They may be capable of the amazing and wowing millions of fans but our favourite sportsmen are also capable of the bizarre.

In this case, we're talking bizarre injuries, with the recent broken toe suffered by North Melbourne youngster Levi Greenwood the latest in a long line of eyebrow-raising moments.

Greenwood will miss the opening weeks of the AFL season after a mix-up with his ... track suit pants. "I was at home, in my trackies coming down the stairs and my toe got caught up in the leg of the pants and it twisted," Greenwood explained on kangaroos.com.au.

"I sort of slid down the stairs and banged it on the stairs as I fell. It swelled up and hurt quite a bit so I had scans and there was a small fracture there."

Greenwood's incident prompted backpagelead.com.au to go searching for some of the more bizarre injuries reported locally and internationally.

Here's our list of some of the more memorable bloopers thanks to some quick Googling and our own library.

Rio Ferdinand
During his spell at Leeds, the England defender complained of pain in his knee while ... watching television. Ferdinand had his foot up on a coffee table for a number of hours and ended up injuring a tendon behind his knee. So, to all you couch potatoes out there, beware!

Chris Lewis
On the 1993 tour of the West Indies, England teammate Devon Malcolm shaved Lewis's head. Believing his dark pigment would protect him from the sun, the fast-bowling allrounder then spent the day without a hat. Lewis suffered sunstroke and, er, missed the first warm-up game.

Brad Ottens
The dual Geelong premiership ruckman twice has form in this area. In 2002, when at Richmond, his season was interrupted after he was impaled by a garden stake, having fallen from a ladder. And this summer just gone he seriously injured himself in a water-skiing accident. Ottens uffered cuts to his hand, arm and leg after he made contact with the propeller of the boat he was skiing behind.

Derek Pringle
The former England allrounder is now one of the game's premier cricket writers, but the traditional tale is that writing hasn't always been so kind to him. It was long considered he once was forced to pull out on the morning of a Test with a back strain after hurting himself ... writing a letter.  But the truth is that he aggravated an old injury when his chair collapsed.

Craig McDermott
The former Australian spearhead was forced to return home before a Test had been staged on the 1995 tour of the West Indies after jumping off a seawall, landing awkwardly and seriously damaging his ankle on his way back to the team hotel in Guyana. The only laugh for big "Billy" came when he was treated by local GP - Dr Billy Fung-A-Fat. As Steve Waugh noted in his tour diary, that name was a "tough one to say after a few ales".

Brent Renouf
The young Hawthorn big man required skin grafts to burns on his arm, leg and lower back after being knocked into a beach fire by a group of young men wrestling on the Gold Coast on New Year's Eve. The Hawks insisted at the time alcohol was not to blame.

Liam Anthony
The talented Kangaroo midfielder severed a tendon in his finger last November. He gouged his left ring finger when he bumped an uncovered glass lamp outside an Albury hotel room, while trying to phone his girlfriend.

Michael Voss
Brisbane Lions champion Michael Voss almost severed a finger at his home in 1999 while trying to attach a trailer to his car. Voss feared he would lose the finger as he drove to a nearby hospital with it hanging by the skin.

Sammy Sosa
The former Chicago slugger entered baseball's wacky injury fraternity in 1997 when a double-barrelled sneeze brought on back spasms. Instead of joining his teammates on the field, Sosa spent a Sunday afternoon in the Cubs' clubhouse receiving back treatment. "It would've been better if I had run into the wall or we had a fight with somebody," a sheepish Sosa said later.

Colin Montgomerie
The Scot had declared on the eve of the 2002 British Open he felt so fit that "I should win by five shots". Instead, he had to withdraw after tripping over a step on his way to breakfast when he was looking up at the sky in disbelief at the bad weather. He suffered a swollen right wrist and badly bruised knees and, although he tried to play, he abandoned his attempt after seven holes. At least Montgomerie sought medical help. John Daly once squirted superglue on his hand to seal a wound inflicted by a piece of glass.

Ken Griffey Jr
According to Kansascity.com, the  Major League Baseball hitter once missed a game after his protective cup slipped and pinched one of his testicles.  Ouch.

Nathan Eagleton
This shows you don't always have to be doing something to get hurt. The Western Bulldogs midfielder was crouching down to get his breath back during training over summer when his knee locked. He was forced to have an arthroscopy later that day.

Kevin Johnson
The former stand-out Phoenix Suns point-guard of the 1980s and early 1990s had just nailed a game-winner when he was crushed by teammate Charles Barkley in the celebration. Barkley's hug dislocated KJ's shoulder and he watched the next game with his arm in a sling.