All I know is this:a doctor was talking about how the heart is in an extremely vulnerable state at a precise moment--if you take a sharp blow during that precise moment, it can lead to cardiac arrest. I forgot when she stated that precise moment is.But, yeah, football is a dangerous game and it happens. If it was any other sport, I might question it but football is full contact.Then again, I am just stating what I heard from an MD on the news.Who knows.
I watched the hit, if the impact knocked him into ventricular fibrillation I have real doubts he would have been able to stand up as he did.
Years ago, they used to play this game called "open chest", where basically you'd sneak up on pals and punch them right around the heart -https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Open%20Chest%21 .It stopped greatly and they even had a few school assemblies after this happened -https://apnews.com/article/200f2ac2ce80b3e25a8423a407ff6708 .Same thing, quick odd blow at just the right moment, stops the heart. The kid in that old story even said "good hit" then dropped in a similar fashion.
I think that is probably what happened, but I agree that we may never know for sure. I haven't seen a full video of the resuscitation. I've seen the ones that show the hit and then the collapse. The exact timeline afterwards is unclear to me. Did they do CPR for a long time and then use the AED only much later?
This recent paper from Dr. Polykretis and myself gets the sharp rise in athlete deaths into PUBMED. Since vaccination, "1598 athletes suffered cardiac arrest, 1101 of which with deadly outcome. Over a prior 38-years (1966-2004), 1101 athletes < age of 35 died (~29/yr).
Guys have been paralyzed a few times in the nfl this will blow over in a few weeks when the playoffs start the kids career is probably over though
In other news a former NFL Player did pass and this was his views...
Please enlighten us on what’s going on? Mr PHD, CSNBC, CNNhe took a massive hit in the chest……Yes, the vaccine decided to kick in, what timing…..
in football they always say it was a freak accident not like it's a common thing which it is.
Reading through this thread, yours was the first post to explain what happened, lol. I was wondering what the heck almost cost this guy his life.
Where is the water into wine?
He was making a tackle, hit hard, barely got up, off balance, and collapsed
It was hilarious reading this thread, presumably with every Getbigger having watched the game or otherwise known what happened.Meanwhile, I'm here in Canada like "wut...we watch hockey here."I have yet to see a video of the event, but I'd be curious how this happened. For a person's life to be on the line like this...