[lex24]

https://www.newyorker.com/sports/sportin...MNYR012019

An opinion base written by someone who has never participated in a competitive event.  Competitive sports of any stripe involves risk, from bicycling to boxing.  The author conveniently overlooks this was a very unusual event, perhaps not even related to the tackle. Pete Maravich comes to mind as an example this could have been caused by a undetected medical condition.

Perhaps do your research first next time. From a quick Google search:

Thomas played for school and club teams herself, competing in softball, swimming, and tennis. She took tennis seriously, but not to the level of the top high-school players.

And she's hardly on an island with that take:

We’re All Complicit in the N.F.L.’s Violent Spectacle

Yep, should have taken a deep dive.  That said, tennis and swimming hardly compare to soccer, rugby, field hockey, basketball and host of other sports when it comes to contact. 

The tackle was not exceptional except for the result.  There are at least a dozen tackles every game that are more violent than this.

Football is a violent game.  No question.  But what happened to Damar Hamlin is more likely to occur in baseball - by a batter getting hit with a pitch in the chest. This was an AWFUL occurrence.  And we all hope and pray for him to recover. But it was a fluke.  To use it as an example relating to the impact of football’s violence is a testament to the authors ignorance or bias.

https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=126084&page=1

(I apologize for the inserted ads. Would remove them if I knew how,)

[lex24]

https://www.newyorker.com/sports/sportin...MNYR012019

An opinion base written by someone who has never participated in a competitive event.  Competitive sports of any stripe involves risk, from bicycling to boxing.  The author conveniently overlooks this was a very unusual event, perhaps not even related to the tackle. Pete Maravich comes to mind as an example this could have been caused by a undetected medical condition.

Perhaps do your research first next time. From a quick Google search:

Thomas played for school and club teams herself, competing in softball, swimming, and tennis. She took tennis seriously, but not to the level of the top high-school players.

And she's hardly on an island with that take:

We’re All Complicit in the N.F.L.’s Violent Spectacle

Yep, should have taken a deep dive.  That said, tennis and swimming hardly compare to soccer, rugby, field hockey, basketball and host of other sports when it comes to contact. 

The tackle was not exceptional except for the result.  There are at least a dozen tackles every game that are more violent than this.

Football is a violent game.  No question.  But what happened to Damar Hamlin is more likely to occur in baseball - by a batter getting hit with a pitch in the chest. This was an AWFUL occurrence.  And we all hope and pray for him to recover. But it was a fluke.  To use it as an example relating to the impact of football’s violence is a testament to the authors ignorance or bias.

https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=126084&page=1

(I apologize for the inserted ads. Would remove them if I knew how,)