This true, you could die doing a crossword puzzle. Especially if your on a bus. Lots of bus crashes lately.
I guess from my experience, maybe I was lucky, I didn't seen major injuries on the field. Maybe a broken arm, wrist, finger, toe, tib-fib. The torn ACL was the major injury in football. I never saw shattered ankles, compound fractures (period), broken backs, blacked out combative riders. I cant ever remember hearing about Tommy needing a titanium rod put in his body ever in football. I have been running BC about as many years as I played football now, and there isn't a comparison between the two. I have seen way more carnage in this stage of my life. You can talk hypothetically all you want, but the reality of the squad running from a football game just isn't there. It has a lower occurrence rate.
Again anything can happen, and I'm not saying people don't get paralyzed or killed in football, but it just seems less likely to me having lived it.