Long Island High School Football Player Dies After On-Field Collision: Officials

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75. I was an athletic kid and young adult and there isn't a sport I played I didn't get hurt in

It's the nature of sports...

When I was a kid I took Judo and at my first tournament watched a teen-ager get his neck broken because the throw went wrong. Instead of landing on his back, his landed on his neck. I had the misfortune of having a kid throw me wrong once and his knee came down on my throat--I thought I was never going to breath again.

From playing baseball/softball at an early age until I was 15, I developed arthritic knees and was told by an orthopedist if I wanted to continue to play, to find a new position. So I did and in my early 20's, playing co-ed softball, ended up with a leg that was broken in 4 places from a bad slide (a guy slide into me at 3rd base hoping to take me out... he did, for 7 months--but I still got the bastard out). I also sustained numerous jammed fingers and a couple of broken fingers and bruises from being hit with the ball.

I took up indoor soccer after softball--I could never play again after the leg breaking incident, I was too skittish on the field. I was a goalie in soccer and ended up with jammed fingers and a soccer slide took me out of one game when the woman slid into my "bad" leg that was broken during softball.

I also took up bike riding for a while until a bad wreck caused a severe road rash.

I feel bad for this kids' family but injuries are part and parcel with all sports not just football.