Okay, so half a century. In other words, this kind of life-threatening injury just doesn't happen very often. But serious injuries, yeah, that's happened, and they have a script for it. I saw both the Byrd injury and many years later the Shazier one during the broadcasts, and among other things, I could tell that they'd come up with a program for how to deal with neck/back injuries. Same with concussions, right? They have it down to a checklist.

Players almost dying doesn't come up that often, so it's probably not in the book.

Yeah don't think I will get much sleep tonight that was horrifying

The paid professionals behind the scenes that go unnoticed until the unthinkable happens. God bless all of them.

The thing a lot of med twitter was saying was that an NFL field is one of the most ideal places in the world for a severe event like this to happen.

I think back to that baseball player who had an aneurysm in his bullpen, and even EB’s early diagnosis.

The only other instances I can think of are College/High schools kids that have some type of medical emergency during game/practice.

A lot of respect for the first person to get CPR started. Said it earlier that most probably thought it was a head injury. When they noticed he was pulseless that must have been a shock for sure.

Man, so unthinkable. I get it. There'll be a plan now.

Did the vikings go right back to work when korey stringer died?

I'm on board.

Yes those of us who think our work is stressful, man, I can't imagine what a scenario like tonight is like for them. Mad respect for those people.

Pretty sure he died in training camp.

Thanks in advance for the moderation it might require.

Just started one.

Bills are flying back home so I guess there goes the “they’ll play tomorrow night” theory.

it's not a long flight