Monday, January 02, 2023

Day 1067: The Other Football

While we at PlagueBlog Headquarters have been expecting the vaccine against soccer to eventually affect a major American sport live on camera, we watch little enough of it to have expected to witness the event ourselves. But we were watching today's Bills game when 24-year-old Damar Hamlin mysteriously collapsed on the field.

One would also have expected people to be a little more aware of the recent carnage on the soccer field and a little more prepared for SADS, but it's all shock and ad-libbing from the teams and reporters. As of press time the game is still suspended.

P.S. The Internet is grasping at a diagnosis of commotio cordis, but it's extremely rare, even rarer in adults, and also rarer in non-projectile sports like football.

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