[CornFed]

"It is a counterfactual question, so, of course, we can never know the answer definitively."

This is, of course, right up our collective alley.  This could add another 20 pages to this thread, easily.

Elway was playing in a different era and I'm not sure it would even OCCUR to a player in those circumstances not to play.  If Elway were in that position today, I would speculate that he would play.  It would be much closer to a toss-up, however.

[CornFed]

"It is a counterfactual question, so, of course, we can never know the answer definitively."

This is, of course, right up our collective alley.  This could add another 20 pages to this thread, easily.

Elway was playing in a different era and I'm not sure it would even OCCUR to a player in those circumstances not to play.  If Elway were in that position today, I would speculate that he would play.  It would be much closer to a toss-up, however.