Super Bowl may trigger heart attacks

CNN ^ | January 31, 2011 | Matt McMillen

[Malone LaVeigh]

This Sunday's Super Bowl could prove to be a real heartbreaker for some fans of the losing team.

A new study suggests that the emotional stress fans feel after a loss may trigger fatal heart attacks, especially in people who already have heart disease. Stress generates the so-called fight-or-flight response, which causes sharp upticks in heart rate and blood pressure that can strain the heart.

[Malone LaVeigh]

"Address what needs to be changed so that you can make it to the end of the game."

IOW, no booze or tasty snacks.
What's the point?

[Sacajaweau]

My wife upset me...I thought I was going to have a heart attack. It was self defense.

And what did she do that upset you??

She cut the plug on the TV during the last quarter of the Superbowl when the game was tied.

NOT GUILTY!!!

[Steely Tom]

I thought the Super Bowl triggered wife-beating.

[Allegra]

I thought it triggered massive toilet flushing during halftime.

[Abathar]

If you’re so close to death that a loss of the super bowl game can kill you then I’d rather they die happy with a big foam finger on one hand and a beer in their other as opposed to doing it while flipping off a soccer mom who just cut him off while talking on her cell.

[Abathar]

Chicago public works has a full crew on hand just to handle that massive flush.

[Seruzawa]

If there’s one thing you can count on liberals or medical researchers doing it’s finding fault with anything that is fun.

These studies are usually coooked and massaged crap anyhow.

[Le Chien Rouge]

I was a 19 year old college sophomore in 1987 when Keith Smart hit a buzzer beater to deny my Orangemen the National title in basketball.

I nearly had a heart attack from depression.....another 10 sots of vodka saved my life that night.

[capydick]

I thought the Super Bowl was the cause of wife beating that day and flushing @ half time will make the sewers overflow?

And - remember - if the (NFC) Packers win - the stock market will go up in 2011.

[MortMan]

I nearly had a heart attack from depression.....another 10 sots of vodka saved my life that night.

What an apropos typo! ;-P

I remember that game - I grew up in the Finger Lakes region.

[mewykwistmas]

Before or after they beat their wives?

[discostu]

A “new study” like the Steeler fan that did suffer a heart attack 5 years ago when The Bus fumbled on the goal line in the Colts game? Yup strong emotion can bang up an already stressed system, Redd Foxx knew it, glad these guys finally caught up.

[rogue yam]

I thought the Super Bowl was the cause of wife beating that day and flushing @ half time will make the sewers overflow?

Don't forget the avocado sales.

Don't ever forget the avocado sales.

[TexasRepublic]

It’s only a freakin’ ball game, fer cryin’ out loud! Get a life people!

[rogue yam]

After what the playoffs did to Jack LaLanne I don’t think any of us are safe next Sunday.

[Liberty Valance]

Replacing the banana as America's favorite fruit!

[isthisnickcool]

Super Bowl. Never watched one and never intend to. Boring.

[null and void]

Cancel it. If it saves just one life it’s worth it...

[BubbaJunebug]

Will only happen this time at half time if Fergie has a wardrobe malfunction

[Uncle Miltie]

I go fishing.