Shaming football fans for a tragic freak injury doesn't solve anything, writes ZacharyFaria
That is the direction Kurt Streeter took at the New York Times. You may recall that Streeter is the same sports writer who wildly overreacted to COVID and declared that college football’s national champion should have been a school that didn’t play its season in fear of COVID. Now, Streeter wants to shame NFL fans as “complicit” in the “violent spectacle” of football.
But while the Hamlin incident was undoubtedly tragic, it is not the norm. In fact, it has never happened in modern NFL history. Hamlin likely suffered from a case of commotio cordis as a result of the hit to the chest he took, and yet that same kind of hit occurs multiple times in every game, every season, every year. It is a routine football play, a regular feature of the game that does not regularly result in a player's heart stopping as Streeter wants you to believe.
And it should be noted that heart problems and players being pushed to the brink of death are not reserved for football either. Hockey player Chris Pronger suffered a similar injury to Hamlin in 1998, and no one will confuse hockey for a pacifist’s game. Soccer player Christian Eriksen collapsed on the field in June 2021 after going into cardiac arrest. In college basketball, Florida’s Keyontae Johnson collapsed on the court in December 2020.
— Andrew B July 8, 2022 Football is violent, yes. It always has been. No one has their head in the sand about head injuries anymore. Otherwise, Streeter may have a point. Fans are aware of the risks players take on every single play. Yet tragic accidents, anomalies that are few and far between, can still occur. They happen in every sport. If anything, it is a testament to the safety procedures that the NFL hadn’t seen anything like it until Hamlin’s injury.
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