He is one of the most recognized and admired voices in Mexican sports narration as part of The Three Amigos on NFL broadcastsbut what practically no one knew is that Enrique Burak almost died a week before Super Bowl XLI in 2007 after playing a game of tochito with the people of Televisa Deportes.
What happened to Enrique Burak?
Remembering his many anecdotes in the coverage of 30 editions of the Super Bowl, Burak explained that a morphine patch brought him close to deaththis after having suffered the broken leg in the aforementioned game, which was Javier Alarcón’s idea to promote the transmission through TUDN.
“It occurred to Javier Alarcón to make a match the Friday before our trip to the Super Bowl on Monday. It was a match between people from the Televisa Sports office and artists, Javier told me that he should play because it was one of the main images of the coverage and he convinced me, “he told Toño de Valdés’ YouTube channel.
The fracture that almost killed the Televisa commentator
The involuntary protagonist of this story is the influencer nigris poncho, who participated with the team of artists. An interception of yours ended with Burak in an ambulancepoorly tied to the stretcher, with a broken leg.
“During the game, Memo Schutz sends a long pass that I don’t reach and Poncho de Nigris intercepts him. The idiot on your server comes up with a run to take him down, but a carambola was made and my leg got stuck between everyone. The result was fractured tibia and fibula three days before traveling to the Super Bowland to make matters worse I suffered another fracture when they were putting a nail in my leg”, he recalled.
“I remember everyone like crazy asking me who was operating on me, asking for an ambulance and The only thing in my mind was that we were traveling to Miami on Monday. Finally the ambulance arrives and I was bouncing like a marble in the back because they never fixed the stretcher well.”
‘I felt that I was leaving, that I was dying’; Burak in the hospital
When he seemed to be on the mend, Enrique Burak was close to death for a morphine patch that was applied to alleviate the discomfort in his leg, but the timely intervention of his wife was what literally saved his life.
“They operated on me, but I had a complication in the hospital and it is thanks to my wife Tatiana that I am alive. They put me on a morphine patch for postoperative pain, but in the contraindications it said that you shouldn’t put yourself in the condition I was in because it caused cardiorespiratory problems,” she said.
“i was dyingIt was Sunday with doctors on duty. Fortunately, my wife kept the paper of the patch that they put on me because they wanted to put me in intensive care, My lungs filled with water, I felt like I was literally leaving, that I was dying.“added Enrique, who despite all this was present narrating Super Bowl XLI for Televisawhich was a victory for Peyton Manning’s Indianapolis Colts over the Chicago Bears.
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