Admit it.

Had the NFL decided to play this weekend, you would have watched. Count yourself among millions who would have tuned in.

Sunday came and passed with the NFL postponing play for the first time in league history, not including the strike-shortened season in 1987.

By doing this, the league may have done the country a favor by giving Americans an extra day to spend cherished time with their loved ones while mourning the loss of other loved ones. America was also given an extra day for its people to help rebuild lives, not to mention two major U.S. cities.

Playing “games” each Sunday, though, is work for 1, 743 players, not to mention a number of coaches, officials and media-types. While many players opposed going to work on Sunday, 300 Cantar Fitzgerald employees paid tribute to their 700 missing co-workers by returning to work Wednesday morning.

Workers across the U.S. worked Tuesday and the ones who did not were back at work the next day.

People who worked within blocks of the horrific crash in New York were back at work at the very scene of the disaster. Students across the nation also returned to their respective class schedules the day following the tragedy.

America did this while thousands of bodies were being discovered under heaps of rubble.

America stayed resilient.

As a sign of respect to those of have lost their lives, the NFL felt that having 65, 000 people cheering for their teams to score touchdowns and get sacks could have waited a week.

It?s going to take months to uncover all the bodies, though. Some could never be found.

The NFL, much like the rest of the nation, will resume its “normal” schedule this weekend.

Last Friday, millions across America took time for part of prayer and remembrance. Before kickoff, fans in NFL stadiums across the country could have paid tribute to those by taking a minute of silence.

We as a nation will never be able to replace those who have left. What we are all striving for though is to get things as close as the way they were.

That means restoring and keeping intact our most wholesome and American customs including football. Keeping things as intact as possible is also our country?s way of throwing up their collective middle finger to every terrorist in the world and telling them we will not be pushed around.

Americans are not people who will be paralyzed by fear no matter what the circumstances.