{"id":23813,"date":"2014-09-22T13:21:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T13:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/double-checked-tulloch-suffers-torn-acl\/"},"modified":"2014-09-22T13:21:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-22T13:21:00","slug":"double-checked-tulloch-suffers-torn-acl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/double-checked-tulloch-suffers-torn-acl\/","title":{"rendered":"Double Checked: Tulloch suffers torn ACL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Allen Park, MI (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Tests on Monday revealed that Detroit Lions linebacker Stephen Tulloch suffered a torn ACL in his left knee Sunday and will be lost for the season.<\/p>\n<p>Tulloch was injured when celebrating a sack of Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rodgers. The linebacker jumped, did the popular &#8220;Discount Double Check&#8221; motion across his belt and suffered the injury while landing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;re passionate about the game and you want to get up and celebrate and people do it many times,&#8221; said Tulloch after the game. &#8220;It&#8217;s unfortunate that it happened to me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tulloch had 20 tackles and two sacks in three games this season.<\/p>\n<p>Lions coach Jim Caldwell said he doesn&#8217;t plan on squashing post-play celebrations in the wake of the injury.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not going to happen,&#8221; said Caldwell on Monday when announcing the injury. &#8220;This is an emotional game &#8230; we want enthusiasm.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allen Park, MI (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Tests on Monday revealed that Detroit Lions linebacker Stephen Tulloch suffered a torn ACL in his left knee Sunday and will be lost for the season. Tulloch was injured when celebrating a sack of Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rodgers. The linebacker jumped, did the popular &#8220;Discount Double Check&#8221; motion across [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,50,52],"class_list":["post-23813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-detroit","tag-detroit-lions","tag-lions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}