{"id":535926,"date":"2023-01-06T04:56:52","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T01:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/foolish-to-think-damar-hamlin-incident-will-bring-civility-to-nfl\/"},"modified":"2023-01-06T04:56:52","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T01:56:52","slug":"foolish-to-think-damar-hamlin-incident-will-bring-civility-to-nfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/foolish-to-think-damar-hamlin-incident-will-bring-civility-to-nfl\/","title":{"rendered":"#Foolish to think Damar Hamlin incident will bring civility to NFL"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3584b753b7e\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3584b753b7e\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/foolish-to-think-damar-hamlin-incident-will-bring-civility-to-nfl\/#%E2%80%9CFoolish_to_think_Damar_Hamlin_incident_will_bring_civility_to_NFL%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Foolish to think Damar Hamlin incident will bring civility to NFL&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CFoolish_to_think_Damar_Hamlin_incident_will_bring_civility_to_NFL%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Foolish to think Damar Hamlin incident will bring civility to NFL&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n            <\/aside>\n<p>At this point you know the drill by heart: \u201cOur thoughts and prayers go out.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis puts everything into perspective.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Save it. Better yet, pour it on your pancakes. Don\u2019t sell that maudlin junk to us. We know better.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Damar Hamlin nearly died on a football field \u2014 a Monday night prime-time TV football field \u2014 and those platitudes will restore civility and humanity to football? Stop. Please, just stop.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Consider that the 9\/11 terrorist attacks, which left 3,000 murdered, involuntarily caused many to treat even strangers with kindness. That lasted a week or two. Now look at us. With our new and improved perspectives, we\u2019re worse to one another than ever.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The day before he was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, Elvin Bethea said he no longer watched football because, \u201cIt looks like pro wrestling.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bethea, a career Houston Oiler, said those words in 2003.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To \u201cput everything into perspective,\u201d football (indeed, virtually all our sports) has been in steady <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a> decline for decades, a dare for the decent to sustain their interest, while young, stupid gamblers are targeted to take their places, enticed like lemmings to take the big fall as the new most-favored sports fans.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And you can spend all week reading the vulgar, semiliterate put-downs and challenges issued on social media by the self-smitten athletes who aren\u2019t wise enough to stay away from such fools\u2019 bait and seem eager to prove that their \u201cstudent-athlete\u201d days were a scam.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/damar-hamlin-054-3.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Bills safety Damar Hamlin (3) falls to the turf during a game against the Bengals on Jan. 2, 2023.\" class=\"wp-image-25251777\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/damar-hamlin-054-3.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/damar-hamlin-054-3.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/damar-hamlin-054-3.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Bills safety Damar Hamlin (3) falls to the turf during a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> against the Bengals on Jan. 2, 2023.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Deshaun Watson doesn\u2019t \u201cput everything into perspective\u201d?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Consider the football action last week, prior to Hamlin\u2019s stunning collapse:\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>During the Michigan-TCU Fiesta Bowl on Saturday, ESPN found and focused on, for national enjoyment and <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>roval, a \u201cfan\u201d wearing a T-shirt that \u201ccleverly\u201d referenced serial murderer Jeffrey Dahmer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u200aDuring the Colts-Giants game Sunday on CBS, Indianapolis QB Nick Foles was knocked out of the game, removed by medical cart, after a tackle by Kayvon Thibodeaux.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As Foles writhed on the turf in agony, his ribs blindsided by Thibodeaux, the Giants\u2019 rookie who afterwards continued to boast that he\u2019s \u201ca savage,\u201d lay inches from Foles performing a \u201csnow angel\u201d in asinine and excessive self-celebration.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And if Thibodeaux didn\u2019t yet realize that he\u2019d disabled Foles, he knew by the time he was on the sideline, still in full self-celebration mode as he proudly made a gesture to demonstrate that he had put Foles to sleep. \u201cLook, everyone! I\u2019m a remorseless creep!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Any right-minded observer would have expressed disgust with Thibodeaux. But TV is where gutless panderers gather, those who\u2019d rather insult their audiences rather than the most offensive. Thus Kevin Harlan and Trent Green said not a discouraging word.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/damar.web_.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25258588\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/damar.web_.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/damar.web_.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/giants-colts-2.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Giants' Kayvon Thibodeaux makes snow angels on the field after sacking Colts quarterback Nick Foles on Jan. 1, 2023.\" class=\"wp-image-25210878\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/giants-colts-2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/giants-colts-2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/giants-colts-2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Giants\u2019 Kayvon Thibodeaux makes snow angels on the field after sacking Colts quarterback Nick Foles on Jan. 1, 2023.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">CBS via Twitter<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Harlan, as usual, sounded overly pumped, reciting a mini-bio of Thibodeaux as if we\u2019d just seen something wonderful.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Once, Thibodeaux would have been flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct, but Roger Goodell, another pandering backwards-minded commissioner, years ago lifted the ban on such \u201ccelebrations\u201d as expressions of \u201cnatural enthusiasm.