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seiferguy posted:Scott Van Pelt said he's in critical condition in the hospital. So, he's still alive. Hoping for the best but my god I think that this can mean a lot of bad things too
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Winkie01 posted:Here is a guy about to be fired. Yes, do it now
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Gadzuko posted:Yeah nobody is going to replay that ever again unless he recovers. There is a chance you are watching someone die in that footage That's how I felt in real time when he collapsed, I immediately texted my friend that was watching and my parents and my dad said "holy poo poo, I don't think that guy is gonna be ok" Not religious but I'm praying and hoping my rear end off.
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Just give me a tweet that he's conscious again. Even if he needs assistance to keep stuff running just tell me he's there. This
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FistEnergy posted:What a horrible turn of events. Really hope he pulls through. At least a team of medical professionals was there to respond almost instantly. This is the silver lining of this, if there is any. I think I remember from the Ryan Shazier injury that they were able to use some sort of brain stem/core coolant that was considered essentially inaccessible except for this situation. Hopefully it prevented the worst outcome and Hamlin makes it through.
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RestingB1tchFace posted:Over 600k now. I'm in, least I can do
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fartknocker posted:Same. Almost $700K now... gently caress yea, let's loving goooooooooo
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Nice work goons, let's keep pushing the GFM if you can!
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Professor Funk posted:No more updates tonight. Fair enough I mean it sounds like there's not much we'd be able to find out if he's in a medically induced coma.
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Literally just cracked 1 million in his GFM as I refreshed!
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fartknocker posted:It's over $1 million now. 
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Jan 3, 2023 05:38
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Mooseontheloose posted:I feel like ESPN just gave a generation of people PTSD tonight. Mostly Suzy Kolber with her eulogy-esque cut ins from commercial breaks. At least 2 times I thought she was breaking the fact that he had died.
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Crazy Ted posted:So possibly two lives saved tonight then Oooof Sad, but true.
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surf rock posted:It's honestly incredible that there isn't an injury on most plays. Maybe it'll turn out that this was an underlying condition or whatever but football is such a ridiculous violent sport; I don't know how human bodies survive it. It makes me think back to when we used to play tackle football on Thanksgiving turkeybowl. I was ~19 back from college and 6'3 210, so naturally running back  I steamrolled over a guy I didn't know, and next series he dropped his shoulder into my sternum (not even trying to tackle) and cracked it. I'd imagine it was way worse looking than what we saw tonight, because he lined up and leapt into me. I've rubbed that spot on my chest a couple times throughout this ordeal this evening, not gonna lie.
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In happier news, according to my projections, Damar Hamlin's Go Fund Me will reach 10 million in the next few hours. E: currently 1.2M
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abelwingnut posted:i mean...yea, i don't have a good solution for this. no one does. what i know is it is not reasonable to have the bills or bengals play in five days. that's got to be the one criterion they have to make sure of. Honestly, just shooting from the hip and not thinking things through really, but due to the severity of this injury and this being a first, I think this makes really good sense. An added bye of sorts. "Logistics" and such, but man...unenviable spot, to be sure.
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BlindSite posted:They should just play the game on line wednesday and flex both teams into an MNF double header or something. Either that or these two teams both effectively take a tie. You can't skip a week of football. or push back a playoff schedule. You're probably right but the human in me says that a lot of players who, up until this point maybe hadn't really seen an injury that actually questioned mortality, might be having second thoughts about suiting up. We see concussions and stuff multiple times every weekend and it's gross how we've normalized them as just part of the game, like an ankle sprain, but this was far, far different.
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Hopefully whatever the league decides, they let Skip know first because this is really, really serious stuff, and I need to know what he thinks about it.
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BlindSite posted:I'm not denying that this situation is different and I'm not trying to handwave what Hamlin is going through - by any means, but the league doesn't and won't just stop. I'm not talking about whats right or what I would do. I'm just talking about what the league may do. Yea I totally get that and you're right. The machine keeps rolling.
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$1.45m for the GFM! Dang! It doubled since I donated! Crazy!
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wandler20 posted:So apparently that toy drive was from 2020. Wonder what happens here. Underprivileged and underserved kids get toys, in one way or another.
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Just do HORSE with the field goal kickers winner get the W.
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pyrotek posted:Burrow vs. Allen in that Dr. Pepper scholarship game. It's a tie! They both win!
