Most of you know the story or at least the basics behind the "We are Marshall" movie. I still haven't seen it, but I was thinking about it this summer. Given the number of flights taken by NBA, NFL, and MLB teams, how has this not happened to one of them? More interestingly, what would happen if it did?
With a quick search I discovered that all three leagues have a contingency plan. Those plans though seem vague and not very satisfactory. An MLB team would probably have the easiest time recovering. They've got a AAA team and probably a few guys on the DL who weren't on the trip. Their 40 man roster could be rebuilt with an expansion like draft much easier than rebuilding a 53 man NFL roster or finding 12 players for an NBA team that would be competitive.
In thinking about this I was trying to figure out how to run a draft in such a way as to be fair and to restock a team in such a way to be competitive. There would of course be a number of protected player on each 4o man MLB roster. Ignoring no trade clauses how would a team like the Yankees choose who to protect.
If you leave A-Rod unprotected, he might get taken, but then again no other team probably wants to pay his salary so the Yankees could in effect get an extra protected player. That doesn't seem right. I'm not sure what the answer is.
OK, so the other questions raised, which teams would recover the easiest? How do you thinnk the plan would work? How many games off would the NFL grant a team?
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