Sports personality Skip Bayless is taking major heat after he questioned how the NFL can postpone the rest of Monday Night Football’s game “this late in the season.”
Bayless’s comments came in the wake of the NFL’s decision to postpone the rest of the game between the Buffalo Bills and Cincinnati Bengals after Bills safety Damar Hamlin collapsed to the ground following a tackle. The game, which was only in its first quarter, paused for more than an hour, and players from both teams were visibly distraught, with both star quarterbacks on the verge of tears.
BUFFALO BILLS SAFETY DAMAR HAMLIN COLLAPSES ON FIELD AFTER SCARY HIT, PLAYERS LEFT IN TEARS
The Bills, at 12-3, and the Bengals, at 11-4, are seen by most people as two of the three best teams in the AFC. Bayless thus questioned how a game of such enormity could be postponed.
“No doubt the NFL is considering postponing the rest of this game – but how? This late in the season, a game of this magnitude is crucial to the regular-season outcome … which suddenly seems so irrelevant,” the co-host of Fox Sports’s Undisputed said.
Bayless continues to face criticism for focusing on the game and the sport rather than the health of Hamlin, who, fortunately, appears to have his vitals back to normal but still needs a breathing tube down his throat.
Responses to the TV personality’s tweet were strong and swift.
“WTF is wrong with you. A man is fighting for his life. Football doesn’t f***** matter right now,” one reply says.
Another, from former NFL tight end and two-time champion at USC Alex Holmes, reads, “You are a despicable old man. Shame on you.”
Less than an hour later, Bayless sent out another tweet, apologizing and seeming to walk back his original statement.
“Nothing is more important than that young man’s health. That was the point of my last tweet. I’m sorry if that was misunderstood but his health is all that matters. Again, everything else is irrelevant. I prayed for him & will continue to,” Bayless wrote.
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Responses to that tweet were not entirely forgiving.
“You’re a piece of s***,” music journalist Nicholas Liddle replied.
“I don’t believe it. If no one said anything underneath your last tweet, you wouldn’t have the same reaction with this one,” another one says.
Two hours later, Bayless’s original tweet, with 76.6 million views and 64,100 quotes, was yet to be deleted.