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Lifespan posted:Holy poo poo, $2.56m! 1000x the goal. So loving awesome. https://www.gofundme.com/f/mxksc-the-chasing-ms-foundation-community-toy-drive It's catching loving fire. In the span of you posting this til me writing this it jumped to almost 2.7m
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YOLOsubmarine posted:Huge paragraph is a stretch. He says the NFL must be considering cancelling, wonders how they can do that given the complications, then says it ultimately doesn’t matter. So then why post it since it doesn't matter? YOLOsubmarine posted:It was posted when nobody knew what was going to happen, whether the game was going to be restarted, and plenty of people were wondering the same thing including some on the thread here. Would the NFL actually dare to postpone or cancel the game? And most decent people at that time were in universal agreement that none of that poo poo mattered at that moment and was, for all intents and purposes, irrelevant. At the time that it happened, being in this thread and the GDT thread, NO one was openly opining about the game, when it would be played, how it would be played, except for that it didn't matter. Except for Skip, who immediately wondered these things, and just had to give the first take. It was heartless, poorly worded, and reflective of his overall callousness and beady-eyed rear end in a top hat approach to most things and he rightfully got called out for it. It has nothing to do with comprehension and everything to do with just being a decent human.
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Ches Neckbeard posted:All we know for certain is critical condition in the ICU after cardiac arrest. And 5 million extra reasons for him to smile after he recovers.
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Techno Remix posted:Why does it feel so weird to be so affected by this? Like, I’ve seen people get hurt before, even pretty badly, but this is really sticking in my mind and I can’t get it out. I think in general we've become numb to most injuries, unfortunately, up to and including broken necks. I had to walk away from football for a while after I saw Jahvid Best in college suffer a nasty concussion and his body locked up in a super unnatural position. It made me want to vomit. I think that collectively, we watch and know it's a dangerous sport replete with vicious injuries, but we never seriously consider death to be a possibiity- we know it is, and I think we've all worried at some point that we may watch the game where it happens (because we all know it will, at some point) but the realization last night that that very well could have been it shakes you to your core and, at least in my case, makes me think about taking a break again because the benefits (for me) of watching don't outweigh how I felt and what I saw last night, regardless of how rare.
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Cartoon Man posted:Also, we all like Football. Like, really really really like football. The fact that a football player can die from a normal football hit is mega disturbing and most of us have never had to confront that reality before. Exactly this.
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I want to believe in the hope that the uncle is sharing but I also understand that literally anything that they hear can and will be interpreted in the most positive way possible and I think that, as much as we want to believe, it's also probably mentally healthy to not allow ourselves to emotionally swing with whatever bits and pieces we get without getting a clearer picture from medical professionals. C'mon Damar! 
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Proteus Jones posted:The GoFundMe is about $65K shy of $6M. Almost 200,000 people have donated. It's crazy to think that it has almost 10x'd just from the time that some of us found it...after it had already 300x'd.
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mllaneza posted:In my experience 80% of chiropractors are woo idiots or just want you to come in twice a week for an adjustment indefinitely. These are the guys that will paralyze you by loving up a neck adjustment. The other 20% know how your bones are supposed to fit together, and why your muscles are in extreme pain when they don't. They mix massage therapy, physical therapy, radiology, and other specialists to figure out why you're in pain and fix it. I was always skeptical of the profession as well, having had the former. Then I had an ex who got in a ski accident, could barely walk, the doctor's answers were painkillers and back surgery, and she met a chiro thru a friend of a friend that was the latter. Now she walks pain free and doesn't have to go in anymore either for "maintenance" or whatever other term they use to try and get you in all the time.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Not true. Old people who have seen dentists all their lives don't get full plate dentures anymore. Dentures used to be so common that denture cream and denture cleaners were advertised on TV. Can confirm I haven't seen a Polydent denture cleaner "look, I just drop my dentures in and it fizzes!" commercial since like 1992.
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Knocking on almost 48hrs without any sort of "real" news or updates. Is this fairly standard? I think people were mentioning that we likely wouldn't know much for at least a few days. I just hope that this isn't a situation where no news is bad news 
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Asproigerosis posted:I work in health care, I've watched people die, watched them run the code into futility and call it. Still gets me gucked up, even with years of seeing the brutal horrors of human frailty. I would not be surprised if this was a very significantly traumatic experience for not only the bills and Bengals, but the league at large. I certainly hope the NFL is offering counseling services to every player. All of the games this weekend are going to be difficult for players. I can't remember if it was Clark of Booger or maybe Suzy but I feel like I remember someone saying this pretty soon after and they were spot on. Seriously though, that SVP and Clark broadcast is something I'll never forget.
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Chief McHeath posted:Working where there are lots of AEDs and a very real chance of needing to use one any given day will make you look at those things with a tremendous amount of respect and a burning hope that you never do have to use it. God, I can absolutely imagine.
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Lifespan posted:This is for real. I'm actually really thankful and glad that the players and staff walled up around him so there isn't more/detailed video of it.
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