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Old 01-04-2023, 11:28 PM
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Originally Posted by MrLonzo View Post
Why is this one so special? Just wondering…
People have life threatening events on a daily basis, but this was on a National TV broadcast where over 21 million people witnessed it happen live.

I don't know about you, but I think most people have never witnessed someone on live TV collapsing due to cardiac arrest and requiring CPR/defibrillation just for the chance that the person might have a chance of being alive.

I was one of the many people watching live with a crowd of people at a local bar in TV and just seeing the dozens of players on the field crying and extremely distraught, likely to deal with PTSD in the future was something very hard to watch.