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This has happened in the past a few times and it was so rare that it made national news and was talked about for decades after in the case of reggie lewis. A player, chris bosh, was forced to medically retire when he was a top 15 player for blood clots.

But at most this happened in the NBA once a decade. It will be interesting to see what happens going forward if they were really injected.

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Jiri Fisher was a nhl player and went into cardiac arrest in the 90s or early 2000s as well. But that's it. Basically a handful of athletes over decades. Now that it's 2020/2021 it's a regular occurrence

[–] [deleted] • 4 pts

40???? OK we need a list asap brother, can you do it?

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

Yeah i have a feeling that number is being pulled out of thin air.

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Hey, 83.5% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

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That's not true 36.8% of the time.

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My friend shit himself in the starting blocks in a track meet once. Thought it was a fart.

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It's global warming, you Reich-wing conspiracy theorist

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At the pro level, this is new. I don't remember people having cardiac arrests on their sports field during a game. Amateur, that's a different beast because there's about 300 kids that start football practice in high school and die from some unknown heart condition or dehydration. I don't recall where I got the 300 number from, but it was in a story where a local high school football player dropped dead on the practice field from more than a decade ago.

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The lists I can find (wikipedia unfortunately) suggests there are a decent number of athletes that die on the field (or within short order of injuries received on field,) and the Youth Sports Safety Alliance suggests are are maybe (average) 50 deaths a year of <18yo players. Statistics go back to the turn of last century for some things.

I can't find any evidence that so many have died all at once. That's the interesting part about this data point.

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That was a little nigger kid he took a really big hit to the head not long before he died.

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I coached HS football for years. We're talking a handful of kids per year with most of it from heat exhaustion. Being dehydrated and going into heat stroke does give you a heart attack. It does happen though, one kid from the jv level after our game almost died. He fell on the football on his chest with some fat linemen on top and he was out after that. Not sure if that did it or not. I coached a kid with tachycardia and needed surgery. Nothing like this though, the numbers will go up too.

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Yet why not anyone in Congress?

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not mandatory for any law makers

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I was once at a polo match where one of the horses collapsed and died from a hear attack because the spoiled rich boy ridding her ran her to death so he could score.

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no. but. people will listen to anything. at least 65% of them. The rest of us hear you.

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reggie lewis, 1993, cocaine

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i've seen a boxer stop a match shouting hol up!!! i gotta go shit!!! then ran off for 20 minutes while the other guy was standing there like wtf?!?!

guy came back and basically threw the match when it resumed, guess he felt bad or something.

otherwise never seen anything worse than a typical injury.

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I know there was a hockey player that had a heart attack on the ice once.

Found it,

>Less than seven minutes into an NHL game between the Columbus Blue Jackets and the Dallas Stars, Rich Peverley of the Stars was sitting on the bench waiting to return to the ice when his heart stopped beating. He was in cardiac arrest.

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There was a Blues player that did the same thing against the Ducks in Anaheim.

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Jay Bouwmeester. I forget about that one. I remember being pissed that the team/league bowed to the LGBTQ/blm mobs & coupled with the hacked up season I just wasn't paying much attention to the NHL. I honestly probably watch the Russian KHL more often these days.

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They were going to take him to the hospital where my wife works. They changed course shortly after leaving the rink and went to a much better hospital.

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