What if?

[Big Boss]

(01-04-2023, 01:37 PM)Mickeypoo Wrote: I understand this, but now look at the mess that is created and how many people could be effected because highly paid, elite pro athletes couldn't suck it up and finish the game.  Nothing they do or don't do effects Hamlin and his health.  If he was truly gone forever I would have a different opinion, but he was alive and getting the best care.

I'm really not trying to be cold, it's just that sometimes crappy things happen and you need to to what needs to be done.  In this case finish the game.  Regular people keep working through awful situations every single day.

You may not be trying to be cold, but it does come across that way, Mickey.  Sorry.

These guys are teammates, friends, sometimes almost brothers.  They spend more time with each other during the season than they probably do with their own families.  Put yourself in their shoes.  You stand by helplessly watching while your best friend is revived from death, in critical condition, then after they're loaded into an ambulance you're asked to go back to work with complete and total focus on your job.  As if nothing happened.  If you're honestly going to sit there and tell me that you'd be able to do that no problem, then I'm honestly going to call it a lie.  I get it.  Projecting mental and emotional resilience no matter what circumstance sounds cool and all, but I'm not buying it here.  Definitely not selling it either. If I watched my best friend get his heart resuscitated and then he was driven off to a hospital and I had no idea what was going to happen to him, I'm not focusing on anything else.  Doesn't matter what profession I'm in.    

They're human beings that witnessed a traumatic event.  That supersedes whatever "mess" the NFL is left to navigate.