I guess too many fans cried “Un-kill!”

While the effort is appreciated, the process itself should perhaps remain behind closed doors.

Like solving environmental puzzles.

I think most people making the comparisons do not possess the requisite knowledge of history to meaningfully differentiate between those two.

The interview was pretty short:

The second paragraph wasn’t necessarily directed at you. A lot of people went “but Alex Mack!!!!!”

http://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/massachusetts

Totally agree. I’m not saying they should’ve just jumped up and run off field like Ruffian in the match race. I’m only saying, if they viewed it as the last game, the championship game, a game they’d do anything to win, then they would’ve done whatever it took to avoid stopping the clock.

I dunno, man. I work a desk job (in Gramercy, in fact!). I don’t know your situation, but I think it’s really hard for someone like me to cast judgment on what someone who is tough enough to play in the NFL should do in the face of an injury.

Sigh. That was not your original argument, nor was it what I was responding to. You were making a moral argument that players shouldn’t be expected to deal with pushing past pain and injury to do what is best for the team’s chances of winning, but that happens ALL THE TIME in sports, especially one as brutal as…

And I don’t blame the injured players. Simple clock management by Kyle Shanahan would have put the Pats in a nigh unwinnable situation with or without the injury timeouts.

Fair enough, but calm down with the intensity and virtue signaling, please. These are all consenting adults and this is a sport where a player once amputated his finger to get back on the field. Safe to say that they view dealing with pain and injury in a different light than you or I.

Stop. You’re acting like he is a Nazi advocating ethnic cleansing. Football is a sport where regularly dealing with pain and injuries is a fact of life. You deal with them as compassionately as you can, but in the waning minutes of the Super Bowl when you’re trying to run out the clock, asking a player to get off the…

No it’s not.

Inhuman? Alex Mack was lining up to play with a fucking broken leg… You’d expect the rest of the Falcons to show a similar amount of spirit.

I kept thinking the same thing. It sounds bad to say it so bluntly, but it’s also just smart football.

This is the Super Bowl. It is absolutely the job of the players to have game and clock awareness, and to act accordingly when possible—including hopping off the field with a broken bone if need be. This is not devising “a strategy on the fly.” It is football 201.

Nah, Alex Mack played on a broken fucking leg, so it’s not too much to ask a guy with a mild ankle sprain to get off the field in the 4th quarter of the Super Bowl.

Because being crazy is cheaper than doing a ton of drugs.

This, however is Normal: