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Originally Posted by Megatron96
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.
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I read each preseason a couple of deaths across the nation each year from high school / college level practicing in the early season heat. If you really dig you will find a ton of unfortunate deaths due to football.
https://www.statnews.com/2021/11/25/...otball-fields/