We are reminded real life is bigger than the mighty NFL as Damar Hamlin fights for his life after suffering cardiac arrest in Monday night's game, JarrettBell writes.
The NFL officially suspended the game after Hamlin, a 24-year-old second-year safety for the Bills, was administered CPR and AED after he collapsed following the type of hard tackle we’ve seen hundreds of times on any given week of action.
“That’s ridiculous,” Troy Vincent, the NFL’s executive vice president for football operations, told reporters during a midnight conference call. “That’s insensitive. And that’s not a place that we should ever be in.” It’s an unspeakable tragedy that constitutes the worst nightmare for the NFL, an institution habitually under attack for safety measures and the long-term risks associated with a physical, violent sport. It’s hard to imagine that the NFL could have done anything with its rules to prevent what happened to Hamlin. But it could control its response.
“I’ve never seen anything like it. Immediately, my player hat went on. How do you resume play when such a traumatic event occurred in front of you in real time?”As former NFL safety Ryan Clark said on ESPN’s SportsCenter, “None of those men are emotionally equipped to handle this.” Now it’s possible that the NFL could table the final game of Week 17 and finish its regular season with an imbalanced schedule for two teams. As the Covid-19 pandemic raged in 2020, the NFL furiously exercised all options and flexibility to play a complete schedule, revising the schedule along the way to account for outbreaks that hit various teams.
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