Sep 09, 2009 — See The Washington Post
So, Carson Palmer startled the football world by saying that someone was going to die in the NFL. I'm surprised only that anyone would be startled by the comment. ...Players die every year from football injuries. To be precise, seven died in 2008, up from four in 2007, after just one in 2006. Between 1990 and 2008, an average of 4.2 died each season. Another 13 died in 2008 indirectly from football (heart failure, heat stroke, and the like). The National Center for Catastrophic Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill tracks these deaths and has data back to 1931.
