(subscription required)One man’s shattered shin does not compare to those tragedies, but everybody remembers where they were when it happened. “It was sort of a collective pain and shock we all felt,” Dr. Siva Vaidhyanathan said. He’s now a professor of modern media studies at the University of Virginia. On Nov. 18, 1985, he was watching the game with his dorm buddies at Texas. “Monday Night Football” was America’s campfire. In that pre-digital age, everybody gathered around it.