FIRST WORD
It was just a football play. He was taking on a block and it wasn’t anything malicious or dirty or anything like that. Just an unfortunate situation.”
Rod Reed, coach of Tennessee State, according to The (Nashville) Tennessean, on the hit against Vanderbilt on Saturday that sent middle linebacker Christion Abercrombie to the hospital with a serious head injury. The Atlanta native had emergency surgery. Reed said Sunday that Abercrombie is still in “very critical condition.”