One Decision to Ruin it All
There are about 40-50 career-ending sports injuries a year and I was one of them. Back in 2013, my father forced me to go out for football. That was the best thing I could have done until… One day everything changed.
“Set, hut!” The quarterback ordered as I took off down the field. The ball was thrown and it was to me, a fifth grader. I caught the ball and started running for the touchdown when out of the corner of my eye I saw the biggest guy on their team gaining yards. I tried to split into center field, then I was lifted up and thrown to the ground. Darkness fastly approached.
I was awoken by one of the coaches and I shot up. He sounded concerned as he growled, “Are you alright.” I explained what happened and
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The ball was thrown and it was to me, a fifth grader. I caught the ball and started running for the touchdown when out of the corner of my eye I saw the biggest guy on their team gaining yards. I tried to split into center field, then I was lifted up and thrown to the ground. Darkness fastly approached.
I was awoken by one of the coaches and I shot up. He sounded concerned as he growled, “Are you alright.” I explained what happened and that my wrist was just a sprain and there was nothing to be worried about. For the next 2 hours, my head was throbbing so bad like it was trying to tell me something wasn't right in my wrist. I was so bullheaded that I brushed the excruciating pain off and kept going because a “sprained” wrist was the least of my worries.
Later that day I asked a friend’s mom if my wrist was broken or if it was just a sprain. She said:”It is just a sprain,” Because she was a nurse, I believed her. Plus it didn't hurt much at the time. Much later we left his mom’s house and drove to his father's house about an hour away. Once we arrived we played some football outside for a couple of hours. Boy, that was an experience trying to catch a bullet pass with a broken wrist. Mid play his father stepped outside and yelled: “ Suppertime,” so we sprinted inside and scarfed down food until our stomachs were about to burst. Once “bedtime” hit we jumped on the PS3 and played some Call of Duty: Black Ops Zombies for the rest of the
I think most NFL players get injuries because experience traumatic brain injuries at rates. Most football players who play for the NFL are to risky to play for the NFL to get hart and something else. Some people think that it is safety to play football because do not appear to have much of the impact. Most of the players started had injuries in 2015. Someone can concussion is a brain injury that can cause someone or somebody to lose consciousness. the US Army Research Laboratory in Baltimore is looking at using the specially designed straps that would help the helmet to the body and similar to suspenders to help the football players with the injury or not to have injury. It can start to help the football players when they practice every day
Football players who are subjected to multiple repetitive blows to the brain can experience serious long-term damage that can affect every aspect of their lives. These blows have a cumulative effect on the brain that can lead to symptomatic concussions, asymptomatic post-concussive abnormalities, and altered neurological and cognitive functioning. Furthermore, participating in tackle football prior to the age of 12 places an individual at an even greater risk for degenerative damage. Kevin Turner, an Ex-New England Patriot and Philadelphia Eagle, took these risks. He began his career as a tackle football player at the age of 5 and ended his career after playing in the NFL for only eight years. In 2010, he was diagnosed with debilitating ALS
His dad kept saying the game was over and how no one can stop his son. Next play Ishaad ran the ball down the sideline and I thought about all the things there Coach said and hit him so bad he was laying there he didn't get up he was held his leg. His dad ran on to the field and the ambulance came. I can't even lie I felt like the happiest guy in Chichester I felt like Tom Brady when he won the Championship . We starting to get back in the game 34-28. We got the ball at the Goal Line. The QB Nuddy Freeman handed it off to me and I ran on the side line where the coach´s side was and did a fancy run just to see the frustration on his face.He threw his hat down and walked towards the bench. There was only 7 minutes on the clock they were down 35-34. We ran on the field jumping up and down the audience was too. Chichester was so mad they did not even want to watch us get
I fell. This felt like I didn’t have a wrist. But I got back up really carefully and went up to the lounge to my dad and sister. Ah, Ah, Dad I think I broke my wrist. No you didn’t. It was swelling up, It hurt so bad I couldn’t even believe this was happening.
I'd like you to read about a local quarterback who died last year from a lacerated spleen. The injury was not preventable by normal standards, but is no less traumatic.
It was half-way through the second quarter in the semifinals, and the Sun Valley Vikings were up by 14. They were on our own 10-yard line, and they were handing it off to one of their biggest and best players, Jack Krump, up the middle. I was in at safety, and I ran up to tackle him at the five-yard line but he came trucking through I just bounced right off of him like a wall. I heard the crowd cheering, so I could tell he scored a touchdown. They kicked the field goal and it was, good. We then ran into formation to receive the kickoff.
The world spun as I got up off the ground, it felt like someone had hit me in the back of the head with a sledge hammer. I knew the play had moved down the field but I could not find it. The seconds seemed to take years to pass me by. I think I spun in a circle three or four times to find the huddle forming around the goal line for the field goal attempt. I half jogged, half stumbled my to the huddle barely keeping myself on my feet. I put my hand in the dirt, and watched the ball sail through the uprights. I miraculously made it back to the sideline, where the trainer could see that I was struggling just to stand. She made me sit on the bench and put me
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