Pittsburg State's Joe Windscheffel Out for Season After Zebra Attack

Division II football players like Pittsburg State's Joe Windscheffel don't always have it as easy as major college players are perceived to. Many of them hold down jobs, in addition to their full-time school schedule and a practice schedule that isn't a whole lot different from their big-time brethren.

In the case of Windscheffel, the need to get some work done off the football field has cost him any chance of playing this season.

Windscheffel is a redshirt freshman defensive back/linebacker for the Gorillas of Pittsburg (Kan.) State University, a powerhouse program in Division II that annually produces All-American players and makes regular appearances in the Division II playoffs.

Windscheffel is hardly small, standing 6-foot-2 and weighing 225 pounds, but he was no match for a zebra.

Yes, a zebra.

Windscheffel, a 6-foot-2, 225-pound linebacker/safety from Smith Center, recently had to move three female and a male zebra to paint a fence along a pasture line.

But the male charged him, bit his arm and would not let go. The animal was dragging Windscheffel by his arm when two of his fellow farm hands finally freed him.

... He was left with a compound fracture on his forearm that required a plate and six pins.

Sounds like Windscheffel might be a bit injury-prone, as he missed the 2008 season with an Achilles' injury.

As for the zebra, which is obviously a fan of rival Northwest Missouri State, there's no word on if Bill Snyder would like to know more about its athletic background.

(Pat on the butt: Deadspin)