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Study shows men will delay ER visit if the game is on

by Joel Keller, posted Oct 11th 2006 11:32AM
Nate Robertson and Craig Monroe of the TigersSay you were a guy watching Game 1 of the ALCS last night. While chopping up celery sticks to eat with your buffalo wings, you get so excited that the Tigers were smacking the crap out of the A's Barry Zito, you slip and put a big gash in your finger. It's so big that it looks like it might need stitches. So you immediately leave the house and go to the ER, right?

Not necessarily, according to a new study conducted by a Baltimore ER physician. Two years ago, he found that the number of men who check into the ER during a televised sporting event drops 30 percent as opposed to the levels on the same day of the week when there are no sports on. Now, his new study reveals that in the four hours after the event ends, overall ER attendance is 40 percent higher than the average for the same day and time of the week. It's especially evident during college football telecasts. The reasons behind the visits (*cough*Alcohol*cough*) will be studied next.

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LC

Now CSI:Miami has an idea for a story. I can picture David Caruso standing over the body of a dead sports fan, taking off his glasses and tilting his head saying "Game Over."

October 11 2006 at 4:54 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Rob

This is the problem with all of these frivilous 'studies'. They see a trend, and then jump to conclusions about how the trend came about. So the "number of men who check into the ER during a televised sporting event drops 30 percent as opposed to the levels on the same day of the week when there are no sports on"

So what? That doesn't mean that men are idiots and will sit and watch a game while they bleed out all over their white carpet.

Another, more likely, explanation is the fact that with more men in groups watching sporting events, they are in a safer environment, and less prone to get into a car accident or something of that sort.

October 11 2006 at 3:42 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jim

Oh, "your mom," get a hobby. Do women realize how sad they look when their first reaction to every situation is enthusiastic man-hating? Try to be less of a cartoon.

If we're going to go in for baseless gender-typing on this one, how about: men are less panicky and realize they'll get through the rest of their lives just fine with a scar or two.

October 11 2006 at 2:26 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Michael G

Smacking the Crap? A's lost, but 5 runs is not smacking the
crap.

It is not over till its over.

True, i would leave after the game, or ask the paramedics to turn the radio on to the game. (I do not drink)

October 11 2006 at 2:09 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
HURRICANE ANDREW

Further proof that men are just stupid little boys trapped in a beer fed body.

October 11 2006 at 12:30 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply

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