It seems the word sacrifice is whats trooping you up.
I’ll try to explain it in simple terms so you can follow.
Ok, if your local cafe was closed during lockdown and you had to get takeaway instead of drinking in. Is that a sacrifice ? Sure on some level it is.
Now let’s say a dr had to do 12 hour shifts, plus extra cleaning protocol before and after each shift.. is that a sacrifice? I mean they can choose to quit I guess.
Of course, during a global pandemic, lots of people made sacrifices. Some small, some big. That isn’t gate keeping, it’s just logic.
Back on topic though. Wests didn’t do this for anything other than $$$$. They have sold home games for years, now they just have an excuse for it.
All of that is irrelevant . The sacrifice is 💯 in reference to the fact in the nrl bubble no one else , had to endure what they had to.
And they did sacrifice , in the bubble of nrl rugby league . I if I go without an ice cream , so my son can have one because I only have 3 bucks that’s a sacrifice . If I jump on a grenade so my mates can live in the middle of a war zone that’s a sacrifice .
You could argue one is more grater than the other , in relative terms , but in that bubble and that moment , they both have intrinsic value . In fact to my son in that hypothetical , the ice cream would have infinitely more value than knowing someone jumped on a Grenade somewhere else . He would have emotion about the latter .
So in the nrl , in thier bubble , if one team gives up 2 years of thier life to play footy , in the nrl , that would have exponential value , that a cafe worker , or store person wouldn’t . That’s not to diminish the storeperson , and thier greater value to the wider world , as it’s all relative .
It’s the gesture that matters not its overall impact. I don’t understand what you’re failing to understand about this ?
And in regards to living in a bubble for 1-2 years . I did it for a year well before Covid ever existed . And mentally it was torture . And I had everything available to me , that you would think I would want in that environment .
And just about everyone else I speak to that went through the same thing , has the same story .
Time is the most precious commodity , and subconsciously I think we all know it . So to give up your time , for anyone , even a second is to give value to that . And it is a sacrifice . I’m sorry you don’t see that .