The nightmare scenario for the NFL had arrived. On the New Year holiday while the country was enjoying a half-century-old mass ritual known as Monday Night Football, America felt it in the pit of its stomach. It was as awful as you’d ever imagine. Worse, even.
Millions of people—including so many families, with kids taking in one last sports distraction before returning to school from winter break—were left watching Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin fighting for his life near the 50-yard line on Jan. 2. As
