Pigskin Pickem Thread, Week 17

12-29-2022

[dfwgator]

I remember Chuck Hughes collapsing on the field back in 1971, and the image of Butkus standing over him.

I hate that this makes me think of it.

[mware]

The ambulance is off the field.

[Mama Shawna]

This just may be the event that causes a MASS awakening. There are already many cracks in the dam. What an amazing and terrifying world we live in these days.

[mware]

Going to continue the game???Wrong, very wrong.

[cherry]

really it should just be called off....sorry fans....but how can you expect these guys to play a game when a team mate might have just left this world....

[dfwgator]

When Chuck Hughes collapsed, that was with about a minute left in the game, I think they continued until the end.

[Fury]

Re: 98 - you have NO idea what the cause is. Other than he took a hard hit to the chest.

[Political Junkie Too]

I hope that ABC/ESPN isn't pressuring the teams to keep playing for the revenue commitments.

They have to call the game. Either a double-forfeit or reschedule for Friday.

-PJ

[mware]

Temporarily suspended.

[dfwgator]

Game temporarily suspended.

[Fury]

Re: 95 - concur. That can cause problems. Lacrosse players can also be susceptible to such injuries if hit with a ball in that area.

[Political Junkie Too]

It wasn't an unusual hit. I think they know something is wrong.

I hope they both agree to end the game. Let the entire league figure out how to score this later. Give the rest of the teams a voice in how to proceed.

-PJ

[ez]

Reschedule forThursday night.

[mware]

One of broadcasters said they were giving him oxygen. If true wouldn’t he have to be breathing on his own

[the OlLine Rebel]

This man took an upper cut to the chin. At least from the one replay shown. I fear his block got knocked of. I don’t think it was chest as someone else posits.

It had nothing to do with vaxes. The man was clearly hit badly. Direct cause of injury.

[mware]

I doubt they show a replay but it didn’t look like a bad hit and he jumped right up and then went backward legs not even bending. Like a log falling over.

[dfwgator]

If you get any kind of trauma in the chest area when your heart is in between a beat, it can lead to an arrythmia. I’ve heard of it happening to a baseball player when they got hit by a pitch in the chest, it’s literally a ‘one in a million’ shot, but it does happen.

[Political Junkie Too]

He got up, took a step, and then collapsed. I don't think he "got his block knocked off," if you're suggesting that he broke his neck in that hit.

-PJ

[dfwgator]

They said they were administering CPR, but I certainly hope they had a defibrillator there, if my theory about arrythmia is true.

[ez]

If they were giving CPR as they are saying on MNF, then his heart was stopped.