Ī day after he lost the tip of his left middle finger in a 31-7 road loss to the New Orleans Saints, Arizona Cardinals safety Rashad Johnson said he may play Sunday at Tampa Bay.
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