CANTON, Ohio — The NFL season kicked off on the annual Corridor of Fame recreation Thursday night time with a second of silence for the 4 individuals killed earlier this week by a shooter who was concentrating on league headquarters in New York.
The gunman additionally wounded a league worker within the capturing Monday night time. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell advised NBC he visited the worker for an hour on Wednesday and mentioned he was enhancing. Goodell additionally mentioned he attended Thursday’s funeral of New York police officer Didarul Islam, who was killed within the capturing.
There was elevated safety round Tom Benson Stadium, the place Eric Allen, Jared Allen, Antonio Gates and Sterling Sharpe will probably be inducted into the Professional Soccer Corridor of Fame on Saturday.
“That is actual life and it is unlucky that we reside in an area proper now that is a chance and it is changing into a scenario the place when you’re a father or mother, that is the very first thing you concentrate on is office security on your baby or on your family members,” Eric Allen advised The Related Press. “And for it to particularly be the Nationwide Soccer League, the opening week is tonight, Corridor of Fame is Saturday, and the sport has made so many nice strides, however it’s simply an instance of there’s nonetheless work to be achieved.”
The league held a digital city corridor Wednesday, giving workers a chance to attach and share assets. Goodell advised workers on Tuesday they might work remotely at the very least via the tip of subsequent week as a result of league places of work can be closed.
Investigators imagine Shane Tamura, 27, of Las Vegas, was making an attempt to get to the NFL places of work after capturing a number of individuals within the constructing’s foyer, then one other in a Thirty third-floor workplace on Monday, earlier than he killed himself, authorities mentioned.
Police mentioned Tamura had a historical past of psychological sickness, and a rambling notice discovered on his physique steered that he had a grievance towards the NFL over a declare that he suffered from continual traumatic encephalopathy, a degenerative mind illness that may be identified solely by inspecting the mind after an individual dies.
Tamura performed highschool soccer in California a decade in the past however by no means within the NFL.
The Related Press contributed to this report.