San Francisco 49ers running back Reggie Bush on Wednesday filed a lawsuit in St. Louis over a knee injury that occurred when he slipped on concrete behind the team’s bench during a November game, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.
Bush, who sustained a season-ending cartilage tear from the incident, filed his case against the St. Louis Regional Convention and Sports Complex Authority and the St. Louis Convention and Visitors Commission.
Bush, who turns 31 in March, is scheduled to be a free agent. The suit claims the owners and operators of the Edward Jones Dome were negligent by allowing “a dangerous condition to exist at the Dome” and dangerous to those on the turf and sidelines.
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Bush seeks at least $25,000 in damages.
Bush sustained the injury after being pushed out of bounds at the end of a punt return. When Bush tried to stop on the concrete, his slipped on the concrete and slid into the permanent wall. The suit states that the surface was nicknamed “concrete ring of death.”
The next time the Rams played a home game, the concrete was covered with a rubber surface, presumably for better traction.