I’ve seen that Hamlin is on IR and the Bills said they will pay his whole salary.
On Sun, Jan 8, 2023 at 6:54 PM Doug Fields <[email protected]> wrote: > Where did you hear that about salaries while on IR? That's not true, as I > understand it. The Collective Bargaining Agreement between the players' > union and the NFL guarantees a player is paid their full contract if the > player suffers a "football-related injury" (defined as any injury > associated with game play or practice/workouts at the team's facilities) > that puts them on the injured list. Players who can't play due to > non-football-related injuries can be denied their full pay at the team's > discretion. > > Hamlin's injury would definitely fall under the football-related > definition, and he should be paid his full salary if he's placed on the > Injured Reserve list (I'm not sure if his official roster status has been > changed yet at this point). > > Doug Fields > Tampa, FL > > ------------------------------ > *From:* 'David Bruggeman' via TVorNotTV <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Sunday, January 8, 2023 10:58 AM > *To:* [email protected] <[email protected]> > *Subject:* Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: How ESPN Covered MNF Medical Emergency > > A brief check of the NFL home page this morning echoes this approach. A > lot of organized celebration to make it look like the league isn't patting > itself on the back for avoiding worse optics. That the Bills are doing a > lot to recognize Hamlin makes sense to me. The league-wide celebrations > push this into contrivance for me. > > And today I learned that standard contracts (not sure if this is just for > the first/rookie contract or not) are set up so a player on injured reserve > doesn't get full salary. If I didn't already wish ill of the NFL, I would > now. > > David > > On Sunday, January 8, 2023 at 07:06:55 AM PST, PGage <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > I gave ESPN good marks for how they handled Damar Hamlin’s dramatic and > life threatening injury last Monday Night. I give them much lower marks for > how they handled Saturday’s games. With the very welcome news of positive > developments for Hamlin (who still has a long way to go), ESPN switched > from the restrained, minimalist journalistic stance they took Monday night > to the full throated, sentimental, religiously transformative propaganda > line that no doubt was set in the PR offices of the NFL. Joe Buck seemed to > go as far as to suggest that the injury was actually a net good thing, as > Hamlin’s recovery has been a unifying force for the nation, while Aikman > proclaimed that Hamlin’s recovery was due to the power of prayer. > > One of my concerns is that this incident almost certainly really was a > freak accident, less a function of the inherent violence in football than > unusual timing and location of the contact during that tackle, or perhaps > some unrecognized heart defect (this seems less likely to me). As a result > it will be easy to write off all the dangers associated with football as > part of the random dangers inherent in any activity. What is needed is a > renewed and sustained focus on the very real, very serious, very high > health risks associated specifically with tackle football. Of course > neither ESPN nor any of the League’s other broadcast partners (and here the > genius of the NFL partnering with almost every major outlet) has any > business interest in focusing on that. > > > https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/07/business/espn-nfl-damar-hamlin.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare > > > On Tue, 3 Jan 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 > > -- > 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/CAKGtkY%2BxoZd4%2BS6wrO2ozS_r0YZA6XCENogrhcVvgwpKZfUJwQ%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkY%2BxoZd4%2BS6wrO2ozS_r0YZA6XCENogrhcVvgwpKZfUJwQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > -- > 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/1221494318.3892092.1673193533259%40mail.yahoo.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/1221494318.3892092.1673193533259%40mail.yahoo.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > -- > 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/BN6PR14MB1619CECA725F5397AC43C03AC6F99%40BN6PR14MB1619.namprd14.prod.outlook.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/BN6PR14MB1619CECA725F5397AC43C03AC6F99%40BN6PR14MB1619.namprd14.prod.outlook.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. 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