The bottom line here is that the health and safety concerns of players in our game have to predominate over competitive issues.
NEW YORK -- Jim Gossett has been paid to watch football games for more than 30 years: for three decades as an athletic trainer at Columbia University and four seasons as an injury spotter for the NFL.
But this season, stationed high above the field at MetLife Stadium, Gossett is able to do something he has never done before: Stop the game.
For the first time, the NFL is giving spotters in the press box the power to call a medical timeout.