Courtesy Edmonton Journal:

The fantasy scenario for Dan and John Comiskey lasted all of three plays.

With the crowd roaring in their ears, Dan, 35, and his baby brother John, 27, lined up beside each other Saturday in a regular-season game between their Edmonton Eskimos and the Saskatchewan Roughriders.

Two brothers. One team. One goal.

Not 10 minutes in, John looked up to see Dan hobble off the field in obvious agony. Dan’s pain threshold is legendary, so his little brother knew instantly that something was wrong.

Seriously wrong.

“From what I saw, there was a big pile,” John said before boarding the team bus outside Mosaic Stadium. “It looked like he got rolled up on from behind.”

The Eskimos went on to lose 34-13 to the defending Grey Cup champions.

” I’m not a doctor or a trainer in that respect, but he wouldn’t be staying down unless it was something very valid,” John said.

Dan missed five games last year with a torn calf muscle before returning for the Labour Day Classic. He tore his triceps early in that game but managed to keep playing in spite of the pain.

Upon returning home, the coaching staff placed the six-foot-five, 315-pounder on the nine-game injured list to close out the year.

“It’s a rough game, we play,” said John Comiskey. “A violent game. You know that can happen at any time, on any play. When you play in the tenacious manner that we do, anything is bound to happen.”

Considered the anchor of the offensive line, Dan Comiskey went to the hospital for X-rays and returned after the game on crutches. He is expected to miss at least a few weeks.

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