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[update] WNY high school player dies from helmet-to-helmet hit


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http://buffalo.ynn.c...y-hurt-in-game/

 

Keep this kid and his family in your thoughts and prayers, Bills fans. It does not look good for him at present.

 

Reminds me that this is a rough sport that we enjoy, and it's incumbent upon coaches and families to teach these guys that proper tackling doesn't need to involve the use of your helmet.

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RIP. Just an awful, terrible situation.

 

 

As a football coach I saw two kids get taken away in ambulances last season for neck injuries. It's such a violent game, you can't stress enough how important it is to keep your head up.

 

i cant even imagine. recently saw an outside the lines or something of the sort on kids that got catastrophic injuries in HS and where they are now and it was definitely a major downer about the state of care that some of the kids end up getting. the risk/reward ratio for these kids playing football at a youth level was depressing to say the least.

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This just makes my heart sink...so sad.

 

All these injuries remind me of how lucky I was when I played...there was one collision in particular where it really could have been ugly.

 

I feel so bad for the parents and family/friends...

 

RIP, young man

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  • 4 weeks later...

This whole thing leaves so many questions. First they cancelled the season, and then Keith McShea had a follow up article about it because a lot of people thought they shouldn't have. I thought it should be up to the players. It seemed McShea thought so, too, but his article never got an answer to what the players thought.

 

Then, the whole "cause" is put into question. All along it was said that it was a helmet to helmet hit. But, then Portville (the opposing team and the home team) - their head coach watched the game film over and over and saw no such hit.........But, he won't give the game film to McShea or the News to take a look. It's kind of strange how the whole thing unfolded:

 

http://www.buffalonews.com/columns/keith-mcshea/game-film-reveals-no-answers-to-janes-death-20131003

 

Then, they have a big article this week about the 6 players in WNY football history who have died. Now they've tempered it down to "a hit" and say that it's up to his parents whether they want to release the results of the autopsy because he was under 18:

 

http://www.buffalonews.com/sports/high-schools/when-football-is-life-and-death-20131008

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