Green Bay — In the hours after Brett Goode unknowingly tore his ACL, the long snapper for the Green Bay Packers returned home and couldn't sleep. He was agitated by a gnawing pain in his left knee, a kind of dull ache he described as "annoying." It fell far short of an uncomfortable throb, but it made Goode uneasy about carrying his son up and down the stairs.
By the time morning arrived on Monday, Dec. 21, a day after Goode played the whole game in a 30-20 victory over the Oakland Raiders, he made the decision to visit the team doctors.