Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Chronicle of a Death Foretold

NPR reports on a study from Germany about the stress die-hard sports fans deal with on game day. Gerhard Steinbeck finds that "cardiac emergencies" such as "heart attacks, chest pain and major heart-rhythm disturbances" increase on game days.

2 comments:

  1. Your Vikings fanbase already knew this, ha, but those Brett Favre covers were questionable choices:

    http://mcbias.blogspot.com/2008/01/bloggolalia-magazine-cover-bias.html

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  2. Anonymous12:17 PM

    Those cardiac emergencies may also be bratwurst-related...

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