Football a matter of life and death... until it isn’t

Right now they have hardly a care in the world, outside the small matter of trying to win the All-Ireland.

None of the Mayo senior football panel is yet a husband or a father.

Over the years that will change. Most of them will have kids and all the thrills, spills and worries that go with them, and at times whatever transpired on Sunday, September 23, 2012, will seem to pale into insignificance.