It's the first time a player has collapsed and received CPR then transported to a hospital and is in critical condition. There have been players pass out due to concussion, however none were in danger of dying.

Pure conjecture here, but this goes along with 3 to a degree. They definitely have some sort of hold on the players. A few years back, an NFL running back claimed that the league was scripted and make the players sign an NDA so that it doesn't get out how much scripting goes into it. Now this is no shock, most people with a brain could see why the league that is a multi billion a year industry would cause certain outcomes to make things more "exciting," but the more fascinating part of it is that he tweeted about it and was going to tell more, however the tweet was deleted very quickly after and we never heard more. Seems that the league has some pretty big levers of control they pull. This of course most likely means the cabal is involved with every sport to some degree. Hell, this year the NFL started advertising sports gambling websites and casinos, which I'm sure is a great way to make sure that Marxist senator doesn't have to live on a measly 150k.