18 Year Old Loses His Life Playing Football
18 Year Old Loses His Life Playing Football
AndAllThatJazz22
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/8/08
#118 Year Old Loses His Life Playing Football
Posted: 8/22/09 at 10:02am-Danmeg's 10 year old son.
#2re: 18 Year Old Looses His Life Playing Football
Posted: 8/22/09 at 10:05amThat's so terrible. My heart goes out to everyone in that town.
~Dirty Rotten Scoundrels~
~Curtains~
~A Tale of Two Cities ~
#2re: 18 Year Old Looses His Life Playing Football
Posted: 8/22/09 at 11:35amThat's terrible. Something similar happened to one of my high school's star football players too, though it wasn't during a game. He was out jogging in our neighborhood and just collapsed. I don't understand how this happens to athletes, it's so sad.
StockardFan
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/08
#3re: 18 Year Old Looses His Life Playing Football
Posted: 8/22/09 at 12:34pmThis also happened to a boy on the freshman basketball team at a school I used to teach with. So sad.
#4re: 18 Year Old Looses His Life Playing Football
Posted: 8/22/09 at 12:46pm
Horrible indeed.
The tragedy notwithstanding, I couldn't help but wonder who wrote that piece? One of the students attending that school? Someone for whom English is their second language? There's no proofreading? Can the proofreader be just as uneducated?
Oh well, my rant for the day.
StockardFan
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/08
#5re: 18 Year Old Looses His Life Playing Football
Posted: 8/22/09 at 1:06pmJane, I thought maybe it was written by an ESL person too.
ShbrtAlley44
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/1/03
#6re: 18 Year Old Loses His Life Playing Football
Posted: 8/22/09 at 1:11pm
Terrible story. Just as a side note, it's "loses" his life, not "looses."
It really is scary how the littlest thing can affect the body to the point of death.
AndAllThatJazz22
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/8/08
#7re: 18 Year Old Loses His Life Playing Football
Posted: 8/22/09 at 2:46pm
Please forgive me for my grammatical error. I replaced that link with a much better one.
Here it is.
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2009/aug/21/football-player-collapses-field/?partner=popular
-Danmeg's 10 year old son.
#8re: 18 Year Old Loses His Life Playing Football
Posted: 8/22/09 at 3:07pm
That poor family. My heart goes out to them.
Sounds like it might have been Long QT syndrome.
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#9re: 18 Year Old Loses His Life Playing Football
Posted: 8/22/09 at 3:37pm
This seems to happen somewhere at least once a year.
It's odd that it's athletic kids who are dropping dead of heart problems, and not the fat, lazy ones.
#10re: 18 Year Old Loses His Life Playing Football
Posted: 8/22/09 at 4:07pmTragic beyond belief! All sports have an element of danger, and football is one of the worst. I blame the schools.
Yawper
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/13/04
#11re: 18 Year Old Loses His Life Playing Football
Posted: 8/22/09 at 4:11pmFat, lazy kids drop dead, too. They just don't get the press.
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#12re: 18 Year Old Loses His Life Playing Football
Posted: 8/22/09 at 4:15pmOh, snap
#13re: 18 Year Old Loses His Life Playing Football
Posted: 8/22/09 at 4:18pmAren't cases like this usually caused by undetected heart conditions?
SueleenGay
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
#14re: 18 Year Old Loses His Life Playing Football
Posted: 8/22/09 at 4:48pm
Jim, you really blame the SCHOOL? REALLY?
You are more delusional than I thought!
#15re: 18 Year Old Loses His Life Playing Football
Posted: 8/22/09 at 4:56pm
Jim, Jim ,Jim, kids with undiagnosed heart problems will die and they do whether it is on the sports field or walking down the street, or shoveling snow. It is NOT the school's fault. We do not know the reason for this kid's death, could have been an aneurism. Schools are not responsible for weak artery walls... or ARE THEY?!?
SueleenGay
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
#16re: 18 Year Old Loses His Life Playing Football
Posted: 8/22/09 at 4:57pm
Do we know this man was not a closet drug addict? Has an autopsy been performed?
I blame Dolly Parton.
#17re: 18 Year Old Loses His Life Playing Football
Posted: 8/22/09 at 5:03pm
I smell a country song in this.
#18re: 18 Year Old Loses His Life Playing Football
Posted: 8/22/09 at 5:11pm
blame the school?
I'm pretty sure that when a student is about to participate in a sport, there is a physical examination requirement and that physicians and parents must sign and give their permission. In this way, the school is not responsible.
StockardFan
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/08
#19re: 18 Year Old Loses His Life Playing Football
Posted: 8/22/09 at 5:22pmJane, that is correct.
#20re: 18 Year Old Loses His Life Playing Football
Posted: 8/22/09 at 8:16pmYou must be medically cleared to play sports at the high school and college levels. Drug tests are, often, part of these exams. EKGs, CAT scans, and MRIs are not.
SueleenGay
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
#21re: 18 Year Old Loses His Life Playing Football
Posted: 8/22/09 at 8:59pmHow about drug screenings?
#22re: 18 Year Old Loses His Life Playing Football
Posted: 8/22/09 at 9:03pmI guess the presence of drugs would show up in the blood tests.
#23re: 18 Year Old Loses His Life Playing Football
Posted: 8/22/09 at 9:12pmAs I said...drug tests are, often, part of these exams.
AndAllThatJazz22
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/8/08
#24re: 18 Year Old Loses His Life Playing Football
Posted: 8/22/09 at 9:16pm
^ As a High School Student in a very Football-oriented area, I can assure you that Football coaches can be pretty friendly with these tests (if they have to be).
-Danmeg's 10 year old son.
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