>Suddenly, the big “existential” questions about football that we prefer not to think too hard about came crashing through our blockades of denial: Should a civilized culture really be sanctioning this? Can a game played by men of such size and speed ever be safe?

Continue to the article if you need an apology for continuing to watch America's most grusome spectacle.

I'm not a big fan of the NFL but I don't think what happened to Hamlin can be totally blamed on football. As a survivor of sudden cardiac arrest myself, I expect we are going to learn that he had a heart arrhythmia problem that he may not have been aware of. He knows it now, he may get an ICD (defibrillator) and probably has played his last game. Celebrate that he survived without looking to place blame on something nobody could've foreseen.

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I’d say MMA is a bit more gruesome

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This article was evidently written by someone who takes themselves too seriously (and also isn’t a sports fan). There are lots of legitimate criticisms about the NFL, but cardiac arrest during athletics is something that happens in basically every sport. Running, swimming, soccer, basketball, motorsports, hockey, etc. You can find many examples of these including at the professional level.

This is yet another stupid self-righteous “story” to make the reader feel better than other people by shaking their fists at the clouds.

Holy shit this is the corniest thing I’ve ever seen on a sports subreddit. There is nothing gruesome about the nfl lol

That diatribe just oozes with self-loathing east coast liberal intellectual snobbery.

The facts are on-field cardiac arrest has happened twice in 52 years. With COVID infections being a dismal fact of life now, the training staff now drills for cardiac events. I only wish that every cardiac arrest was as competently attended to as this one was.

I'm not impressed by much, but those trainers were damn impressive.

When your older you’ll get it bro

Would you care to elaborate

Apparently it’s racist to some too.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/damar-hamlins-collapse-highlights-the-violence-black-men-experience-in-football/

Unbelievable how people take others adversity as an opportunity to soapbox their own opinions so self-righteously.

Funny they don’t stigmatize these young men’s autonomy. Or are they?

It’s someone that wanted to write about NFL violence and they’re using Hamlin as their angle it’s intellectually dishonest