Post by sfvega on May 27, 2019 4:58:30 GMT -5
Decided to look up how sports have handled situations like this.
Chuck Hughes collapsed with one minute left of an NFL game, and was pronounced dead at the hospital. The game was played to its conclusion, and the players were told about his death afterwards.
Hank Gathers died from a heart condition during a NCAA basketball game and the commissioner suspended the game and shortly thereafter cancelled the whole tournament they were playing.
When Clint Malarchuk and Richard Zednik respectively suffered neck injuries in NHL, the games were stopped and only resumed once it was announced that they were in stable condition.
Yeah, that's what I went to. The Zednik thing, they finsihed the game but the player whose skate cut him (Olli Jokinen) said that they should have just called the game, and that there are more important things than sports. After that, you had the Rich Peverley incident where his heart stopped while he was on the bench during an NHL game, and they got him stabilized on the way to the hospital, and still called the game and finished it months later. The Hank Gathers game was called almost immediately. In the MLB, there was a Reds season opener (1990 IIRC) when the home plate umpire had a heart attack and died, and they called the game. There's a lot of incidents where the audience didn't clearly see something traumatic like a human being fall 70+ feet, and they still called it. I still think Vince is a shithead for not calling it, but the book on that guy has already been written. He's a knuckle-dragging dinosaur and the world will be better off when he's gone.
It's sad the way this ended, with an audio clip of Owen talking about how he always did everything in a way that would make his family and friends proud, and uphold the Hart legacy. Haunting knowing how many of his family members would get dirty and hateful in the wake of his tragic death. The Bruce and Stampede thing seemed really sleazy because that's been pretty well-reported, so you have to think something is there. I feel like Martha wanted justice, and most everyone else wanted other things, or justice AND other things. I understand the unenviable position that many were put in, but some of them got really ugly over money, or worse just the idea of possible paydays down the line. Putting money over family is just gross.