Chan: I had no idea what was really going on. Blake Hurtik yelled “watch out” about a split second before, and I thought it was going to be a Gatorade shower or something like that, since it was a state championship game. Instead I got a golf cart to the knee.

Hurtik: I was able to jump out of the way, because I caught it out of the corner of my right eye a couple seconds before it hit. I had my recorder going, and I went back and played it back afterwards, and you can actually hear me go, “Oh, shit!” right before it made contact.

Smith: There were these two guys on the other side of Coach Amendola, and it looked like they were facing more towards where the cart was coming from, and right when it got within a few yards they hurried up and jumped out of the way. I guess they got a chance to see it. Of course, at the time I had no idea what had happened. It’s funny, because I thought at first that maybe one of the kids had gotten a pickup truck or something and was celebrating and driving down the field and that he’d hit us.

Silvers: As soon as the cart made impact, I yelled into my microphone, “Oh, no! A cart has just slammed into a group of people on the field here at Cowboys Stadium." Then we just tried to continue to describe what was happening—medical personnel coming out to check on the injuries sustained and whatnot. To be honest, we didn't know until the next day, once we saw that the video of the accident had gone viral, that Coach Amendola was one of the people struck by the cart.

Chan: I had no idea what hit me, and I didn’t really realize what was going on. I was kind of just on the ground in a daze. My tape recorder actually ended up in the cart, so I guess it got about 30 yards after contact. And I’m kind of wondering what’s going on, seeing if any of these guys were injured, and seeing if I could help out. Blake’s running around seeing if anyone can help out.… Kudos to Willie Amendola, who got taken for a ride on the cart, and while he’s sitting on the front manages to steer it away from a guy on the ground.

Smith: It kind of hit me twice. And after I got hit the first time, I got put on the front of the cart sort of, and I looked up and saw Coach Amendola there behind the wheel. And he was looking right at me, and I was looking at him, and you know what he did? He tried to guide it away from me, so it didn’t hit me straight on. But I was too close, so it still got me a little bit. I actually got knocked out for about 10 or 15 seconds.

Hurtik: It was just a surreal thing, seeing a ghost-riding golf cart just coming at this group of people with a pretty good rate of speed, and then seeing a bunch of the people crumpled on the ground afterwards. A couple guys there got seriously hurt, I think. I mean, Lorne was a little sore the next day, but nothing worth pressing charges against Jerry Jones about, I guess.

Chan: I guess I was the seven pin there.