Ronika Stone Love, the wife of Green Bay Packers quarterback Jordan Love, has recently criticized television networks for their “unhinged” portrayal of injuries in sports. This comes just weeks after her husband suffered a concussion during a game against the Chicago Bears. Stone Love has witnessed numerous injuries throughout Jordan’s NFL career, including a season-ending MCL sprain in the 2024 season opener that affected him for the entire year.

In the most recent incident, Jordan Love missed Green Bay’s loss to the Baltimore Ravens and, although he has cleared the concussion protocol, he is expected to sit out the Week 18 matchup against the Minnesota Vikings to prepare for the Packers’ wildcard playoff game. Meanwhile, the Las Vegas Raiders have yet to announce their starting quarterback for their Week 18 game against the Kansas City Chiefs. Additionally, Baker Mayfield has encouraged his Tampa Bay Buccaneers teammates as the team struggles through a challenging second half of the 2025 season.

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Stone Love, who is no stranger to the physical demands of sports—she is a professional volleyball player—recently took to TikTok to express her frustration with how TV networks cover injuries. She shared her preference for watching games live rather than at home, citing the emotional toll of seeing her husband injured on screen.

“Can we just talk about how unhinged sports networks are when it comes to showing injuries?” she said on TikTok. “If it’s a gruesome injury, worst thing they’ve ever seen in their lives, and it’s just too graphic to show their viewers, they’re not gonna show it again. But if they’re like, ‘He only got kind of f—ed up,’ they’re gonna play that a thousand times.”

She continued: “My husband plays in the NFL, and the amount of camera angles they will pull out to show an injury, and then commentate on it just to see if it’s as bad a hit as they thought it was. ‘We’re going to show you five different angles, and we’re gonna slow-mo it,’ it’s insane.”

“Watching a game on TV is 1,000 times worse than watching a game in person because, god forbid, he gets injured. But if he gets injured while you’re there, it’s like your heart falls out of your chest and you’re sick to your stomach. But then the game goes on, and you’re thinking about it, but you don’t see it anymore. It’s like it happened.”

“When you’re watching it on TV, buckle up. They’ll come back from commercial and be like: ‘In case you missed it, here’s how he got f—ed up on the last play.’ Then randomly throughout the game, they’ll be like ‘If you’re wondering why he’s not in, we’re gonna show you why he’s in the locker room right now.’ They’ll slow-mo it and be like ‘ooo, he’s in a lot of pain. Let’s watch it again!’ Oh my god, it’s horrible, horrible, horrible.”