Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for November 20, 2014
November 19, 2014
November 21, 2014
Transcript:
Player: *wheeze!* Cough! Cough! Duke: While we're all here, I'd like to take the opportunity to comment further on Redfern's inflammatory prose... Player: Unhhh.... Duke: It is a sorry state of affairs when a political reporter is sent to cover football, a subject he is clearly unequipped to comment on! Player: Unhh... Arrgh! Duke: Obviously, in football people get hurt! But it is the risk of injury that makes the game great! It is the courage of athletes as they... [Player passes out] Eddie, will you settle down? This is important.
BE THIS GUY about 10 years ago
I think, your player just went into cardiac arrest.
pelican47 about 10 years ago
And to think this is a flashback to 1978.
David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace about 10 years ago
a thousand more beating down the door wanting to take his placehope all over their facethe only path they knowto the good life here below
Defective Premium Member about 10 years ago
Redfern? Isn’t that Jeff’s surname? And his father was a reporter, too.
montessoriteacher about 10 years ago
Yes, it is Jeff, I would think.
summerdog86 about 10 years ago
“Eddie, would you please wait until I’m finished here before you pass out again?”
montessoriteacher about 10 years ago
I’m surprised tbi isn’t being talked about. A ruling just came out on that and it says players can’t be compensated until after death, when diagnosis is confirmed, such as the family of jovan belcher, former kc chief who killed his girlfriend and himself a few years ago right before practice at arrowhead stadium in kc.
Dragoncat about 10 years ago
Speaking of “sorry state”…