Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin collapsed on the field Monday night and was administered CPR before being driven to a hospital, where the NFL said he was in critical condition, and Buffalo’s game against the Cincinnati Bengals was suspended for the night.
The NFL announced just over an hour after the injury that the game would not resume. When or if the teams would return to the field was not immediately clear.
“Our thoughts are with Damar and the Buffalo Bills. We will provide more information as it becomes available,” the league said in a statement. “The NFL has been in constant communication with the NFL Players Association which is in agreement with postponing the game.”
Hamlin collided with Bengals receiver Tee Higgins after a completion in what appeared to be a routine, if violent, tackle. He got to his feet, appeared to adjust his face mask with his right hand, and then fell backward about three seconds later and lay motionless.
Hamlin was treated on the field by team and independent medical personnel and local paramedics, the NFL said. He was surrounded by stunned players from both teams.
An ambulance was on the field four minutes after Hamlin collapsed, with many players in tears, including cornerback Tre’Davious White. The quarterbacks — Buffalo’s Josh Allen and Cincinnati’s Joe Burrow — embraced.
Hamlin collapsed at 8:55 p.m., and when he was taken off the field 16 minutes later, the Bills gathered in prayer. He was driven to University of Cincinnati Medical Center. Five minutes after the ambulance departed, the game was suspended, and players walked off the field slowly and into their locker rooms.
Hamlin’s uniform was cut off and he appeared to be getting CPR from medical personnel. ESPN reported on its telecast that Hamlin was also given oxygen.
“No one’s been through this,” longtime NFL quarterback Troy Aikman said on the ESPN telecast. “I’ve never seen anything like it, either.”
The Bengals led 7-3 in the first quarter of a game between teams vying for the top playoff seed in the AFC. Cincinnati entered at 11-4 and leading the AFC North by one game over Baltimore, while AFC East champion Buffalo was 12-3.
The aftermath of the injury was reminiscent of when Bills tight end Kevin Everett lay motionless on the field after making a tackle on the second-half opening kickoff in Buffalo’s 2007 season-opening game against the Denver Broncos.
Everett sustained a spinal cord injury that initially left him partially paralyzed.
The 24-year-old Hamlin spent five years of college at Pitt — his hometown — and appeared in 48 games for the Panthers over that span. He was a second-team All-ACC performer as a senior, was voted a team captain and was picked to play in the Senior Bowl.
He was drafted in the sixth round by the Bills in 2021, played in 14 games as a rookie and then became a starter this year once Micah Hyde was lost for the season to injury.
Entering the game, the 6-foot, 200-pound Hamlin had 91 tackles, including 63 solo tackles, and 1 1/2 sacks.
A tweet from the Pitt football account was simple and clear: “Damar Hamlin is the best of us. We love you, 3,” the tweet said, referring to Hamlin by his college jersey number. “Praying for you.”
(AP)
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A tragic but not unheard of occurrence in sports where a player gets hit in the chest (precordial blow) and it causes a cardiac arrest. It has a successful resuscitation rate of less than 10%.
And who says YWN doesn’t talk sports?
In other news, 20 African Americans were slaughtered like worthless sheep on the streets of South Chicago, and the same “concerned” media whores gives a yawn, makes sure it doesn’t see the light of day, and concentrates on former President Trump’s personal tax returns and the out of control white supremacy problem plaguing our Nation. Why is this professional football player’s life worth more than one living in the housing projects?!
This has been happening on the futbol-soccer pitch overseas almost every week for the past 18 months. (It subsided recently coinciding as well with the intake of boosters.) The show went on and they never stopped play for more than 20min.
NFL players (classified in 3 groups: Offence, Defense & Special Teams for Kicking & Receiving) are also on the field for much shorter time periods and at rest while waiting their turn. When on, Coach often pulls them them after one or 2 major runs. NHL palyers are usually on the ice for less than a minute (48sec avg). Therefore the prolonged cardio stress is normally much less than soccer.
Vaccine?
This is incredibly frightening
Things are a lot better these days. Teddy Roosevelt stepped in & changed the way football is played due to all the regular deaths & terrible injuries happening.
No mention about the c19 shot – typical of MSM reporting, although now that it’s also after the very popular documentary “Suddenly Died” has been released – and watched by millions, one would think even they might relent.
Another reason to fast
Maybe YWN should take a 20th anniversary poll whether they should be posting articles like this online…?
And i am truly surprised that the moderators didn’t catch the obscene language in the comments.
Or have all objective Torah standards been done away with.
At least the headline wasn’t KIDDUSH HASHEM: HATZALAH MEMBER DAVENING MINCHAH AT NFL GAME SAVES LIFE OF PLAYER. MITZVAH GORERES MITZVAH.
CAD
Its not a precordial thump, its commotio cordis, the theory is that the hit produces a depolarization during the relative refractory period, causing an R on T phenomenon. Which in return causes all cardia cells to become excited and they begin to fibrillate, the chaotic fibrilation cannot produce any cardiac output, and the patient goes into cardiac arrest.
The ventricular fibrillation needs to defibrillated (shocked), with CPR inbetween to maintain cerebral perfusion.
The sooner the defibrillation, the more chances for a better outcome.
Hopefully, this was immediately recognized and there was immediate defibrillation.
No, its not the vaccines, and not about cardiac stress.
I hope tackle football dies out one day. The risk of major injury is generally less in other sports besides the CTE issue and brain damage.
Personally I think it’s more of a “horror” that a Jewish man thought it was OK to today walk up on the Har Habayis. Who cares anything about these dumb sports players?