01-09-2023, 11:13 AM
(01-08-2023, 02:45 PM)firedog Wrote: Respect your opinion but my point was more about witnessing something traumatic and those young hockey player kids. That kid that was rushed off the ice by the EMT's was showing no signs of life. Not saying he was dead or dying. But no one knew. He could have been and that's all the crowd and the young players were thinking about. Yet the game eventually continued.
Let me ask you this. Or put it out there for anyone for that matter because I don't think it's been brought up or mentioned and if it has and I missed it I apologize for bringing it up again. What if what happened the other night occurred two or three weeks later in a playoff game? I'm guessing the game would have had to continue. Or at worst, played the following night on a Monday considering a playoff game would have been on Sunday. But the NFL would have made the decision to play it one way or another. But then the question is how can they do it after what the players saw and the player still in critical condition?
To me the choice should be the same for both the other night or if it was a playoff game and yet I don't think it would have. That's just my opinion. If you would have gotten the game in two weeks from now then it should have been played this week because the emotions of the players would have been the same in both instances.
Now we have rule changes, coin flips and neutral fields when there were rules already in place.
I get what you’re saying. If it had happened during the playoffs, where it’s one and done, I think it would have had to be rescheduled. But, now you’re talking only about the teams in the playoffs, not regular season games. And, the cancellation of the Bengals/Bills game DID not affect if either team was in the playoffs. They already were. They were in the playoffs regardless of the outcome of their game. As it turns out, even the Bengals seeding stayed the same.
So, this is all personal wants. But, if it would have happened during the playoffs, obviously the game would have had to be replayed. I would imagine they would have pushed the playoff games back a week.
Continuing to play the game after that young man came close to death, on the field would have…should have incensed most fans. Clearly the players did not want to continue the game, and would have done so ONLY if forced to. And, aside from a few outliers, the fans didn’t want to see that game played, either. If forced to do so, It would have shown that what little credibility the NFL has, would have been bankrupted by showing they don’t care about their players by putting profits ahead of the players. They do enough of that now.
I still say if it had happened to someone like Jessie Bates, I would have expected the same thing from the NFL to cancel the game.
