One of the worst moments in Younghoe Koo’s NFL career last season may have saved a man’s life.

At least that’s how it seems if you hear Mark Toothaker describe what happened to him when he was home with his wife last December watching Monday Night Football as the New York Giants played the New England Patriots.

In the second quarter of the game, Koo, kicking for the Giants, suffered a terrible, funny, awful, embarrassing moment when he abruptly decided not to follow through on a field goal attempt and the play turned into a Keystone Cops moment on national television.

Perhaps like many fans who witnessed the play, Toothaker began laughing at Koo’s expense. But suddenly, unexpectedly, the laughter turned into a crisis when it brought on a violent seizure.

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And that led to things, which led to things, which Toothaker believes saved his life.

“(The) kicker saved my life because it could’ve happened any other time,” Toothaker told The Associated Press. “I wholeheartedly believe I was in the right spot at the right time, and he was the trigger for that happening. It was a miracle.”

Toothaker sees a miracle in Koo’s aborted kick and his medical emergency , which he likens to getting “electrocuted” because his wife immediately called 911. When paramedics arrived, they whisked him to the hospital.

A CT scan revealed a tennis-ball-sized tumor on the left side of Toothaker’s brain. So, yes, serious stuff manifesting after laughter

“When you hear the news, ‘You’ve got a brain tumor,’ that’s what nobody wants to hear,” said Malory Toothaker, who happens to be a nurse who works with brain-injury patients.

Toothaker was transferred to the University of Kentucky’s hospital, where the tumor was surgically removed. It turned out to be benign, according to The Associated Press.

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Toothaker was home by the end of the week with no lasting damage and and he continues working at Spendthrift Farm whose thoroughbred Further Ado will race in Saturday’s Kentucky Derby.

Toothaker, 59, said he had no symptoms and no idea the tumor had pushed his brain six millimeters to the right as it grew. All Toothaker knows for sure is that his job as stallion season manager requires he drive and fly all around the country.

And if that seizure had hit when he was in the air or behind the wheel, a cool story might have a different ending.

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“I could have had it on a plane, anywhere,” Toothaker said. “I didn’t kill anybody. I didn’t run over a family in my Expedition running up and down the road. I guess that would’ve been the hardest thing for me to live with if somebody would’ve got hurt out of this.

“Believe me, as tough as that thing was, as violent as that seizure was, I have no memory of it and I would find it hard to believe that I wouldn’t have hurt somebody or hurt myself if I would’ve been behind a wheel.”

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Toothaker’s good fortune was part of Koo’s undoing.

He was released by the Giants after a Week 15 loss to the Washington Commanders when he missed two field goals. The memory of the botched attempt against the Patriots definitely didn’t help his cause, either, as the team decided his fate.

Fox News attempted to contact Koo for this story but he did not return a message.

“I know it wasn’t his best moment, but it was beyond crazy,” Toothaker said. “For [Malory] and I to be belly-laughing at his expense, which I feel terrible about now, but it all worked out in the end, that for me it couldn’t have been at a better moment.”

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A Wisconsin teacher was placed on leave following controversial comments in which he said he was “not impressed with recent presidential assassins.”

Kaukauna High School social studies teacher Patrick Meyer suggested that the four men who successfully assassinated a U.S. president — John Wilkes Booth, Charles Guiteau, Leon Czolgosz and, Lee Harvey Oswald — must be rolling over in their graves after recent failed attempts to kill a president.

“I am not impressed with recent presidential assassins. It’s f—ing embarrassing! Booth, Guiteau, Czolgosz, Oswald must all be spinning in their graves! MAGAA (make Americans great assassins again)! Sad!” Meyer said in a since-deleted post on X, appearing to mock President Donald Trump’s Make America Great Again, or MAGA, slogan.

The Kaukauna Area School District released a statement on Monday saying it had been made aware of the post and that Meyer, who has worked as a teacher in the district for more than 20 years, had been placed on administrative leave.

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“The District has placed the employee on administrative leave and is taking additional action to review the matter in accordance with its policies and procedures,” the district wrote.

“The Kaukauna Area School District is committed to maintaining a safe and supportive learning environment for all students, families, and staff, and unequivocally rejects any conduct, expression, or behavior that may encourage, condone, or promote violence in any form,” the statement added.

The district also said that the content of the social media post “was not related to the Kaukauna Area School District, and there has been no evidence of a risk to the safety of our students and schools.”

Fox News Digital reached out to the district for additional comment. Fox News Digital also reached out to Meyer for comment.

Rep. Tony Wied, R-Wisc., said on social media, “This type of disgusting rhetoric has no place in our society and does not represent our values in #WI08. It is not the example that our teachers should be setting for Northeast Wisconsin students.”

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The comments came amid heightened concern over political violence following the recent shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington, D.C.

Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., said America needs to cool heated political rhetoric after Saturday’s shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner.

“We really have to just… turn that temperature down,” he told “Hannity” Monday. “The president was shot in the head in my own state just back in Butler too. People seem to, they forgot that, too.”

“We really got lucky because it could have been far more even catastrophic, and I’m so grateful no one was hurt.”

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The suspected shooter at the WHCA Dinner, Cole Allen, a computer scientist from Torrance, California, allegedly wrote in a manifesto note that his targets were Trump administration officials with the exception of FBI Director Kash Patel. According to Federal Election Commission records, Allen donated $25 to Kamala Harris during the 2024 election cycle. He faces three counts, including attempting to assassinate the President of the United States, transporting a firearm across state lines, and discharging a firearm during a crime of violence.

Fetterman’s comments about political rhetoric come as comedian Jimmy Kimmel faces backlash after he jokingly called first lady Melania Trump an “expectant widow” days before the WHCA Dinner shooting.

“Our first lady, Melania, is here. Look at Melania, so beautiful. Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow,” Kimmel said Thursday.

Melania Trump condemned his poorly timed joke in a statement on X Monday morning.

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“His monologue about my family isn’t comedy — his words are corrosive and deepens the political sickness within America,” she said.

President Donald Trump also fired back, saying ABC should “immediately” fire Kimmel over the “despicable call to violence.”

Fetterman criticized heated political rhetoric that the White House says incites violent attacks like Saturday’s shooting.

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“I’ve always refused to use that kind of language, and I strongly and in the strongest terms, I reject the extreme rhetoric for anyone at this point,” the Pennsylvania Democrat said.

Since the shooting, Trump has reignited calls to build a ballroom at the White House to create a space for safe and secure official events.

Fetterman said the event, held at the Washington Hilton, was improperly secure, especially since the line of presidential succession was in attendance.

He told “Hannity” he is in full support of building a White House ballroom and called on his Democratic colleagues to “drop the TDS” and help the building.

“We need to have a secure facility for events just like this,” Fetterman said. “We can’t ever allow to be exposed in that way to an attack. That hotel was never designed to do that in a safe way.”

“Our country deserves that. And that’s gonna create a venue for more secure and inclusive and really more accessible for people,” he added.