Also, I think we all need to recognize that now that this Pandora's box has been opened, it will be opened again in the future. The next time a player suffers a spinal cord injury -- and there will be a next time -- this game is going to be invoked as a precedent for shutting it down. That's workable if the league has a parsimonious procedure in place for dealing with a canceled game. It can't be the league making it up as they go along every 3-4 years.
I think this incident was different than most injuries as the Hamlin was in cardiac arrest and his life was being saved on the field. I think suspending the game that night was the right call and necessary given that scenario. The look on players & coaches faces was unlike anything I had ever seen before in relation to an on field injury.
However, now that Hamlin is stable (even though still critical condition) this now shifts to be more like a paralysis situation which hasn't caused this kind of turmoil.
This is a very unfortunate situation but at this point it seems to fall in line with other serious injuries that players risk all the time and teammates play through all the time. It's why I think the game should have been played tonight once Hamlin was deemed to be in critical yet stable condition early Tuesday.
Everybody keeps saying that this situation is unprecedented, but not only is it not unprecedented,
it's not even unprecedented for the Buffalo Bills. What's unprecedented is the decision to postpone the game. Somebody should have thought one step ahead before making that decision.
Safe to say the Bills played again the following week?
Great link, forgot about Everett, glad he recovered to at least live a normal life
Guy was paralyzed at the start of his rehab
Yes of course. Nobody thought twice about finishing that game and playing the following week. This thing where we expect adults to become non-functional in the face of tragedy is an extremely recent development. Brett Favre was universally lionized when he started a game after his dad died. Back in the olden days of 2020, Josh Allen was universally lionized for starting a game the day after his grandmother died. That's what we should expect from people. Not this type of thing.
Question IK if you don't mind
What happens if that's a 1:00 game on CBS this past Sunday?
-ESPN, Primetime, Suzy Kolber and Adam Schefter exchanging tissues back and forth, Joe Buck being Joe Buck in the booth
I'm not trying to make light of the injury, simply wondering what happens? Is the game stopped in the same manner? I want to believe so but I'm not totally sure and I don't know if I see the same Dominique Foxworth rant on Tuesday Morning like what i saw on Get Up yesterday.
And there's rumblings Buffalo doesn't play this weekend, so i'll ask 1 more question for enquiring minds.
Should Buffalo watch KC win Sat Night and knowing that winning % might be the final verdict
which would make the game vs the Patriots meaningless and rather than play it like preseason and risk injuries to anyone on the field, just dial down into the mental health vein and inform the NFL that you all will be ready to roll when Wildcard weekend starts? Just tell us where we are flying into, looks like Jacksonville possibly...you catch my drift?
Why risk further injuries if Sunday doesn't count? You can't just play scrubs, there still will be starting players that shuffle into the game, all things considered, they can make their own Bye week this week and just get ready for JAX/TEN