Alva Review-Courier -

Like most athletic endeavors, football is a sport played mostly by young people who are physically fit. That is especially true when the game is played at a professional level.

Consequently, almost always when a professional athlete has a medical issue during a game it is because of aggravating an old injury or experiencing a new one.

Thus, when Damar Hamlin of football’s Buffalo Bills suffered a heart attack during a game against the Cincinnati Bengals on Jan. 2, all players on both teams were in a state of shock!

But it had happened before, several years before any of the athletes playing th...