Lasting Impact (rebroadcast)

Reveal

The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX

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4.7 • 8.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

In Oregon, the concussion protocols that were supposed to keep high school athletes safe end up falling short for a star quarterback.

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0:00.0	From the Center for Investigative Reporting in PRX, this is Reveal.
0:04.6	I'm Al Etton.
0:07.6	For high school football players, the last few weeks of summer break are a time for getting
0:11.8	ready to kick off the new season.
0:14.3	All across the country, they're starting football practice.
0:17.2	So we're bringing back a show we did earlier this year about concussions and one state's
0:21.9	effort to protect kids from head injuries.
0:24.5	Our story begins in 2001 under the lights at a Friday night football game in Oregon.
0:33.2	An ambulance is racing from a small town to get to a hospital 150 miles away.
0:42.1	Inside is a high school football player named Max Conrad.
0:45.8	He's unconscious after taking a hit.
0:48.5	Following behind the ambulance is his dad Ralph.
0:51.2	The whole way he remembers pleading with God.
0:54.2	I told God I will never watch another boxing match.
0:58.8	I will never watch another high school football game.
1:01.4	If there's any way, take me, not Max.
1:04.7	I mean, I was bargaining.
1:06.7	Just bargaining.
1:08.9	Max played quarterback for the walled port fighting Irish.
1:12.0	And that night he'd been tackled hard in the first half.
1:15.2	The hit made him confused and punch drunk.
1:18.3	After the play, he wandered into the wrong huddle.
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