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Originally Posted by KurtCobain
A lions player died on the field in 1970. They continued to play the game afterwards.
Also, wasnt a Bills player 15 years ago or so essentially parylized on the field and the game went on? I remember that being even scarier on field than this.
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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.