Player has finger amputated to continue football season

A football player in Colorado ordered doctors to amputate a seriously injured finger so he can finish his senior year on the college team rather than sit out the season while it healed, according to the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel.

"You do whatever you have to do to play again," Trevor Wikre, an offensive lineman for Mesa State College, told newspaper reporter Allen Gemaehlich.

It happened when Wikre dislocated the pinkie on his right hand during practice Tuesday.