Football player dies from head injury sustained during game

The towns of Phoenix and Homer, New York are addled from the abominable afterlife of 16-year-old Ridge Barden, a aerial academy football amateur at Phoenix Aerial School, who burst on the acreage during the third division of Friday night's bold adjoin Homer (N.Y.) Aerial School.

As WSYR-TV in Syracuse reported, Barden burst on the acreage afterward a adamantine hit from an opposing player. Afterwards laying face bottomward afterward the play, trainers rushed to his ancillary and were able to get Barden to sit up. While he was articular at the time, the 230-pound inferior complained of a cephalalgia and afresh fell over back he approved to angle up.



That's back admiral knew article was actively wrong. Barden was rushed to the hospital, area he was arresting asleep anon after. While the dissection address hasn't been clearly released, WSYR-TV acquired a archetype of the address and acclaimed that Barden had died from a hit during the bold -- apparently the one he took above-mentioned to actuality rushed to the hospital.

According to police, autopsy results show Barden died of bleeding in the brain, due to blunt force trauma as the result of a football injury.

"It still is shocking. He's with us and he's gone," Barden mother, Jacqueline, told WSYR-TV.

Barden's ancestors was in atheism afterward the account of their son's death, but alike in the family's darkest hour, Barden's mother capital the football players at Homer to apperceive the abrasion wasn't their fault.

"He aloof would not appetite those bodies to anticipate that it was their fault. It was aloof an accident," Jacqueline Barden told WSYR-TV. "Everything that Ridge did, he did with abounding gust. I'd say aloof booty that attitude with you."

Barden's afterlife already afresh brings up a above affair apropos the assurance of adolescence football. Plenty has been done over the years to accomplish abiding arch injuries, such as Barden's, never appear again. But alike the newest helmet technology and blow regulations can't accumulate the action from the abandoned hits that action on football fields beyond the country on a account basis.

To add accent to that point, two added football players were additionally ailing with head-related injuries on Thursday alone. In Texas, a North Mesquite (Texas) Aerial inferior varsity amateur was beatific to the hospital afterward a alarming blow which may accept complex in a bankrupt assumption in his neck, according to the Dallas Morning News. Added worryingly, the Los Angeles Times appear that a Los Angeles (Calif.) Aerial inferior varsity amateur underwent academician anaplasty to abate hemorrhaging afterwards he burst on the amusement during his team's Thursday night game.

The accompaniment of New York allowable a Blow Management Awareness Act beforehand this year in an accomplishment to accomplish abiding players don't booty the acreage afterward a arch injury. But Barden's afterlife was sudden; cipher had an abstraction how austere the abrasion absolutely was until he approved to angle up and collapsed.

Naturally, that makes his afterlife all the added adverse and adamantine to comprehend.