{"id":5793,"date":"2025-09-24T00:51:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T00:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=5793"},"modified":"2025-09-24T00:51:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T00:51:12","slug":"teen-footballers-spine-fractured-after-brut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=5793","title":{"rendered":"Teen footballer\u2019s spine fractured after brut"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Michigan Teen Suffers Spinal Injuries in High School Football Game<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Michigan high school football game turned tragic when 15-year-old Colton Mims of<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kalamazoo Central was crushed under a much larger Lakeshore player during a junior varsity matchup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tackle, captured in viral video, shows the opposing player landing on Colton twice, leaving spectators in shock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Colton was immediately taken to the hospital, where doctors confirmed he suffered two spinal fractures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is on muscle relaxers and under close medical supervision, with his ability to return to football uncertain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His mother, Courtney Mims, described the scene as overwhelming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve never been as upset or shaken up as I was over something for my son,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s out at least for this season. We don\u2019t know if he\u2019s going to be able to play again\u2026 My kid could have been paralyzed easily.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The family and community are grappling with the impact of the injury on Colton\u2019s football future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michigan Teen Suffers Spinal Injuries in High School Football Game A Michigan high school football game turned tragic when 15-year-old Colton Mims of Kalamazoo Central was crushed under a much larger Lakeshore player during a junior varsity matchup. The tackle, captured in viral video, shows the opposing player landing on Colton twice, leaving spectators in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5795,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5793\/revisions\/5795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}