"Receiver let his teammates down"

Ron Cook of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette thinks that Troy Williamson was wrong for missing the game last week because his grandmother died. He thinks that he should have found a way to fulfill both obligations.

Williamson owed his teammates more than to bail on them for nine days.

Aren't they supposed to be his family, too?

But couldn't Williamson have rejoined the Vikings late last week, played against the Chargers and made it back to Aiken for the funeral? If not, couldn't the funeral have been pushed back a day until Tuesday?

No they aren't his family. They're his coworkers. That's all football is. His job. His family is his relatives. Ron Cook needs to wake up. What happens to someone's family is way more important then some stupid game. And coworkers are not family. Otherwise there wouldn't be trades. How many families trade family members? How many family members leave their family to sign with a new family thats going to give them more. Football is a business. And its only a business.