I'm sure there must've been football players from my school who went on to have TBI and other health problems, but the most horrifying injury I ever actually witnessed in high school was a cheerleader getting her face smashed in by a girl falling on herhttps://twitter.com/TheAtlantic/status/1220060615290605571 …
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It was one of those split second decisions too A flyer (the girl they throw up into the air for the routine) was falling wrong and going to miss the people catching her The other girl dove in to break her fall "It was my nose or her spine", she said to me later
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She said it looked worse than it was, which is good because it looked and sounded horrible Loud crack, blood gushing everywhere, people screaming BY FAR more dramatic and heroic than anything that ever happened in a football game
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Anyway cheerleading is the real shit man
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I ended up visiting her in the hospital and her fellow cheerleaders didn't because of high school drama, which I thought was pretty cold after she saved someone's life But the full story of our unlikely friendship is beyond the scope of this thread
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