I hope you will take some time to review this interactive narrative, in which I explain why I believe Larry Hall and Robert Malphurs have betrayed their duties to the NTPSA and its members. We all know that Premier Park has not met our expectations. Herein you will learn why. My name is David Gray and I played in the NTPSA for 7 years, until I was seriously injured at Premier Park.
In a mundane maneuver, jumping for an uncontested header, I came down on sloping ground on Field 5, and my right knee was virtually destroyed. I was the top scorer on my team and in my division. I was in excellent health, and I was active in many sports and outdoor activities. I had never had a serious leg injury of any kind in any sport prior to playing at Premier Park. When I landed that day on the sloping surface at Premier Park, my ACL was partially torn, my meniscus was torn loose from the tibial plateau, and my cartilage was damaged to the bone of the femoral condyle and tibial plateau, leaving me bone to bone in an inoperable area, as well as another significant cartilage injury to the patella-femoral joint.
So in a moment, I went from having never been injured, to never being able to play soccer again, and needing a knee replacement if I ever hope to participate in outdoor activity again. When I told family and friends that I was injured on a soccer field that had 6 to 10 inch high humps running across it every 10 yards like a wave pool, they asked “How is that possible?” “Why didn’t they fix them?” “Why didn’t you play somewhere else?” I began to ask myself the same thing. So I decided to investigate.
As I investigated, people started telling me that they too had been injured there, or had seen others injured there. Virtually everyone I spoke to told me they regularly see players fall down and have fallen down themselves because of the undulating surface. My team’s goalkeeper, who has played maybe 40 games there (he played summer league), swears he has seen more non-contact leg injuries at Premier Park than he has seen in the rest of his life of soccer. Then I ran into a referee team I knew, and I asked them about Premier Park. Two of them became very quiet, but the third eagerly spoke up. He believed Premier Park was extremely dangerous, and no longer worked games there. He passionately recounted to me that he worked 10 or 12 games, and saw 5 or 6 leg injuries that he attributed to the fields. One of my own teammates told me that he had experienced a jolt in his hip, and another sprained his ankle. Numerous team captains have told me that they have complained and objected to playing at Premier Park, but they still end up being scheduled there.
I decided to sue the NTPSA for my damages. I did not have medical insurance, and I have $75,000 in medical expenses, and probably still have a knee replacement procedure in my future, which will cost another $50,000. I was a general contractor, a roofing contractor, and a mechanic. I underwent open surgery to repair my right knee, but I have been left with a limp, I cannot run or jump, I cannot lift or carry anything heavy, I cannot climb ladders or walk on roofs, I cannot kneel or get up off the floor easily. I can no longer do most of the things I used to do, professionally or athletically. I have lost my livelihood, a year and a half of income to date, and my active lifestyle. I am basically starting my life over again.
This website is my report to the members of the NTPSA and the North Texas soccer community, to share what I found.
Click on the links to open up evidence exhibits. Click back when you finish with the exhibit. All exhibits have relevant portions highlighted.
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