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Originally posted by HJ25
What's the worst injury you've seen? Have any of you officiated a game during which a player went into cardiac arrest or something similar? [/B]
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The two worst incidents that I had occurred in football games.
In my first year- many, many moons ago- in a high school varsity game, I noticed a player staggering around right after the final gun. The player fell down and lay completely still; an ambulance was called (there wasn't one there) and they took the kid away. The kid died the next day. It turns out that he got a severe concussion the week before in a game, was treated by his family doctor- but neither the kid nor the family doctor advised either his parents or his coaches. Iow, there was no way he shoulda been on the field. He musta got another shot during the game, because his autopsy showed a severe cerebral haemmorhage. And... that player was 2 years older than I was at that time. I had just turned 16.
A few years after that, I was doing a rec-type football game for players U19. A pass receiver got nailed right in front of his bench, did a complete flip and landed right on his head. Before we could get to him, and ignoring us hollering at him not to, one of his coaches came on the field, turned him over and removed his helmet. When we got there, the kid couldn't move and had no feeling from the neck down. They packed him away in an ambulance too, but it was too late. He ended up being a quadriplegic. I knew that kid fairly well too- he was a jerk but nobody deserves that.
In both case, there were no lawsuits involved, or anything related to one. It just wasn't thought of back then. If you played, you took your chances. Today? Shudder.....
In basketball, in games over the years I've seen broken arms, legs, noses, collarbones, etc. Knee injuries galore. I've had my own nose broken twice and some fingers broken twice also, as well as having to be stitched up once also(elbow over the eye on a jump ball).