Trial begins over Reggie Bush's 2015 injury in St. Louis

A civil trial began in St. Louis on Tuesday to settle a lawsuit filed by former NFL running back Reggie Bush, who's reportedly seeking at least $25,000 in damages for an injury he suffered at Edward Jones Dome (now the Dome at America's Center) in St. Louis in 2015, according to Joel Currier of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Bush submitted the lawsuit against the St. Louis Regional Convention and Sports Complex Authority and the St. Louis Convention and Visitors Commission in January 2016, after he suffered a season-ending knee injury as a member of the San Francisco 49ers when he slipped on concrete as he was being pushed out of bounds.

"You can see, it's like all of a sudden he's running on an ice rink," Bush's lawyer Tim Cronin told jurors in opening statements Tuesday as he played video of the injury in the courtroom. "Whatever risks a football player assumes, concrete 11 yards outside the sidelines is not one of them."

The then-St. Louis Rams were added as a defendant roughly two weeks after Bush initially filed the suit, which claims the owners and operators of the dome showed negligence by allowing "a dangerous condition to exist at the Dome."

The suit states the concrete surface was covered with rubber padding two weeks after the injury.

"There have been hundreds of games here and they haven't had any issues with it," said then-Rams head coach Jeff Fisher shortly after the incident.

Bush finished the 2015 season with just 28 rushing yards in five games. He then signed with the Buffalo Bills for the following season but lost three yards on 12 carries in 13 games, though he added 90 yards on seven receptions.

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