to experiences you have. in sports we have collective experiences. clay travis spoke of hank gathers i spent time talking to my sons about hank gathers. i mentioned earlier a famous soccer player christian erickson who was administered cpr and has recovered and is in fact playing the game today. this is different because there was a collision involved here. not a particularly uniquely violent collision, but yet another variable in this equation right away but now again it s unique because we normally see spinal or head injuries when it comes to violence in football, not something that requires cpr. and i told you that one of my first pieces i ever worked on for espn on outside the lines was on myocardial contusion and brian kill me i think very well explained this earlier a heightened comodio cortis a blunt acute trauma to the chest that can disrupt the rhythm of the heart. it s very rare. happens in baseball and lacrosse
for espn and outside the line was on myocardial contusion, and we don t know. i don t know if that s what happened with them are jason, but it s certainly true in lacrosse or baseball that there. although rare, there are instances of athletes taking a hit to the chest. and it s suddenly disrupting the rhythm and effectiveness of the heart tomorrow. him hamlin s hit tonight really, honestly, for any football fan looked like nothing at all out of the ordinary, not particularly violent, not particularly dangerous and to see him get up is also not something you normally see when you see a catastrophic injury, so it s just shocking. well none of us know exactly what happened. i heard clay. you know, it s interesting sports is just such a collective consciousness. for all of us. it s our memory. it s our nostalgia. we go through these things together. i was in the car with my son s on the way home from the family christmas. listening to this on the radio, and i was explaining to my sons. the
0 unfortunately, given the circumstances, jason obviously not used to coming on to talk about this like a lot of people out there. i mean, this was a really big game for people out there who are not nfl fans bills being goals monday night football. huge game to really excellent franchises. having very good season like a lot of people. i was sitting down watching this game coming right out of the rose bowl. it s a big day for college football and the nfl and, uh, you know, a really exciting start. and then this incident which happens and for those of us who have watched football, uh, for our whole lives are played, coached it. you see players get hurt, but this just what and felt different than what usually happens and so everybody watching it in real time, uh, knew that it was very serious and obviously it is. it is a heart wrenching moment for foreign of health and for everyone out there, and certainly for this young man and his family. yeah the speed and veracity of what happens in t