BBC NEWS | Health | Heart risk of watching football

Writing in the New England Journal of Medicine, the researcher said: "Apparently, of prime importance for triggering a stress-induced event is not the outcome of a game - a win or a loss - but rather the intense strain and excitement experienced during the viewing of a dramatic match, such as one with a penalty shoot-out."

Researchers studied the effects on German fans of watching their home team compete in the 2006 World Cup finals.

Six of the seven games in which the German team participated were associated with an increase in the number of cardiac emergencies.

The largest number occurred during a June 30 quarter-final in which Germany defeated Argentina in a dramatic penalty shoot-out.

The next game, Germany's semi-final loss to Italy, produced almost as many heart attacks.

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Awe shoot, you were talking about this game:


I thought you were addressing this game

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Best Regards,
JW

In England we had a different problem.

An increased number of televisions requiring new screens.

how wonder how much Bier had been consumed ?

And of course:

Funeral company offers football-shaped urn | Oddly Enough | Reuters

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It may very well be proportional to the amount of "money" bet on the outcome. I don't bet on sports, (maybe the dog/horse track)(once in a blue moon), but I know many that do.
Play-offs are the last chance to get even-hit that long shot-or dig that hole so deep you'll never get out.

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Morbius, Morbius! Something is approaching from the Southwest. It is now quite close.

Chesterfield student collapses, dies during softball practice | NBC12 | Virginia News

A young woman just died last week here during softball practice. Thomas Dale was my school. Thursday, the day it happened, was really the first hot day we've had here.
Upper 80s.

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