The NFL’s Secret Plan For If All The Players Die

Video written by Corinne Neustadter

[clumsycaleb]

In 1970 Marshall University lost nearly all of their football team in the worst sports related air disaster in U.S. history. The movie We Are Marshall is based on it and it’s very good

[francescoaiazzone]

Just outside Turin, Italy there's a hill overlooking the city where a plane carrying players of the Torino football (soccer) team crashed in 1949. A memorial marks the site. It was a sudden and tragic loss, the team struggled to recover and still struggles today to an extent.

[arthuruppiano]

"26 teams... 162 games a season... you'd think eventually an entire team would just get wiped out." --George Costanza

[thenickster]

There was the tragic Humboldt Broncos bus crash that killed 16 players, in the middle of the playoffs. Even thinking about this tragedy hurts, but for those who don't know, in 2018, a team bus carrying the junior hockey team Humboldt Broncos, was hit by a semi, which killed 16 of the team's players.

[filipsichrovsky]

Ok but what happens if all players of every team die at once?

[CraigChrist]

Also: My alma mater Wichita State University lost half of their football team when a plane crashed in 1970 killing 31 people. The program never rebuilt, and to this day we have a football stadium without a team.

This vacancy allowed Jason Sudeikis, who is from Kansas, to create a fictional team led by Ted Lasso before he started coaching the other kind of football.

[SteveFrench_]

I'm surprised that the 1950 plane crash where almost the entire Soviet hockey team was killed, wasn't mentioned. Stalin's son, Vasily, was team manager (&was not on the plane), covered up the crash in efforts to hide it from his father. Vasily forced the team to fly in blizzard like conditions just so they'd keep playing. He immediately replaced the entire team and Stalin never noticed despite the goalie who was in net in their very 1st national game, Harijs Mellups, was killed. They beat East Germany 23-2 in that game.

[Maxyy]

As a Buc fan the joke about Brady playing by himself had me rolling.

[sujalgarewal]

0:36 You forgot the mother of all sports related air disasters. When Torino FC's team died in 1949. Torino never recovered after that, and Italy who were favourites to win the world cup in 1950 got knocked out in the group stage.

[PaulMcElligott]

"Let's start the way most brain injuries do, with the NFL..." 🤣🤣

[alansmith]

3:34 For the future "mistakes Sam made" video. He says "Rule 29" but the graphic says Rule 19

[sam.ramphall]

A good example would have been Chapecoense's disaster in 2016 and how their team rebuilt

[insertnamehere]

*I read the title as, "The NFL's secret plan to make all the players die" 💀*

[alistairhughes]

Sam don't ever stop making the HAI series please, dry humour is really hard to find 👍

[Leyrann]

I know of a stock trading company where two people work at any "desk", which basically means they together are responsible for certain groups of stocks. When the company goes on outings (which, with stock trading money, tend to be far away), they always go with two private jets. And from every single desk, one member goes on one jet, and the other goes on the other jet. So if one jet crashes, there's still someone who knows what needs to happen for every single desk.

[MadSpacePig]

Sam at exactly 3:00 you bamboozled me by using your transitioning to sponsor read voice without actually transitioning to the sponsor read.

[AadamSaleem]

This guy never runs out of video Ideas

[Yerminator]

That Davis Mills shot was uncalled for 💀💀💀

[ericpauley]

That these plans don’t get executed in the US (and elsewhere) is really a testament to the safety of air travel. The US currently has something like a 100 million flight/13 year winning streak against fatal airline crashes.

[bmac]

Man the Yaroslavl disaster still stings. It was tragic loss of life regardless, but strictly in terms of personal connection, my favorite NHL team lost one of its drafted players in that crash when he was playing for that team, and he was barely in his early 20s.