Call me a heartless bastard but I think the decision to cancel that game was an overreaction. Yes Hamlin was injured, did it solve anything to cancel the game, no. There have been worse injuries in the past but never a cancelled game. Nobody is really sure that the injury was related to football, just a freak accident.
Not to be disagreeable but, for one night or one game, football reacted to something the “right” way. No one knew why young Hamlin collapsed. As replay after replay was watched, it was obvious that no player, not even Hamlin himself, did anything to cause his young heart to STOP. BUT, stop, it did and, for one game, one night, the football world froze. For one strange night two cities became one, two teams became one, Everybody became human beings, caring fearful human beings. I was watching the game on television and it shook me to the core when I realized that, in truth, this young man, for a period of time, was simply NOT ALIVE. Overreaction? No, I don’t think so.
Call me a heartless bastard but I think the decision to cancel that game was an overreaction. Yes Hamlin was injured, did it solve anything to cancel the game, no. There have been worse injuries in the past but never a cancelled game. Nobody is really sure that the injury was related to football, just a freak accident.
Not to be disagreeable but, for one night or one game, football reacted to something the “right” way. No one knew why young Hamlin collapsed. As replay after replay was watched, it was obvious that no player, not even Hamlin himself, did anything to cause his young heart to STOP. BUT, stop, it did and, for one game, one night, the football world froze. For one strange night two cities became one, two teams became one, Everybody became human beings, caring fearful human beings. I was watching the game on television and it shook me to the core when I realized that, in truth, this young man, for a period of time, was simply NOT ALIVE. Overreaction? No, I don’t think so.