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>And look what that rot has brought: a steady corrosion of conduct among college-delivered professionals; games lost to all-about-me misbehavior. Goodell\u2019s consistent. Look what he has done to Super Bowl halftime shows.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If you must continue to root for Thibodeaux because he\u2019s a rising Giants\u2019 star, go ahead, knock yourself out. How else do you indulge modern sports unless your good senses are violated and compromised?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Near the end of the second quarter, with the Colts down, 21-3 and about to fall to 4-11-1, Giants QB Daniel Jones threw incomplete into the end zone. Indy DB Dallis Flowers took full, TV-op credit, standing frozen, his arms folded in self-satisfaction like Mussolini on the balcony.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Again, Harlan and Green played stupid \u2014 scared stupid \u2014 as if we hadn\u2019t noticed Flowers\u2019 incredulous act.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Top of the third quarter. Giants WR Darius Slayton fumbled it away after a catch. CBS then struck gold!\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"784\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/20230103NYGPract1465RS.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Kayvon Thibodeaux\" class=\"wp-image-25258856\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/20230103NYGPract1465RS.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/20230103NYGPract1465RS.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/20230103NYGPract1465RS.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/20230103NYGPract1465RS.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Kayvon Thibodeaux refuses to apologize for his snow-angel celebration while Nick Foles was injured. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Robert Sabo for the NY POST<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It found video of Giants head coach Brian Daboll hollering, \u201cWhat the f\u2013k!,\u201d so CBS played it \u2014 in slow motion \u2014 to ensure that everyone got a good, clean, unmistakable view.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That puts everything in perspective? Whereas TV networks once would apologize if a player or coach were heard or seen clearly mouthing a profanity \u2014 or at least ignore it as a matter of righteous comportment \u2014 that now is displayed and replayed as \u201ccan\u2019t-miss\u201d sports moments.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>CBS again cut away from on-field shots of teams preparing for the snap on third-and-important in favor of irrelevant crowd shots, including those that showed fans, beer in one hand, pounding on the down-low padding.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the Jets-Seahawks game that followed on Fox, the goal apparently was to show every attention-starved fool in the stands, painted and dressed to be seen and make a scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But TV now regularly chooses to show nothing over something, as if the directors, if seated in the stands, would search for drunken clowns rather than watch the game.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"no\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/playlist.megaphone.fm\/?e=NYPH6082661635&amp;light=true\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>l\u200aIn the first quarter, Seattle\u2019s Quandre Diggs made an interception near the goal line. He began to run it back and, still running and well in-bounds, raised the ball with one hand over his head in absurd, dangerous, sense-defying self-glory.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But not only didn\u2019t Fox analyst Robert Smith question Diggs\u2019 wisdom, he complimented the interception as the Seahawk having \u201cplayed it smartly.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u200aThe next night, \u201cthoughts and prayers\u201d for Hamlin, as that \u201cputs everything into perspective.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>Players are now going to cease their joyous blood-dancing after brutal, dangerous, knockout hits? Coaches are going to demand tackling rather than anti-personnel shots? TV and radio game announcers are going to cease praising the most proudly vicious players due to their absence of \u201cperspective\u201d?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By Tuesday morning the demand was out to fire Fox Sports 1\u2019s Skip Bayless for a tweet he posted during the Hamlin calamity. Bayless often has been on the wrong side of common sense as he seems eager to make a stir rather than sense. You can now make a great living in sports TV and radio from such a transparent plan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But Bayless\u2019 opinion Monday night included some practical application of the NFL\u2019s ways, means and thought processes:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo doubt the NFL is considering postponing the rest of this game \u2014 but how? This late in the season, a game of this magnitude is crucial to the regular-season outcome \u2026 which suddenly seems so irrelevant.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Off with his head!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Among those calling for Bayless\u2019 immediate termination for insensitivity \u2014 employing expletives to support their sensitive positions \u2014 were ex-NFLers Dez Bryant and Terrell Owens and former NBAer Matt Barnes. All were talented but expendable, transient players \u2014 because they were insufferable humans.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The three spent their careers as repugnant, selfish misanthropes, bringing their sports and professions into disrepute. Of course, all three became immediate candidates to host, co-host or guest star on TV, radio and podcasts, more unneeded evidence of a world gone nuts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But this week they were quoted by media, local and national, as sage, thoughtful men, all worthy of their insights, not a word of their previous perpetual personal misconduct.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A clearer, improved perspective? Whose? How? For how long? As those with a genuine, learned, applicable perspective know by now, not a chance.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Better yet, pour it on your pancakes. Don\u2019t sell that maudlin junk to us. We know better.\u00a0 Damar Hamlin nearly died on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":535927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/newspress-collage-25258301-1672969256279.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&1672951506&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[138036,137964,75282,124141],"class_list":["post-535926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-1-5-23","tag-damar-hamlin","tag-equal-time","tag-kayvon-thibodeaux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}