I’ve spent a lot of time in this area trying to understand the nature of fandom, the appeal of sports, and where they fit into our lives. Perhaps less accurately, fandom is part of something, part of a group, the attraction of belonging, and that sports act as a distraction or bubble. and service. I know it’s not, but it can feel like that for 3 hours anytime.
There are so many things that go into what happened Dummer Hamlin on Monday night. Most jarringly, the small groups we’ve divided ourselves into to gain a sense of belonging and the bubble we’ve created around them have apparently been utterly shattered. , it is even harder to accept the fragility of life. Spend most of your life ignoring or trying to ignore and slap us all.
It’s not soccer.like it wasn’t soccer Christian Eriksen went bankrupt at Euro 2021. Just like it wasn’t hockey that Gilli Fisher, Rich Peverley, and Jay Baumeister went down, and it wasn’t basketball that Hank Gathers died on the court. No other sport is so accustomed to arranging stretchers and ambulances, so you may find out later that they are connected. We, who are used to it, can’t help but wonder if the people involved, who should have been similarly absent-minded, originally wanted to restart the game. Even if all this feels very different, it’s their natural reflection.
The soccer field is not a ready environment to see young men and women, and those at the peak of their health to be professional athletes, stop their hearts. There’s no setting that you’re likely to be prepared for that sort of thing. And a reminder of how quickly it can fade away is not what we were built to wield.It’s not just soccer players ignoring injuries and health threats on Sunday We all do this to varying degrees in our daily lives. It would be much harder to get to his 7-11 at the Sixer if he kept thinking about what would happen along the way.
It can be hard to tell, but there are good things about the exhibits. The composure and determination of the EMT and training staff. Love from teammates and opponents. Donations flooded Hamlin’s toy drive in the aftermath. We took the professionalism of ESPN’s broadcasters, analysts and reporters down and handled it as best we could. Tell what they have, don’t delve into speculation, don’t be afraid to convey the feeling of the moment, don’t be brutal.
Of course, there is also the bad side of the world and human nature. I’m not going to give him the merit of saying his name because that’s what he wants. Further down the scale of despicable are people using this to transfer totally unrelated and grotesque agendas.
The nature of employment and employers and their relationship, too, in the first stage, when it seemed that the game would be resumed against everyone’s objections, these players were all emotionless automatons, and far more Appeared to fulfill the player’s wishes with the ability. power and influence over them. And once and for all, sanity wins.
It was all there and it was all too much. None of us are built to take it all in at once. But sometimes we all get hit by it in the blink of an eye, and when it happens on national television it feels even bigger than if it were one of us.
Pause. Thankfully both the Bengals and Bills had to pause too. They probably won’t last long enough, but they’ll get something. life resumes. That’s life and that’s what it is on this planet.
