If you ever find yourself in a position where you are having to defend Skip Bayless, re-evaluate your life.

1 minute ago, D-Shiznit said:

If you ever find yourself in a position where you are having to defend Skip Bayless, re-evaluate your life.

Weren’t you the one last night declaring the entire world was ending because of this?

8 minutes ago, downundermike said:

97.5 discussing the situation last night, interesting thought.

If this happened in the Super Bowl, no way they don't finish the game.

But now they have set a precedence, and any time anything like this happens again, even in the Super Bowl, the game has to be be suspended.

Not sure.  Obviously the super bowl is a completely different animal which should have its own considerations. 

11 minutes ago, Iggles25 said:

Completely irrelevant given the seriousness of the situation, but what about fantasy situations with money on the line?

I think they just declare the game final and that’s the deal for all parties. Bengals get the w. You get the fantasy points you got in those seven or however many minutes. There is a chaos element to all bets and fantasy. You don’t get your money back if a player you bet sprains his ankle first play. I get this is more extreme, particularly if you had an offensive stack with one of these teams but in my mind that’s just the deal. Focus on the recovery of the young man and everything else is just done. 

1 minute ago, HazletonEagle said:

Not sure.  Obviously the super bowl is a completely different animal which should have its own considerations. 

In a way you’d have more options with the Super Bowl with it being the last game. 

5 minutes ago, BDawk_ASamuel said:

Any reputable sports book would offer refunds. If you use one out of Costa Rica that takes Western Union funds, that might be a little shadier. 

Not so sure about this. Sleeper isn’t. 

2 minutes ago, Allhaildawk said:

I think they just declare the game final and that’s the deal for all parties. Bengals get the w. You get the fantasy points you got in those seven or however many minutes. There is a chaos element to all bets and fantasy. You don’t get your money back if a player you bet sprains his ankle first play. I get this is more extreme, particularly if you had an offensive stack with one of these teams but in my mind that’s just the deal. Focus on the recovery of the young man and everything else is just done. 

They can not award the Bengals a win.  If they do not finish the game, there will not be a winner declared.

6 minutes ago, D-Shiznit said:

If you ever find yourself in a position where you are having to defend Skip Bayless, re-evaluate your life.

That's not really an argument. That's "X point comes from Y person, which means it must be bad" without evaluating whether or not it was actually bad. It's a pet peeve of mine and awful for discourse. Not everything morons say is going to be wrong and not everything wise people say is going to be right. But "Skip said it so it must be bad and wrong!" attitude is how people get vilified for no reason in the first place.

12 minutes ago, downundermike said:

97.5 discussing the situation last night, interesting thought.

If this happened in the Super Bowl, no way they don't finish the game.

But now they have set a precedence, and any time anything like this happens again, even in the Super Bowl, the game has to be be suspended.

I think the competition committee will have a thorough review of what to do in this situation. You are right though, the precedent is set.

3 minutes ago, downundermike said:

They can not award the Bengals a win.  If they do not finish the game, there will not be a winner declared.

I understand your point but up until yesterday you "couldn’t” suspend a game for injury. Novel situations require novel remedies at times. Ultimately it’s seeding concern anyway, which could be meaningless 

1 minute ago, Allhaildawk said:

I understand your point but up until yesterday you "couldn’t” suspend a game for injury. Novel situations require novel remedies at times. Ultimately it’s seeding concern anyway, which could be meaningless 

It was not an injury, it was on the verge of someone losing their life.  

6 minutes ago, Allhaildawk said:

Not so sure about this. Sleeper isn’t. 

Was more so referring to legitimate books like MGM, Fan Duel, Draft Kings, Barstool, Wynn, etc. What is Sleeper? 

3 minutes ago, Allhaildawk said:

ne. 

In a way you’d have more options with the Super Bowl with it being the last game. 

I think its less likely to move.

If you consider the cost that was just thrown away for a regular season game, from electricity, to stadium staffing, to traffic solutions, to fan expenses for tickets and travel arrangements, and on and on

Now you look at the super bowl and multiply that by god knows what factor. Especially for the planning and expenses of the host city. Theyre going to spend weeks or months cleaning up the city, local businesses planning for staffing increases to meet increased traffic to their business, police presence and other emergency personnel, increased staffing on public transportation, etc.

The NFL can almost be justified in saying- its the super bowl, we really cant move things around. Its not comparable to a regular season game.

 

33 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

That would be a home run for the NFL, all things considered of all the possible outcomes. 

