Add “Jolly Rancher” to the list of early-season injury concerns for the Dallas Cowboys.

Barry church missed practice because of a cherry jolly rancher .. Seriously .. Chipped tooth and needed root canal …that’s a first — Nick Eatman (@nickeatman) July 30, 2013

Cowboys safety Barry Church had to miss practice on Monday of this week after a chipped tooth required him to get a root canal. The culprit for the chipped tooth? A Jolly Rancher.

From CBS Eye on Football:

Here’s the scoop. A few weeks back, the Cowboys safety was slurping happily away on his favorite hard candy when he chipped his tooth. He felt a little pain, but he didn’t worry so much about it, until this past Monday when he said he woke up and the pain in his mouth “was crazy.”

Church went to a dentist, and they had to numb him up and do an emergency root canal procedure, causing him to miss practice.

If we’ve said it once, we’ve said it a thousand times here at For the Win: we need safety warnings on Jolly Rancher wrappers. How many more senseless injuries are we going to see?

A mock-up:

See? Simple and effective.

(Thanks to CBS Eye on Football for sharing.)