re: Am I the only one that thinks the NFL handled the injury nearly flawlessly last night?

The decision to cancel the game or not was superfluous. All that mattered was getting Hamlin immediate care and off to the hospital. That all happened flawlessly from what we could tell.

The outrage over “they didn’t cancel the game fast enough” is insane. It got canceled in basically an hour with the commissioner not even there. Information had to be assessed and relayed through two teams plus the NFL and the NFLPA. It’s not like goodell was going to unilaterally snap his fingers and say game off the second the ambulance drove away. There’s a mountain of logistics to think about.

The great irony in all this will be if ESPN somehow tries to come after the NFL contract wise for not playing a major football game even though their on air talent was screaming to cancel the game. ESPN pays over a billion to broadcast like 17 total games. Each one matters more to them as far as the price per game than any other network I believe.