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Originally Posted by wbbonneriii
I read each preseason a couple of deaths across the nation each year from high school / college level practicing in the early season heat. If you really dig you will find a ton of unfortunate deaths due to football.
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I get that. But this is the NFL. Their considerations for how to handle anything, much less a near-death incident during the live presentation of MNF, are magnitudes of difference in scale than some faceless kid in the middle of nowhere. That sounds harsh, but that's pretty much how the NFL would view it. Their POV. The biggest difference being that if a player dies on MNF, it's instantaneously a national event. It's one of the most watched events in the country. And it happens in real time.
By the time you first found out about that kid in NE or wherever, the kid had been dead three days. And as humans we automatically drop that information into the "bad news from recent past" file, and whatever emotional response you could have would be toned down by that many days. We're human, it happens.