I really hope they don't eliminate the bye week between the CG and SB. That seems like an overreaction which is more likely to be unfair to the rest of the NFL, than being unfair to just 2 teams. 

How does eliminating the bye week between the CG and SB unfair to the rest of the NFL?  

13 minutes ago, BDawk_ASamuel said:

Any reputable sports book would offer refunds. If you use one out of Costa Rica that takes Western Union funds, that might be a little shadier. 

I wager thru a Nigerian guy who sends random emails. 
 

Sound reputable, or no?

5 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:

I think its less likely to move.

If you consider the cost that was just thrown away for a regular season game, from electricity, to stadium staffing, to traffic solutions, to fan expenses for tickets and travel arrangements, and on and on

Now you look at the super bowl and multiply that by god knows what factor. Especially for the planning and expenses of the host city. Theyre going to spend weeks or months cleaning up the city, local businesses planning for staffing increases to meet increased traffic to their business, police presence and other emergency personnel, increased staffing on public transportation, etc.

The NFL can almost be justified in saying- its the super bowl, we really cant move things around. Its not comparable to a regular season game.

 

I think they delay even a Super Bowl. The PR hit would be catastrophic, hundreds of millions of people watching a dude collapse with no pulse. On Dan Patrick today he said he knows people on the front offices who said the teams would have struggled to continue even if they were forced to. Nobody wanted to be there anymore

3 minutes ago, EagleJoe8 said:

I wager thru a Nigerian guy who sends random emails. 
 

Sound reputable, or no?

Only way to figure out is to give him your social security number and mother's maiden name. 

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-31/twitter-sued-for-nonpayment-of-rent-on-san-francisco-office

 

Rent was due

2 minutes ago, EagleJoe8 said:

I wager thru a Nigerian guy who sends random emails. 
 

Sound reputable, or no?

Hey it’s me, your Nigerian commissioner…send me your wagers please 

3 minutes ago, Aerolithe_Lion said:

I think they delay even a Super Bowl. The PR hit would be catastrophic, hundreds of millions of people watching a dude collapse with no pulse. On Dan Patrick today he said he knows people on the front offices who said the teams maybe couldn’t have continued even if they were forced to. Nobody wanted to be there anymore

someone brought up wrestle mania last night where Owen Hart died. The show went on. There is actually a precedent set for a major event already.

Its different than a regular season game, which is comparable to any regular week of monday night raw. Wrestle Mania is the WWE super bowl with an entire weekend long host of events. 

Vince McMahon isnt a great model to follow. But, the precedent is out there now.

23 minutes ago, NCiggles said:

I think the knock on Ringo is his agility.  

You'd lack some agility at 82 yourself...

I don't think people need to worry about "setting a precedent" for what do do following someone essentially dying mid game. I think that's something you can handle on a case by case basis. 

4 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:

someone brought up wrestle mania last night where Owen Hart died. The show went on. There is actually a precedent set for a major event already.

Wasn’t wrestlemania, and I think professional wrestling in the 90’s vs the NFL in the social media climate of today couldn’t be further apart. I wouldn’t even be surprised if Vince Mcmahon made sure the crowd and the audience at home had no idea it was as serious as it was, and people thought he was going to be okay(relatively) in the moment.

 

It’s all hypotheticals and personal opinions, but I think they have to postpone a SB in those conditions, even if they’re against it

1 minute ago, DEagle7 said:

I don't think people need to worry about "setting a precedent" for what do do following someone essentially dying mid game. I think that's something you can handle on a case by case basis. 

Sort of agree...I'm not sure there would be an NFL if this happened enough to have to have a protocol in place

3 minutes ago, Iggles_Phan said:

How does eliminating the bye week between the CG and SB unfair to the rest of the NFL?  

Because any team that's in it now will have to travel, due all the media appearances, do media row, do interviews, practice, game plan, and whatever else all in less than a week. NFL isn't going to back off anything and they are going to force 2 weeks worth of things into 6 days. And if say its the Eagles/Chiefs, why do they have to go through that if Bengals/Bills didn't even make it, thus making the postponement of the playoffs ultimately pointless. 

I know that sounds petty, but this is under the premise of delaying the playoffs just to squabble about the 2/3 seed. If #1 seed is still up in the air that changes things. 

18 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:

Not sure.  Obviously the super bowl is a completely different animal which should have its own considerations. 

 

3 minutes ago, DEagle7 said:

I don't think people need to worry about "setting a precedent" for what do do following someone essentially dying mid game. I think that's something you can handle on a case by case basis. 

You are likely right... but let's hope and pray that we never have to find out what they'd end up doing.