This situation really makes me emotional. I pray he will be fine in the future, I don't care if he ever plays for us again, his life is at stake here.
Now if the team wanted to continue that I am fine with, if the coach gave them orders that I don't like at all. As I understand it the team basically decided, could be wrong.
It’s really awful. Heartbreaking.
With regard to playing on, all they knew at the moment was that he was down and it looked serious, but he was also alive and getting immediate treatment. No one except the medical team working on him would know anything for some time. We - the public - still don’t.
In such moments of grief I think about what the deceased, or in this case the crisis victim, would say if he could. My guess is, “Play on.” There wasn’t anything any of them could do beyond prayer, which they did. I don’t see how anyone would regard the game as meaningful except as honoring Johnson. Under those circumstances it was an exercise of character which they accomplished with great heart.
There will be time to grieve, time to respond. Tragedy is a hard fact of life and when it strikes, those who can must play on.
