College football player from Atlanta in critical condition with head injury

[Calista241]

Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution

An Atlanta native and Tennessee State football player is in critical condition after he suffered a head injury in Saturday’s game against Vanderbilt.

Christion Abercrombie, a sophomore linebacker who played at Westlake High School in south Fulton County, was rushed to Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville for emergency surgery, the Tennessean newspaper reported. He was injured in the second quarter.

Tennessee State coach Rod Reed didn’t know the exact time of Abercrombie’s injury.

“It was right before the half,” Reed told the Tennessean. “He came to the sideline and just kind of collapsed there.”

Read more: https://www.ajc.com/news/local/college-football-player-from-atlanta-critical-condition-with-head-injury/a6keuTCDuKTOUDyS2u5jFM/

[Brainstormy]

1. very sad

Fortunately, I've survived the fears of children and grandchildren playing this barbaric game.

[magicarpet]

2. Macho Alpha Toxic Masculinity.

[Fred Sanders]

3. Every Sunday a thousand warriors/men bang heads and are permanently brain damaged...go Steelers!

But are you not entertained!?

[BeyondGeography]

4. No worries man

It’s not my kids.

Our old national pastime didn’t cause brain damage. The new one does. Got a problem with that?

[pangaia]

5. And EVERY position took a brain to play it.

[DeminPennswoods]

6. Was this the kid who had his head bent backward while

making a tackle? If so, I saw it on TV replay. It was awful to watch and I hope this young man can recover.

This particular play really had nothing to do with brain injury and everything to do with the awkward position both players got into causing the tacklers head and neck to be bent back.

[iluvtennis]

7. Just awful. Sending good karma that he pulls through this.