Gailey led the team to two playoff appearances with a 10 – 6 record in 1998 and an NFC East championship, but the Cowboys were defeated in the playoffs by the Arizona Cardinals 20-7 ; after an 8 – 8 season in 1999 ( during which Irvin suffered a career-ending spinal injury in a loss to the Philadelphia Eagles ) ending in another playoff loss ( this time to the Minnesota Vikings 27-10 ), he was fired and became the first Cowboys coach who did not take the team to a Super Bowl.

The Bills ' defense dominated the Raiders ' offense, which was without running back Bo Jackson, who suffered a career-ending injury against the Cincinnati Bengals the week before, limiting them to an early field goal and intercepting five passes from quarterback Jay Schroeder.

Adding to the problems, Bernie Parent suffered a career-ending eye injury.

The following season, line-mate Toe Blake suffered a career-ending ankle injury.

He sought to play baseball professionally after graduation but suffered a career-ending ankle injury in his junior year.

In 1996, he was cast as an arrogant football player on the brink of a career-ending injury in Cameron Crowe's Jerry Maguire ( 1996 ).

However, after playing in only ten minutes against the Hornets on November 22, 1994, Bol suffered what proved to be a career-ending injury, and never played in the NBA again.

* Steve Moore – Professional ice hockey player with the Colorado Avalanche until a career-ending injury.

He lost his left field job in 2011, and he batted. 230 with a career-low 7 home runs in 92 games in addition to suffering a career-ending foot injury.

On July 15, Burrell was placed on the disabled list with a potentially career-ending foot injury.

Before the 1998 racing season, Peintre Celebre suffered a career-ending injury and was retired to breeding at Coolmore Stud in Fethard, County Tipperary, Ireland.

Likewise, Noda was diagnosed with a career-ending waist injury by the same doctor, ending their dreams of Kōshien.

Moore is perhaps best known for receiving what turned out to be a career-ending injury as a result of an on-ice attack from then-Vancouver Canucks forward Todd Bertuzzi in 2004.

On February 17, 1979, Parent suffered a career-ending eye injury in a game against the New York Rangers.

Some cover the entire foot ; these warmers usually have a pad that grips the floor so the dancer does not slip-however this has been known to cause career-ending injury.

Fans of the Philadelphia Eagles American football team are notorious for heckling ; among the most infamous incidents were booing and subsequently throwing snowballs at a performer dressed as Santa Claus in a halftime show in 1968, and cheering at the career-ending injury of visiting team player Michael Irvin in 1999.

During the bout, however, he suffered a near career-ending injury.

After a career-ending injury, Howard joined the staff at Clemson College and became head coach in 1939.

A Benefit All-Star Game was held at the Gardens in 1934 as a benefit for Leafs forward Ace Bailey, who had suffered a career-ending head injury.

As a free agent in 1998, he joined the Jets where he finished his career in 2005 due to a career-ending knee injury.

Seeing this career-ending injury as a door to a spiritual awakening, she went to college and received a degree in theology.

The examination determined that Miles ' knee injury was severe enough to be career-ending, prompting the Blazers to request waivers for his release on April 14, 2008.

Under NBA rules, if a team is granted salary-cap relief for a career-ending injury to a player who thereafter participates in at least ten games the next season, the salary cap relief is terminated and the amount is added back to the team's salary cap ceiling.

On 3 February 1962, Nari Contractor, the captain of the touring Indian team, received a career-ending head injury from a bouncer bowled by West Indies fast bowler Charlie Griffith.

It eventually took the intervention of the White House, U. S. Congress and the Secretary of the Navy — and the very real threat of changing the Navy's admiral-selection system to include civilians — before the next flag-selection board welcomed the twice passed-over Rickover ( normally a career-ending event ) into their ranks.

Drafted out of West Virginia University by the Chicago Bears in the first round of the 1958 NFL Draft, Howley played for the Bears for two seasons before retiring after what appeared to be a career-ending knee injury he sustained during the 1959 training camp in Rensselaer, Indiana.

In the summer of 2007, shortly before he suffered his season-ending and ultimately career-ending neck injury, Alstott appeared in a television commercial for ESPN Fantasy Football along with former teammate Warrick Dunn, who was later signed by the Falcons.

A 1990 graduate of Victoria College at the University of Toronto, he studied English literature, and played varsity basketball before sustaining a career-ending knee injury.

Anderson played eight seasons with the Falcons, amassing 5, 336 rushing yards, 156 receptions for 1, 645 yards, and 41 touchdowns before he suffered what became a career-ending tear of his ACL in 2001.

It had been a tragic season with the deaths of Gilles Villeneuve and Riccardo Paletti, and the career-ending injuries of Didier Pironi.

After the 1973-74 season, Cunningham returned to the 76ers, where he played until he suffered a career-ending injury early in the 1975-76 season.

The game begins at the end of the previous season, when Quentin Sands of the New York Nightmare lands a devastating, career-ending hit on your team's star quarterback ( like Taylor's infamous sack of Washington Redskins QB Joe Theismann ), as the team is demoted to Division 3.

Among his claims were that his career-ending injury was the result of being forced to wrestle in the rain while in Puerto Rico.

In 2004, Emerson published his autobiography entitled Pictures of an Exhibitionist, which dealt with his entire career, particularly focusing on his early days with The Nice, and his nearly career-ending nerve-graft surgery in 1993.

It also served as the home for the San Diego Chargers, on October 27, 2003, when the NFL moved a game against the Miami Dolphins there, due to wildfires in Southern California ( it was the first Monday Night Football game in the stadium in four years-the last MNF game there prior to 2003 was the game wherein legendary San Francisco 49ers quarterback Steve Young suffered his career-ending concussion ).

Less successful was his work on Lone Justice's second album Shelter, which was a career-ending flop for the Los Angeles cowpunk band.

Then on June 19, at Pocono International Raceway came his father's near-fatal, career-ending crash at Pocono.

Gen. Walter Q. Gresham received a career-ending wound while on a reconnaissance mission.

But against A & M later that year, he suffered a career-ending knee injury on a late hit

During the tour he suffered a near career-ending knee injury, tearing his anterior cruciate ligament and having to undergo surgery which kept him on the sideline for an entire year .< ref >

However, on November 28, 2008, it was reported that the heart condition " may be career-ending.

One of the highlights of Lloyd's wrestling career was fulfilling a childhood dream of winning the NWA World tag team titles, which he accomplished with Jason Sugarman on December 28, 2002, but Sugarman retired shortly after due to a career-ending injury.

Pang suffered a career-ending knee injury on September 21, 1990, during training camp.

Randolph broke his ankle on November 30, 2006, in an accident during practice that teammates described as gruesome, comparing it to former NFL quarterback Joe Theisman's career-ending injury .< ref >

Encarnación suffered a career-ending injury after getting hit in the eye by a foul ball on August 31, 2007.

Whitmer joined The Prophecy on December 22 at Final Battle 2003, and confessed that he had been behind a career-ending attack on Lucy, the valet of CM Punk, earlier that year.

Dorenbos was signed to a two-year contract by the Philadelphia Eagles on November 29, 2006 after Mike Bartrum suffered a career-ending neck injury.