What would you like to happen?

[CJD]

(01-03-2023, 02:48 PM)Mickeypoo Wrote: I guess the thing is that I don't consider it brutality or insensitivity.  

Per my example of a coworker, I find it reasonable to get the rest of the day and maybe the next.

Maybe there is something wrong with me.  I could have finished the game in that situation, and I am not trying to sound "cool" or "strong".  It's just the way God created me.  Shit happens and you move forward.  I've been that way my whole life.

I don't think you create a complete upheaval in week 18 and through the playoffs because one player out of 32 teams was seriously injured.  Just my (i'm sure very unpopular) take.  I do apologize for seeming insensitive, it's not my intention.  I'd rather post honestly than lie about how I feel.

I think we've been kind of conditioned to expect nothing from employers so that we're not surprised when we're given nothing or very little. I agree with you that 1 to 2 days is likely all people will get if there was a death on site, but that doesn't mean it's correct. I work for an engineering and construction firm and, while we haven't had any deaths in a long time, there was an incident in 2005 where an explosion killed 15 people, 11 of whom worked for my company. I didn't work there at the time, but it is still used today as an example of a failure on the company's part and it causes systemic changes to the way we worked on site. There is no official report of what the surviving team members had to do in terms of work following the incident, but one co-worker who was around at the time (since retired) said they were offered free therapy sessions and paid time off. He didn't mention how much. I hope it was more than a day or two but, honestly, you never know.

That's obviously on a different scale to this, but I think there's a certain amount of trauma that people go through that can't be dispelled in a day or two. You can force employees back to work after a day or two, but you can't force them to be productive and I think that would essentially be what we'd see here. If the Bills were compelled to play or forfeit, they'd be in a lose - lose scenario and, if they played and were obviously not "in the game" the criticism of the NFL would only increase. Not to mention the Bengals would be caught in the crossfire, which we wouldn't want.

The NFL is all about publicity and public image, and I'm not sure they'd want to take on that backlash.