I don't know how you address it, unless he had been evaluated on the side-line and put back in. But I agree something needs to be done, tougher penalties for headshots, mandatory evaluation and removal from game, better equipment even if it changes game as we know it, etc. If I had a son, I'd have to think hard about encouraging them to participate in American football. The physical injuries are bad enough, but the whole rahrah aspects of the game are a bit revolting. Haven't always felt that way, but I sure do nowadays.

That would be a wonderful ruse!

That was really messed up. It seemed to me that when the Alabama player was pointing at him he thought the Alabama player was trying to tell him where to stand.

How hard did he get hit? It seems you have to be hit really hard in order to not know you are huddling with the wrong team and that a person is trying to tell you, or other people that you are standing with the wrong team.

Also, where were his teammates? His teammates should have come to get him and bring him to the sidelines.

I suffered one where I at 235 lbs was the smaller person of the two of us landing on my head on a hardwood floor (martial arts sparring that went very wrong). I apparently got up, sparred some more, participated in a group photo before wandering off to collapse/sit in a dark quiet stairwell before having conversations with multiple people none of whom thought that I had a concussion. The symptoms lasted for a month and multiple people with medical backgrounds including a doctor and an emt noticed that my lights were on but I wasn't home.

It does happen.