And if I recall, the hit was in an EXHIBITION game. Makes it even more incomprehensible.
Just curious, why would you call this hit and its consequence “incomprehensible”?
It was a legal, tremendous, vicious football hit. Yes it was in an exhibition. So what? Football is football! Believe me, players are playing just as hard as in a real game (sometimes harder cause a lot of guys are fighting for their football life). Shit happens when players converge like this, whether game, practice, exhibition, or whatever.
Everyone who plays knows it could happen to them anytime in the course of a game or practice. Nobody wants what happened to Stingley (and others) to happen at the their hands—not even Tatum who was definitely one of the greatest, hardest hitters of all time. But please have no doubt about it—they still want to be the baddest MFers on the field.
That’s football. It can’t be any more comprehensible in my opinion.