A 15-year-old Michigan student and football player suffered spine fractures after a rival player from another school jumped on top of him.
According to WSBT, the incident occurred on Thursday, September 18. At the time, the 15-year-old boy, playing for Lakeshore High School, was facing the Kalamazoo Central High School football team.
During the third quarter, however, everything changed. As seen in a video obtained by the outlet, shared by the 15-year-old’s mother, Courtney Mims, a Kalamazoo Central player wearing number 73 jumps on top of him.
“And I at first was like, is that my son? And as soon as it clicked that it was, I couldn’t be stopped. I had to go down there,” Mims told the outlet. “It was I’ve never felt anything like it. I’ve never been as upset or shaken up as I was over s