The L.A. TIMES goes with, "Thank heaven Damar Hamlin survived. We’re not so sure about the NFL." Damar Hamlin is "breathing on his own and football fans are breathing a sigh of relief." At the NFL offices, "league officials are also breathing a sigh of relief but perhaps not for the same reasons as everyone else." Commissioner Roger Goodell’s NFL is an "economic leviathan, by far the most popular sports league in the United States." Yet for "all its popularity as perhaps the last gasp of a uniting, monocultural force in the United States, football also exists on a rickety foundation." This is a sport that "fits hand in glove with a nation awash in violence."
More on Hamlin and the NFL:
- After an emotional week, NFL players return to the field.
- Meet Bills trainer Denny Kellington, who helped save Hamlin.
- N.Y. TIMES Magazine on the "existential crisis" of "Monday Night Football."
- Despite Hamlin scare, fans will still settle in to watch the NFL.
- Football is an "addiction," and even Hamlin "can’t make us quit."
- After this week, is it time to cheer for our NFL teams once again?
Also:
- Successful HBCU coaches unjustly ignored for big-time jobs.
- Mike Reilly retires as iconic triathlon voice: "You are an Ironman."
