LinvilleGorge

Consider this

That seems super promising giving the situation.

Yeah, I just don't see how this game ever gets played/finished.

If it comes out that they actually tried to restart this game and the players and coaches had to step in and say hell no, Goodell is done. The outcry for his head on a stick will be too much to ignore. You'll ha e a ton of corporate sponsors stepping in to put the pressure of the wallet on the league.

Not sure what the NFL protocol would be here, but I won't be shocked if this game is ultimately just flat out cancelled and registered as a tie. This late in the season I don't see how they can squeeze it in even if they wanted to.

This could be Goodell's undoing. Other than trying to force these guys back into the field the NFL couldn't have handled this any worse.

ESPN heavily speculating that it was the players and coaches that called this thing off.

Yep, zero judgements on the fans. I think ESPN handled it as well as they could. The NFL fuging botched it on their end.

Many of them were likely waiting on an official update on the player.

Goodell. The NFL's policy on these situations has already been posted. It's his call.

Yeah, it really is. You can figure out the logistics on the back end.

You missed it then.

temporarily suspended isn't postponed

Damn. Booger Farland just went IN on the NFL. I didn't catch exactly what he said but basically insinuated they don't give a fug about the players and "that's just how they run their business".

Literally all they had to do was say the game is postponed and all thoughts are with Damar Hamlin and family. Period.

This game is over. There's players sans uniform. In trying to avoid a PR disaster the NFL has created one.

They're just trying to figure out how to spin this from a PR perspective. They're probably on the phone with every major corporate sponsor. This is a full-blown CYA effort right now and it's seriously tacky. All they gotta do is just come out and say that the game is postponed, an update will be provided at a later time and all thoughts are with Damar Hamlin and his family at this time.

No news does not feel like good news here.

She's done that a couple of times tonight.

It looks bad enough on the NFL that they haven't already officially called this off. Feels like they're probably just scrambling with corporate sponsors and PR folks on how to handle this.

McD came out and talked to the refs for about two minutes. Wouldn't be surprised if he was telling them ain't no fuging way his team is taking the field again tonight, league decision be damned.

Not on the broadcast, but yeah that's the armchair MD speculation.

Okay, it wasn't on ESPN. They were just showing a shot of the jumbotron in the stadium. Just to clarify and be fair.

That was pretty fuging tacky of ESPN putting a disclaimer message up that the game is temporarily suspended... with three corporate sponsor ads tacked onto it.

Just postpone the game. This is ridiculous. You can't ask these guys to keep playing after that.