***Week 17 GameDay Thread - Bills @ Bengals***

[Fan_in_Kettering]

(01-02-2023, 11:50 PM)Destro Wrote: Postponing may not mean much. If his condition is worse, how do they play tomorrow or Wednesday? They don't. Game happens tonight or everyone goes home. I see that being the only thing being considered by the NFL

Declare a tie and be done with it. I don’t even care that we’re leading.

[Lowerguywins]

NFL had precautions for football games do to Covid! Just use those precautions for Bills and their brother!

[masonbengals fan]

(01-02-2023, 11:49 PM)Nicomo Cosca Wrote: Both Burrow and Taylor have made their way to the Bills locker room. I’m proud of the men that lead this team.

Yes sir

[BengalFanInNJ]

They aren’t going to play.

[StrictlyBiz]

My wife watched it, and she’s guessing a heart arrhythmia that caused cardiac arrest.

[coachmcneil71]

(01-02-2023, 11:48 PM)bfine32 Wrote: What else can they do? Cut to an episode of Mayberry RFD?

Heidi?

[Bengalitis]

I remember about 20 yrs back a Lions Offensive Lineman became quadriplegic during a Thanksgiving game I believe, and the hit did not look like much. Sometimes they look very innocuous but enough to do serious damage.

[grampahol]

(01-02-2023, 11:45 PM)Nately120 Wrote: So play the game tomorrow.  Hell, if someone put $100k on the Bills, I'd wager they are hoping the NFL doesn't force them to go right back out there and play ASAP.  Then again, the Bengals players don't look like they'd have their hearts in it right now, either.

Yeah, money is involved, but Burrow and Allen alone are going to have like a billion bucks between them eventually.  This is prime time, too...there aren't 10 other games on right now to distract people.  The world is watching this, and I'd wager that's why the NFL is sweating and wondering what to do.

Regardless of how fans feel about it there are still contractual obligations and those contracts don't get cancelled because of an injury or death. There's a whole lot of money involved here and money doesn't care about feelings. If the league just cancelled the game they're probably going to be liable for millions upon millions, betting houses will be liable, fans and tickets..
The league has to be weighing all of these considerations..

[jfkbengals]

Hopefully that was them signing off on the game ending.

[Fan_in_Kettering]

(01-02-2023, 11:52 PM)BengalFanInNJ Wrote: They aren’t going to play.

I pray not.

[M.W.]

(01-02-2023, 11:45 PM)swilson3828 Wrote: Im more concerned about his head getting popped back.  If his heart stopped because of some sort of force knocking it out of rhythm, then he can survive that, but a traumatic brain injury I'm not so sure about, esp with a C1-C3 fracture I'm not so sure about.  Just shocked and saddened.  Hope to God he makes it through this

Yes, I am afraid he suffered a broken neck.

[Clark W Griswold]

Casinos or online sites can just refund the $. Games have been cancelled before. I think they need to call it for tonight and figure out the logistics later

Not really that important so just call it a night

[jwalker3853]

(01-02-2023, 11:50 PM)bengalfan74 Wrote: Could the Dale Earnhardt kinda injury be it ? I mean I know he wasn't going 190 MPH but something like it with the whiplash to neck/spine.

Dale passed from a basil skull fracture. Same thing could happen here I suppose but don't really know what forces are needed for that to occur.

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[Joelist]

They're dismantling the sideline - game over. Also Diggs in a towel makes it pretty clear.

[Destro]

Basketball heads. Didn't a basketball player collapse on the court and died? Want to say Celtics, but can be wrong.

[cinci4life]

Looks like they probably are calling it.

[Bengalitis]

The crowd should head home.

[BengalsLUFC]

Called it by the look of it.

Right decision now let’s see what happens

[*bfine32*]

(01-02-2023, 11:54 PM)Destro Wrote: Basketball heads. Didn't a basketball player collapse on the court and died? Want to say Celtics, but can be wrong.

hank Gathers in College

[*TheLeonardLeap*]

(01-02-2023, 11:50 PM)bengalfan74 Wrote: Could the Dale Earnhardt kinda injury be it ? I mean I know he wasn't going 190 MPH but something like it with the whiplash to neck/spine.

I don't think there was that kind of force involved. Also he popped right up and didn't grab his neck or back, and his helmeted head was being supported by his neck.