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If Kenny Chesney wins Entertainer of the Year again this year, I don’t want to hear any complaints about it.  After the man had bones in his foot crushed during a technical mishap in his show opener, he performed the whole concert without a single complaint:

Chesney did not acknowledge the problem during the early part of his performance which was scheduled to end around 11 p.m. Saturday. However, he was visibly limping and seemed to rest near a drum riser while leaning over and holding his knee during the instrumental breaks of his hits.

A team physician from the University of South Carolina waited nearby while Chesney completed his performance. Upon leaving the stage, Chesney’s boot was cut off, and the doctor treated the injury to minimize damage.

“I took one look at those fans, and there was no way I wasn’t going on,” Chesney said in a written statement issued following the concert. “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. … Honestly, through the pain, through all of it, Columbia, S.C., totally got me through.”

All country fans pay lip service to their commitment to the fans, but that kind of dedication put into in action is astonishing.     Best wishes to Chesney for a speedy recovery.