Also, this shouldn't even be up to the players to make the call. That's the ultimate cop-out by leadership.
Damar Hamlin is headed home to Buffalo!
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The longer this goes the worse the NFL looks. Between the “get back and play, you have 5 min” to the players and coaches forcing a temporary suspension and now nearly an hour later, no updates at all and no action.
ESPN pays nearly $3 billion per year to air MNF and nobody ever thought to game plan this situation.
Discussing what happens when they postpone this game doesn't mean we don't care what happens to the player.
Let's all have some grace towards each other.
The worst was the Mass Mutual commercial.
But it’s all an impossible situation. I hope everyone cuts ESPN a break here, so long as they keep making best efforts.
Stands looking largely full, seems like they might resume. Of course, folks might not leave without knowing if their tickets are made good or not.
It’s literally unprecedented. Game planning for every single possible scenario is impossible.
I was so pissed at the uncaring callousness of that bullshit get the animals ready to perform in "5 minutes", when the right thing and decent thing to do was pretty clear.
So long as the players in the locker room know they won’t be forced to play unless that’s what they want, I’m not particularly bothered if they wait an hour or two to let the rest of us know what the plan is. It’s possible we’ll know a lot more about Hamlin’s condition in an hour, and it’s a lot easier to announce that the game will resume tomorrow if we know Hamlin is stable. (In the worst case scenario, I’m not sure playing tomorrow is all that much better than resuming the game tonight.)
It’s not that hard to figure out: hey we should stop running ads including one about temporary disability insurance and also not make the commentators speculate or even talk absent new news. Just show a static shot of the stadium maybe with the notice in the background. ESPN and ABC should be able to figure this out and deserve no breaks.
You don’t have to make a decision right now but if you don’t think Joe Chiefsfan is going to be livid if for examples both teams are give a win (or Billsmafia fan is going to be maddening the bills don’t get a chance to play for a win to get the bye) you don’t know sports fans.
Nope. That just feeds into that bullshit, next man up/play through injury/warrior mentality. These guys will feel pressured to play, they don't deserve that.
View: https://twitter.com/pauldehnerjr/status/1610105711362449408?s=46&t=-NVsti5kTcU1g5rt2n_DBg
Burrow and the other CIN captains in the Bills locker room
Burrow and the other CIN captains in the Bills locker room
Believe me, everything has been planned for. The coverage is being done respectfully and well. There’s nothing to say by the commentators, but they can’t cut away.
I think this game either finishes tonight or it doesn’t finish at all. Postponing is going to be a logistical nightmare, and asking the players to spend a night in a hotel and come back tomorrow to keep playing is just as unreasonable as asking them to play tonight.
I’m not sure allowing our predisposition to hating Goodell and the league to drive all of our assumptions about what’s going on is particularly useful or illuminating.
It’s okay to have multiple threads of thoughts in one’s mind. Yes, a tragedy has occurred. But eventually the world is going to move on, and these things are going to have to be figured out.
In the NFL, maybe. But players have collapsed and some have died on the field/court in too many cases. Remember Hank Gathers? And the Dutch soccer player recently…
As a Bama fan who grew up rooting for the Steelers, I should hate Joe Burrow, but I’ve always liked the guy.
I think people can take a deep breath about the NFL forcing these guys to resume play tonight. It’s pretty clear that’s not happening.
You get the feeling the players are saying ”fuck this shit, if we walk out the door the game is definitely not restarting”
Eh - I think you never really know here.
It is possible he can get all the care he needs in the ambulance.
Who knows. Who also knows the exact timelines here. Live event initial reporting is notoriously inaccurate.
Kudos to the event security guy taking pictures of the teams and league officials meeting in the tunnel.
that was part of the Fabrice Muamba incident -- a cardiologist fan who traveled with the player directed the ambulance to a specialized hospital a few miles farther away from the stadium.
You think the Mass Mutual as was intentionally timed?
How about we worry about what’s actually important?
Based on Lisa Salters' comments about Bills players leaving the locker room but not headed towards the field, I think it is academic and they are going to get the team out of there before dismissing the fans and formally canceling the game.
If there was anything to cause a wildcat strike in the NFL, it would be something like this.
So they are irresponsible for not preparing for something that’s happened twice in 30 years across all major sports aired on TV. Should they prepare for a fan man scenario too?
There is no way in the world that Goodell wants to answer the question
, why did you resume play last night?
, why did you resume play last night?
View: https://twitter.com/FOX19Tricia/status/1610106980005191689
I am told that Damar Hamlin has been intubated and is currently listed in critical condition. @fox19
I am told that Damar Hamlin has been intubated and is currently listed in critical condition. @fox19