My brother is the biggest pro football fan I’ve ever encountered; he said the events of last night were the beginning of the end of football. I’d like to think he is correct, however we are a nation that experiences a mass shooting nearly every day, but does nothing to limit guns. America simply doesn’t care if football players live or die, as long as they have a game to watch.
The only thing I saw that was potentially noteworthy was that the decision to end the game came from he coaches; the NFL allegedly wanted the game to resume shortly after the dying man was removed from the field. That’s very telling. On Tue, Jan 3, 2023 at 8:34 AM PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > I am no cheerleader for the NFL, ESPN, or Joe Buck, but I give Buck, > Aikman and ESPN generally positive marks for how they handled an > unprecedented medical emergency during last night’s MNF telecast. > > As the severity of the incident became clear they were respectful and > restrained, and avoided speculation. When there wasn’t anything to say, > they noted that, and didn’t say anything. I thought it was smart to switch > to the studio and let those people fill time, rather than than have the > broadcasters on site do that. sideline reporter Lisa Salter really > distinguished herself, reporting what she could observe, filtering out what > must have been a flood of rumors and speculation, all while allowing her > humanity and emotion to appropriately come through. > > One problem with the restraint they showed is it created a vacuum into > which anti-vax poison got injected over social media. Qualified physicians > could tell what had likely happened, but I think ESPN was right not to put > one of those on, and instead restrict themselves to what was actually known. > > Hoping for the best for Damar Hamlin, and all the young people who had to > experience that. Until you actually witness medical professions engage in > life saving intervention, it is difficult to prepare yourself for what it > is like, and the sense that you might be watching someone you care about > die. I am often critical of cliched provision of mental health counselors > to the scene of emergencies, but this is a case where some of those folks > are going to need someone to talk to. > > “The eerie and heartbreaking scene that unfolded on the field in the > aftermath of Damar Hamlin’s collapse during Monday night’s Buffalo > Bills-Cincinnati Bengals game presented a virtually unprecedented scenario > for ESPN’s football broadcast. As the network toggled between the game > broadcast crew in Cincinnati and a subdued studio set in New York, a news > outlet that had prepared to cover one of the season’s biggest games > suddenly found itself covering a medical calamity. > > Viewers at home watched the developing story unfold slowly as commentators > Joe Buck and Troy Aikman and sideline reporter Lisa Salters received > information and relayed it in real time. Over the next three hours, the > broadcast was measured, informative and emotional. Analysts, hosts and > reporters tried to make sense of a lengthy delay and an initial report that > play would resume; grappled with the obvious severity of the injury; and > then finally made impassioned appeals for the game to be suspended for the > night, a choice the NFL eventually made.” > > > https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2023/01/02/espn-damar-hamlin-bengals-bills/ > -- > Sent from Gmail Mobile > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkYJ0VNdgyyU5Rjuxmk2YUTuwO%3DK6gYke6An%3D60Qr3dG08w%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkYJ0VNdgyyU5Rjuxmk2YUTuwO%3DK6gYke6An%3D60Qr3dG08w%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKgmY4A2-p%3D0tbPb40-vBoWy7%2B9bz7AqTJ6D%3Dv8N9%2BNBRS3w-A%40mail.gmail.com.
