High School Football Tragedy

Damn. Thoughts and prayers to Wichita.

 

My main photographer at my first shop, who was a legend in our city, and alma mater got caught in the middle of something like this years ago (after I left). They won the state baseball title, and on his way out to shoot the celebration, our photog, who was about 70 and had some health and weight issues, collapsed, in full view of everyone. (Kinda spoiled the state title, to say the least). Turned out he had a stroke, and he died three weeks later without ever really regaining consciousness.
The holiday hoop and hockey tournaments the paper sponsors are now named after him. As the SE before me toasted him at his 65th birthday party a few years before, "Best friend a high school athlete ever had.

 

Re: High School Football Tragedy

Great news!

Just got an update from Wichita.

She has been upgraded to fair condition.

 

And some not so good news.

A kid in my son's freshman class, a football player on the freshman team, passed away Friday night. My son saw him at the football game that evening and that evening he collapsed when he got home and died before the paramedics could get there. A tear in the aorta was the cause, and my understanding (could be wrong here) that it is something that is not easily diagnosed. 14 years old.

Now I would classify this young man as more of an acquaintance than a friend of my son's, but it's a very sobering event when you have to face your mortality as a 14 year old young man.

 

Very sobering. Glad to hear the cheerleader is better, though.