Kenny Chesney doesn't let a little thing like having his foot crushed by an elevator come between him and his fans.
During his sold out concert Saturday night in Columbia, S.C. as Chesney was making his entrance before 44,424 members of the audience the country star, 40, apparently got his right foot stuck in the lifting device of an elevator hoisting him into the middle of the arena, Country Music Television News reports. Where's the steel-toed boots when you need them?
The show must go on and so Chesney completed the concert in obvious pain. Immediately after the concert, a team physician from the University of South Carolina attended to Chesney, whose boot was cut off and his knee treated, to minimize damage. The full extent of his injury is not known.
Chesney said, "I took one look at those fans, and there was no way I wasn't going on. Sometimes the energy and the adrenalin pull you through. They had come to rock, and there was no way I was sending them home with anything less than the best of what me and my guys came to do – put it all out there and give them back at least as good as they gave us." Crediting the local fans for his strength, Chesney concluded with, "Honestly, through the pain, through all of it, Columbia, S.C., totally got me through." That's the power of the fan's y'all.
Kenny Chesney tix go for an average of $60.00 (some up to $69) (buy tickets) so at 44,424 x 60 bucks, that's a whole lot of chicken scratch at around $2,665,440, that's $2.66 million in one concert, Corona all around. No wonder Kenny didn't want to disappoint the fans, that would be a lot of refunds and a lot less beach parties for the flip-flop-wearing star.
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