In the center of the primary quarter of Monday Night Football, Buffalo security Damar Hamlin collapsed after making a sort out in opposition to Cincinnati. Hamlin accomplished the sort out, stood up for a couple of moments, and fell to the turf. Medical assist attended to Hamlin instantly with no fast damage designation given within the aftermath. The sport has been briefly suspended with 5:58 left within the first quarter.
After tackling Tee Higgins, Hamlin’s head hit the turf in what appeared like a routine sort out. Players from the Bills and Bengals rapidly surrounded the 24-year-old Hamlin with an ambulance being pushed onto the sector to raised help medical personnel. The ABC broadcast talked about Hamlin needing oxygen as he was loaded into the ambulance on a stretcher after being given CPR. After the ambulance left the sector, the Bills prayed as a group with a number of gamers together with Josh Allen and Stefon Diggs clearly being affected and searching devastated by the occasions.
After such a traumatic occasion, the query stays of how each groups can come again onto the sector and play a sport that thrives on bodily contact, particularly with little element on Hamlin’s situation.
[UPDATE]:
The NFL has suspended the sport indefinitely. They’ll get along with each groups to attempt to discover a date to play this one. Here’s the official assertion:
“Tonight’s Buffalo Bills-Cincinnati Bengals game has been postponed after Buffalo Bills’ Damar Hamlin collapsed, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell announced.
Hamlin received immediate medical attention on the field by team and independent medical staff and local paramedics. He was then transported to a local hospital where he is in critical condition.
Our thoughts are with Damar and the Buffalo Bills.”
We will present extra data because it turns into out there.
The NFL has been in fixed communication with the NFL Players Association which is in settlement with suspending the sport.
Let’s not overlook that the NFL tried to run the gamers again on the market with a five-minute warmup.
We’ll proceed to replace this story as extra data turns into out there.