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lauradi7dwI was idly scrolling down my Twitter feed last night as we watched the Rose Parade (which I had recorded earlier in the day. My parents are gone, so I didn't need to watch it live so I could talk to them on the phone about it as it was happening). Suddenly at a little after 9 PM all of twitter seemed to be about one thing, the serious condition of Buffalo Bills (an NFL team) player Damar Hamlin, who was being given CPR on the field. I already knew that American Football (1) is popular among a wide variety of the people I follow on Twitter. Political commentators, medievalists, ER doctors, prison abolitionists all apparently had been watching, and weighed in. Through some algorithmic thing, people I don't think I normally follow started showing up. Many of the larger group were commenting that they were praying, representing all of the Abrahamic faiths. There was universal scorn of the NFL higher-ups who felt that once he was removed from the field (by ambulance) there should be a few minutes break and the game should resume. The coaches refused. There was outrage that one of the TV sportscasters seemed to be more worried about how this would affect the playoffs than that a 24 year old apparently nice guy (2) was possibly dying. The sports betting people were rejected with swearing.
What I would like is for this to be the last straw, with no more American tackle football (3), but that won't happen. The players whose lives were ruined by head trauma eventually started receiving sympathy (and medical aid) but it didn't change anything. A cardiac event of this sort happens in sports, most often in baseball, but it can't be ruled out. A sharp blow to the chest that messes up the cardiac system (4) is different from the exertional sudden cardiac death in basketball, which can sometimes be predicted with universal heart condition screening before someone is allowed to take up the sport.
DH may or may not be sort of OK after more medical treatment, but I wonder if all of the players on both teams are going to need therapy after being so close to the event.
(1) As opposed to football, which in one alphabet or another means soccer in most of the world. The sports medicine-related textbook I used called it American Football without any explanation - it was supposed to be obvious.
(2) He helped with poor kids even when he was in college, and had started a fund to buy toys and other goods. As of this morning, $4 million dollars had been donated by people who wanted to do *something* supportive, besides (in addition to?) praying.
(3) I enjoy watching kids play "flag" football for the short duration of my attention span. I would like it better if it were called ribbon football, a more accurate descriptor. It would be fun to see grownups kicking and running and grabbing ribbons from each other's belts instead of trying to kill each other.
It exists - why isn't it more popular? I don't really buy the idea that most spectators are there for violence.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTyY5hr7qb0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYb3I9DLawk
(4) The hospital hasn't released a diagnosis, but the twitter docs were guessing commotio cordis. This is from mayoclinic.org
>>Blunt chest injury. A hard hit to the chest that causes sudden cardiac death is called commotio cordis. Commotio cordis may occur in athletes who are hit hard in the chest by sports equipment or by another player. This condition doesn't damage the heart muscle. Instead, it changes the heart's electrical signaling. The blow to the chest can trigger ventricular fibrillation if it strikes at a specific time in the signaling cycle.<<
What I would like is for this to be the last straw, with no more American tackle football (3), but that won't happen. The players whose lives were ruined by head trauma eventually started receiving sympathy (and medical aid) but it didn't change anything. A cardiac event of this sort happens in sports, most often in baseball, but it can't be ruled out. A sharp blow to the chest that messes up the cardiac system (4) is different from the exertional sudden cardiac death in basketball, which can sometimes be predicted with universal heart condition screening before someone is allowed to take up the sport.
DH may or may not be sort of OK after more medical treatment, but I wonder if all of the players on both teams are going to need therapy after being so close to the event.
(1) As opposed to football, which in one alphabet or another means soccer in most of the world. The sports medicine-related textbook I used called it American Football without any explanation - it was supposed to be obvious.
(2) He helped with poor kids even when he was in college, and had started a fund to buy toys and other goods. As of this morning, $4 million dollars had been donated by people who wanted to do *something* supportive, besides (in addition to?) praying.
(3) I enjoy watching kids play "flag" football for the short duration of my attention span. I would like it better if it were called ribbon football, a more accurate descriptor. It would be fun to see grownups kicking and running and grabbing ribbons from each other's belts instead of trying to kill each other.
It exists - why isn't it more popular? I don't really buy the idea that most spectators are there for violence.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTyY5hr7qb0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYb3I9DLawk
(4) The hospital hasn't released a diagnosis, but the twitter docs were guessing commotio cordis. This is from mayoclinic.org
>>Blunt chest injury. A hard hit to the chest that causes sudden cardiac death is called commotio cordis. Commotio cordis may occur in athletes who are hit hard in the chest by sports equipment or by another player. This condition doesn't damage the heart muscle. Instead, it changes the heart's electrical signaling. The blow to the chest can trigger ventricular fibrillation if it strikes at a specific time in the signaling cycle.<<
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Date: 2023-01-04 01:14 am (UTC)