Jane Coaston: 'The sport I love most is football. The sport that has given me the most is football. But this sport has devastated lives and families. What do I, and other fans of the sport, owe them?'
. The sport I love most is football. The sport that has given me the most is football. But this sport has devastated lives and families. What do I, and other fans of the sport, owe them?
I put this question in an email to Domonique Foxworth, the former NFL cornerback, former NFL Players Association president and ESPN contributor, who has been open and honest in his discussions about Damar Hamlin and how NFL playersby the people who watch the sport. “I don’t know that I have a clean answer for this,” he told me, adding, “They get treated much better than most people when they do something extraordinary and they are dehumanized when they fail.
He said that the conversation about what football fans owe the people who play the sport was complicated, by race and money and fame and who knows what else. He also noted: “I’m sure a million tragic things happened to people across the country on Monday night and Damar Hamlin is the only person to get the compassionate outpouring. Which I guess makes me feel good.” But, “I also think about how we as fans would react if he had a dumb penalty that cost him the game.
We often treat football players like they are either untouchable gods or useless simpletons who are unable to make a tackle . But football players are people, first and foremost. After Damar Hamlin collapsed, his teammates took off their helmets and some knelt close to him while others consoled one another nearby.
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