A 12-year-old football player is in serious condition after being struck in the head via helmet-to-helmet contact during a game on Saturday, according to Lauderhill Fire Rescue. @kimberlyarchie@37919KJ@NFLObjectorshttps://t.co/hH9NHMzOp5
“Livingston Junior High School player Jeremiah Jefferson, 13, was paralyzed and hospitalized due to a head-on collision... “Jeremiah’s fifth vertebra in his neck was shattered instantaneously. He lost any ability to move from the chest down.” https://t.co/gUZdAs0WZc
Amateurism transforms children into unpaid laborers who are routinely exploited by an unregulated and violent industry.
We undertake this work in order to prevent unnecessary suffering.
Hand-to-hand activism can change minds.
Like Devin Shivers who quit tackle football at the age of 17. After learning the facts about brain injuries, Shivers knew it was time to call it quits. "My health is more important than just a game."
Seven years ago today, Kris & I received the devastating news that our beloved son #DerekSheely was mortally wounded playing football. Concussions are brain damage. Please honor Derek today by saying his name or telling a story about him. pic.twitter.com/FQxQryNNdH
2017 NORTH ANDOVER, MA. -- On 11/10/17 Gabe DeSouza taken from the field in an ambulance.
COLUMBUS, IN. -- Junior quarterback Trenton Kelley had to have his spleen removed. FAIRLESS HILLS, PA. -- Jared Troyano, 17, suffered a concussion on August 25th, 2017. His mother, Amy: "What happened to Jared was what I feared most."
OAKHURST, CA. -- Peter ‘PJ’ Kuzmitski, 4-foot-11, 110 pound 9th grader, lost his right leg below the knee after a horrible injury during a Sept. 27 football practice.
BROOMFIELD, CO. -- Sophomore, Cameron Shelly was temporarily paralyzed after suffering a spinal injury during football practice.
HILLSBOROUGH, NC -- Thys Oldenburg, 14, injured in a football game on 10/12 emerged from a coma on 11/20.
CHARLO, MONTANA: -- Nick Daugherty HS Sophomore “He went to the ICU with a football concussion. Two months later, he’s still out of school.”
ELDON, MO: -- Hunter Bushnell suffered a severe spinal injury in practice on 9/20/17 and is paralyzed from the chest down.
PITTSBORO, NC: -- Hillside High School football player Corey Mitchell, released from hospital.
GLASGOW, KY: -- Tanner Slagle was transported from the field on a backboard, into an ambulance.
MISHAWAKA, IN: -- Alex Fish taken from field on stretcher.
FORTUNA, CA: -- Bailey Foley’s football injury was suffered on 8/25/17. “It was more than a month before Foley could fully speak and even now his voice is soft and raspy. In hours of therapy a day, he’s relearning simple motor skills: how to brush his teeth, how to put on a shirt, how to walk.”
MONTGOMERY, AL: — On 10/24/17 C.J. Knight suffered a severe neck injury during practice and was airlifted to Children's Hospital in Birmingham where he underwent two surgeries. As of 11/2, C.J. was paralyzed from the chest down