Ailing Knee or Not, Jeremy Shockey Intends to Play

For the second time in three seasons, tight end Jeremy Shockey’s team is in the Super Bowl. But this time he hopes to play, after sitting out because of an injury when the Giants beat the Patriots after the 2007 season.

Shockey is still dealing with right knee soreness that limited him in New Orleans’s two playoff games — and kept him out of practice Thursday.
He injured his right knee in the Saints’ first playoff victory, against Arizona, but he said he would be ready on Feb. 7.

“The last two games you guys have seen me play, it wasn’t really me,” Shockey said. “I was out there on one leg. It felt like being on a pogo stick. This week I’ll have two pogo sticks instead of one.”

Earlier this week, Shockey flew to Birmingham, Ala., to get a second opinion from Dr. James Andrews, an orthopedic surgeon, on what Coach Sean Payton described as “more of a bruise.”

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(nytimes.com)