Just watched it. Powerful.
It's more so unrelated but the aikman story fukked me up a lil bit b/c while i never played football in high school I did hoop for my HS squad and had a freak accident my sophmore year where i bit on a pump fake and was undercut/clipped/whatever (i guess the dude tried to duck under me like i would just soar over him or some shyt) and I end up flippin over and crashin on my head.
Now I don't remember biting on the pump fake, I don't remember falling. I dont remember there even being a 2nd half. All I remember was me sitting on the bench at halftime lookin at some of my teammates forming a layup line.. and then the next thing I can recall is being on my back lookin up at a bright ass light and goin into a chamber (CT Scan).. Felt like i was dreaming. Then next thing i recall, i'm in a hospital bed with no one but my dad in a chair pulled up next to me.
And the aikman thing fukked me up because I kept on asking my dad what time it was. And he would answer me. I would say ok... but like 2 minutes later, I would ask him that exact same question again and again. Where are we? Ok. What time is it? Ok. Um.. where are we? Ok, cool. Hey dad, what time is it?? And at some point its like i had a sense of de ja vu, like, didnt i just ask him that?? Why do i keep on asking him that?? But wait, what time IS it tho?
So then i'm walkin out the hospital and into the car but it was like a dream sequence and I still have no memory of what happened between halftime and the CT scan/being at the hospital with my dad.
But everyone told me that I was "awake" the whole time. That after the fall, blood was running down both nostrils but I kept on muttering to everybody or to myself that "it's all good" (or just some phrase i was known to say back then). that i was able to get up and walk/be escorted to the locker room to get my stuff and whatever else.. but i just couldn't remember any of it or how i made it to the hospital, etc. And i had a big ass lump in the back of my head for days that scared the shyt outta me too
So i really couldn't imagine having something like that occur 3, 4, 5, 7 times.. not to mention the countless non-concussion hits that would occur day to day and week to week for those who do go the football route