If you worked with a load of millenials it would be closed for at least a year. Okay being facetious, sort of. But your point is valid. It's a sport. Entertainment (or it's supposed to be, Jets notwithstanding). People aren't meant to die as a result. They aren't firefighters or armed forces where more will probably die if they become an emotional wreck. Injuries are expected, some serious. Death, that's a whole new ball game.
Your fallacious argument is that someone died. That wasn't what took place. He was taken the the hospital with serious health issues and nobody knew what would happen. In that situation worrying doesn't solve any problems. It just creates them, which is why quitting in that situation is immature. When you have a responsibility and are helpless to determine the outcome, you soldier on with your obligations like a man. No quit and create more problems like a child. Its not old school or new school. Its a fact of life about maturity, needed in a society that is being trained to react like 3rd graders. The NFL is a a next man up league where all teams rely on each other for it to work. Comparing it to your office is another false comparison. You entire fallacious argument is uneducated.
Was just about to say the same thing. Besides the fact that no one quit, the game was suspended. The players are playing this week and then in the playoffs.
Because medical fields, first responders and military are jobs in which death is an expected occurance of the work. Obviously there is an expectation in those fields that doesn't apply to every other profession in which death is not expected to occur as part of the day... ever! It's not hard to understand that pretty obvious difference and how that difference will impact people doing those jobs if someone dropped dead in front of them.
No death isn't expected in those fields. You don't go to work expecting to die. You realize its possible, the same way NFL players realize its possible that the NFL can kill them to; concussions or on-field hits. Obviously death on-field is the worst case scenario but if you play in the NFL, you have to realize its not impossible. Im still on the side they should have cancelled the game fyi, but there is a chance it does set a precedent. Also what if this happened in the Super Bowl? or a playoff game? What would the NFL do then. Its certainly a possibility, and I think players need to realize that if it happened in that situation its more likely than not they would have to continue playing. Its unfortunate, but its part of the job.
It's just a game. A game where people get paid tens of millions and an estimated 100 billion is bet on each year. But just a game. Oh, I forgot about the value of all the re venue streams. Someone else can figure that out.
He had an injury from a preseason game where he collapsed in the locker room but they couldn't find the problem. The game he died in was 2 months later where he caught a pass and then 3 plays later collapsed on the way back to the huddle. https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/spo...mar-hamlin-collapses-during-nfl-game/3038181/ https://www.ksat.com/news/local/202...field-during-a-game-is-buried-in-san-antonio/ https://www.nbcnews.com/news/sports...tched-damar-hamlins-collapse-horror-rcna64016
Imagine if there was an equivalence between first responders and football players You mean except for the fact that McGahee was moving around?
Quit because of sadness? That has to be the dumbest take I have ever read. I wonder sometimes if people with takes like have ever played a sport. Neither side was emotionally ready to continue that game after seeing a friend for all intent and purposes dead on the field. These are humans not animals and the correct call was made. The game would have been of horrible quality and the risk of injury to go up 10 fold.
Didn't they perform CPR on him on the field? That would indicate his heart had stopped, wouldn't it? A stopped heart kinda indicates someone is dead at that moment.
After having taken the time to read this whole thing, I ask myself why I did. Scanning through again I still haven't found anything in it, or in any of the other posts here that shows why it was so important to play the game or finish it at all. Tomorrow the regular season games will be played and we'll move on from there to the playoffs and the Super Bowl. A game or two may end up being played on a neutral field; most teams won't play for another year. Big deal.
