Semi-Pro Football Player Dies After Blind Hit During Charity Game

Following Junior Seau's tragic death earlier this month, which reports have speculated may have been linked to his many concussions from football, debates have intensified over the short and long-term dangers of the game.

(Related: Former Linebacker Junior Seau Dead in Apparent Suicide-- Mother Delivers Heart-Wrenching Presser)

In the most recent tragedy, semi-professional football player David Coleman has died after a blind hit during, of all things, a charity game to raise money for Lou Gehrig's disease.

ABC 13 reported on the story:

According to the Toledo Blade, 32-year-old Coleman played for the Jay County (Ind.) Panthers, and was injured in an afternoon contest against the Northwest Ohio Knights at Springfield High School, before being pronounced dead at a nearby hospital.

"No one expected this," said Anthony Mathis, the quarterback of the opposing team, the Northwest Ohio Knights.

"This is just a fluke, and this is like a one-in-a-million chance, and unfortunately that chance happened today."