I spent a big chunk of my Saturday watching college football games that were on TV since Tech didn’t play, and during one game there was a break to show Jahvid Best during the Cal game. I’m sure most of you have seen the video, but the fall actually makes me feel sick. I don’t want to post a link to the video because I don’t want to have to watch it again, but I guess I will to save you the time looking for it. He is thrown high up into the air, and lands right on his neck. That looks awful enough, but then the camera stay on him and his whole body stiffens up. It looks like he’s paralyzed. After being taken off the field on a stretcher, he goes to the hospital to find the only injury is a serious concussion. Nothing else. If you watch the video, that seems hard to believe, but he’s fine. Just a week of rest and he should be back. This really doesn’t seem possible to me, but I am really glad that he is okay because after seeing it I assumed to hear bad news. He is really lucky to only have that concussion. There’s a lot of debate going on right now with football and head injuries and how to know whether a player should come back so soon. I think it’s impossible to know unless you are a doctor. A lot of players just want to come back and play, usually their pride getting the best of them, and they don’t want to admit when they are not feeling well. I think, along with many other people, that only a medical doctor should be able to say whether or not someone is ready to play after having such an injury. Right now this isn’t the case, and I don’t see it changing soon, but it’s a nice idea to think about.

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