Donald Parham Injury from TNF--One of Worst I've Seen

[Nextmanup]

 

 

 

This was one of the ugliest and scariest incidents I've ever seen in a game.

 

Parham pretty obviously never regained consciousness, even as they were wheeling him off the field after a sustained delay...with his hands convulsing nervously.

 

IMO, Buck and Aikman deliberately refrained from saying ANYTHING as the scene was already more than gruesome enough.  

 

 

 

 

[Bubba Gump]

Joe Buck is a complete jackass. He said maybe his hands were shaking because it was cold out for LA. They're in a stadium that is covered with open areas, but come on, how cold could it be in LA? And Parham was obviously still unconscious at the time. 

 

I'm just glad to hear he is stable. Being he was in that fencing posture after he hit his head is not a good sign. Hope like hell he makes a full recovery. Def some scary *****

 

Edited December 17, 2021 by Bubba Gump

[machine gun kelly]

I don’t know him, but pray he is ok.

[QCity]

2 hours ago, Bubba Gump said:

He said maybe his hands were shaking because it was cold out for LA. They're in a stadium that is covered with open areas, but come on, how cold could it be in LA?

I watched the game and I didn't hear this. What exactly did you hear?

[HOUSE]

I wish this kid the very best, pretty scary stuff

[JMF2006]

It looked innocent enough at first but his head bounced off the turf and you could clearly see he was unconscious.

 

That was a very serious concussion.

 

My prayers go out to him I hope he is ok

 

[CSBill]

Yeah, it doesn't look violent or like a hard hit, he's not hit but his head does hit the turf rather abruptly. Shows how sudden and unexpectedly an injury can happen. Prayers for him.

[strive_for_five_guy]

3 hours ago, Bubba Gump said:

Joe Buck is a complete jackass. He said maybe his hands were shaking because it was cold out for LA. They're in a stadium that is covered with open areas, but come on, how cold could it be in LA? And Parham was obviously still unconscious at the time. 

 

I'm just glad to hear he is stable. Being he was in that fencing posture after he hit his head is not a good sign. Hope like hell he makes a full recovery. Def some scary *****

 

Yeah, I don’t know who’s a bigger tool, Joe Buck or Chris Collinsworth…

[Giuseppe Tognarelli]

1 hour ago, QCity said:

I watched the game and I didn't hear this. What exactly did you hear?

You must have turned it off. It was after they showed him being wheeled away.

[colin]

awful.

 

anyone who's ever boxed (or kick boxed or some such) should know how dangerous a punch to the back of the head is.  There was a bout not too long a go where a young prospect took a lot of rabbit punches to the back of the head, he made it through the fight, but became quite disabled after the fight.  this boxer seems to have made some progress, but i doubt he will be symptom free at any point.

 

hope this guy gets better (evidently, there is a better chance to recover from one big hit than from many many accumulated hits).  and i know it was likely a fluke, but make sure your kids learn to tuck their heads when they go down, no matter what sport or activity the partake in.  

[otagoyellow]

Terrifying to see "the fencing response." From Wiki: 

 

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In simpler terms, the shock of the trauma manually activates the nerves that control the muscle groups responsible for raising the arm. This is similar to the reflexive extension of the arm when falling down (“breaking a fall”).

 

Praying for the best here. 

[Sharky7337]

You never saw the Kevin Everett injury in 2007?

[TheyCallMeAndy]

The worst injuries in the NFL are often the least dramatic ones. 

[Greg S]

Just hope he is OK and can get his health back 100%. You hate to see anyone get hurt.

[NoSaint]

20 minutes ago, Sharky7337 said:

You never saw the Kevin Everett injury in 2007?

It was 15 years ago. We are starting to get into the phase where there will be folks here that were kids and didn’t really know that play. 

[BarleyNY]

1 hour ago, colin said:

awful.

 

anyone who's ever boxed (or kick boxed or some such) should know how dangerous a punch to the back of the head is.  There was a bout not too long a go where a young prospect took a lot of rabbit punches to the back of the head, he made it through the fight, but became quite disabled after the fight.  this boxer seems to have made some progress, but i doubt he will be symptom free at any point.

 

hope this guy gets better (evidently, there is a better chance to recover from one big hit than from many many accumulated hits).  and i know it was likely a fluke, but make sure your kids learn to tuck their heads when they go down, no matter what sport or activity the partake in.  

A long time ago I fought full contact TKD.  Headgear was required, but at Nationals I saw a few fighters with just a pad that covered the backs of their heads, not the usual full head, open-faced ones like everyone else wore.  It was explained to me that when people got knocked down or fell backwards they’d sometimes hit the backs of their heads - at times even falling outside the mat area (which wasn’t very thick anyway) onto the concrete floor.  That was the worst concussion issue in a sport where kicking people in the head was the main goal.  That’s how dangerous hitting the back of your head is. 

[Captain Hindsight]

When the only update came late in the 3rd Q and it was he is stable, I became very very worried.

 

I said to my wife, usually you get like "his arms and legs are moving" but we didnt even get that. Very scary

[Pete]

48 minutes ago, Sharky7337 said:

You never saw the Kevin Everett injury in 2007?

or the Napolean McCallum?  Daryl Stingley? 

 

Ive seen probably 100 worse injuries watching football.

 

That looked benign.  But like its been stated, a hit to back of head is dangerous.  And that was scary.  Prayers for Parham

[Lieutenant Aldo Raine]

51 minutes ago, TheyCallMeAndy said:

The worst injuries in the NFL are often the least dramatic ones. 

 

Right - remember Bo Jackson.

[T master]

I was watching the game and saw that play but for the life of me i couldn't figure out what he did i thought at first he had hurt his elbow the way he landed and even during the replay it didn't look bad at all i have seen a lot worse landings than that watching the NFL .

 

I hope he is alright first and foremost i just wonder if something may have happened earlier on a hit or fall that could have started the injury but then that fall just finished it because as i said it didn't look as if it was that bad of a fall matter of fact it looked like he landed on his shoulder .