Declan Sullivan was filming a fighting Irish practice yesterday about 50 feet in the air on a scissor lift. The wind got up to about 50 miles per hour and the lift was blown over.
This 20 year old kid died while filming the practice of a game... a freaking worthless game.
I can't believe even the idea of putting him into the lift in weather conditions like that. Just before practice started Declan tweeted "Gusts of wind up to 60 mph. Well today will be fun at work. I guess I've lived long enough." about thirty minutes later Sullivan tweeted "Holy (blank). Holy (blank). This is terrifying." according to WTSB in South Bend.
How on earth could anyone let this happen? Notre Dame football practice... are you serious? Can we get some priorities straight here? Unbelievable, I cannot wait for the investigators to figure out who's dumb ass told him to go up there. Apparently, as if this wasn't bad enough the team continued practice!
Can you be anymore disrespectful? I think this should be a huge wake up call for America's priorities. They had a kid go up in horrific weather conditions to film a practice for a football team? A sport, a game, a worthless game is playing a game anywhere near that important?
Brian last week wrote about helmet to helmet hits... are we seriously willing to put human lives on the line for football? For America's general entertainment? I love football, I enjoy sports, but if the damn game comes anywhere near close to endangering lives then it just isn't worth it by any means.
I don't know what else to say about this other than to ask for your prayers for the friends and family of Declan Sullivan.
I can't agree with you more. It's disgusting that they continued practice afterward.
ReplyDeleteThanks for bringing this to our attention. Definitely praying for his family.
I definitely agree that it is a horrific tragedy and that his life was not worth the film. Someone should have stepped in and took him off of the lift.
ReplyDeleteOn the flip side, I disagree with you calling the team disrespectful for continuing to practice. No one knew he was dead and no one on the team could have known that he was fatally injured. He was pronounced dead about 20 minutes after the accident and the team wasn't notified until after practice. So they didn't continue to practice with the knowledge of this kids death.
So blame those in charge of the filming, but don't crucify the team for practicing on.