Is the end of football coming? This doctor says it can’t come fast enough.

Evan Murray was a 17-year-old high school senior, honor student, and three-sport athlete who died recently as a direct result of injuries sustained playing quarterback for his school football team.  On the last play of his life, he got drilled by a defender with a clean hit to the midsection.  He gathered himself, rose, and walked off the field on his own.  Shortly thereafter, however, he collapsed on the sideline and the on-site ambulance transported him to the hospital.  It’s unclear what happened next, whether he died en route to the hospital or in the ER or during emergency surgery.  He died, though.  That much is true.  The 17 year old boy died playing a game on a Friday night in his hometown under the lights in front of friends and family. The worst part is that Evan Murray was not an anomaly.  In the past three weeks, three high school football players have died from football related injuries.  Ben Hamm was a 16-year-old kid from Oklahoma, who collapsed after a tackle.  The impact of the hit caused significant intracranial bleeding.  And despite the best efforts of local neurosurgeons, he was unable to be saved.  Before that, Tyrell Cameron, a 16-year-old from Louisiana, broke his neck covering a punt and died on the field from asphyxiation.  Three deaths in three weeks.  Three teenagers. Every year 12 boys and young men die playing high school or college football.  Doesn’t sound like a lot, I guess, in the grand scheme of things.  More teen...
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