The story is a sad one. Why would NFL referees invite some random 6-year-old to run up and down the field with them? They were the first problem.
Imagine if that 6-year-old got injured while running around on a field they had no real business being on. I’m sure this mother would be suing everybody for a dangerous environment for her child.
What if the father had had his hard attack when he was handing his child down onto the field, or picking the child up off the field (the story never says WHO it was who did this, so I could assume it was the father). Would she then have sued them for not providing convenient field access for her child?
Do these officials invite every 6-year-old who shows up 2 hours before the game to come and run around the field?
Of course the security guard is going to ask what is happening. And the father should not be arguing with the security guard, but rather trying to find the NFL official who supposedly invited the child onto the field.
I can well imagine being that security guard, and asking the father why he just put his child onto the field without a proper pass.
I can imagine the father, rather than understanding this, to start berating the guard, calling him names, which would lead the guard to argue with the father.
how sad that a 6-year old cannot be invited onto the field without concerns of law suits... they were there early and were shown a privilege... favor... how awful that a stupid security guard made a special moment very ugly... even if he did not cause the father’s death...