NFL officially postpones Monday Night Football game after Damar Hamlin collapses on field
The NFL has officially announced the postponement of the Monday Night Football game between the Buffalo Bills and Cincinnati Bengals. ESPN relayed the news on its broadcast.
In the first quarter of the game, Bills safety Damar Hamlin, a former Pitt football player, collapsed on the field.
Emergency personnel had to administer CPR to Hamlin on the field as players watched on in horror.
He was eventually transported to a local hospital. Reports from the stadium said an AED was used on Hamlin:
I’m told Damar Hamlin has a pulse, but is not breathing on his own. He is being transported to UC.
Needed AED and CPR on the field.
— Joe Danneman (@FOX19Joe) January 3, 2023
After originally being told they’d have 5 minutes to warm up before resuming the game, players from both teams went back to their locker rooms. It was then announced the game had been temporarily suspended.
Following a lengthy wait, the NFL finally announced the game had been postponed:
There are no details on when the game might be resumed, but obviously at this moment, all thoughts and prayers are with Hamlin and his family during this scary time.
They should’ve suspended the game once he was removed by ambulance. Performing CPR on a player/coach is enough reason to end the game.
Yes, with a player still in critical condition in a Level 1 trauma center, now is definitely the appropriate time to critique and assign blame for a *game* decision.
I get where YOUWORSHIP is coming from. Once the head coaches got together and the teams went to their locker rooms it was time to call the postponment.
I just think the game related after-action can wait right now.
All indications are that this man’s condition is still extremely serious.
Life > sports opinions
Agree 100%. I was thinking of the physical safety and the emotional well-being of the other players.
@mlc There’s no doubt that Life is greater than sports opinions. However, my comment is directed at the top league officials. Officials who have the power to cancel a game, remove the fans AND Media from the stadium and subsequently make the tragic news less sensationalized. Had league officials acted much quicker, there would’ve been LESS SPORTS OPINIONS across all platforms. That decision actually would’ve served your point much greater.
We don’t really know when the decision to postpone the game was made. All we know is when it was announced.
I would think it was at the very least being put forth when the teams left the field.
It was jolting to see the way Hamlin collapsed after getting up. Watching the next 20 minutes was just brutal. Prayers for the young man and for his family.
First, I want to say I’m pleased SDS had the decency not to include a replay of the hit. It isn’t often SDS does something right, but at least they showed they were human on this one.
Idk how many have seen the tweet Skip Bayless put out but it just shows that talentless, spineless, heartless POS hack does not deserve to be employed. Everyone needs to do all they can to boycott anything and everything he is involved in. If there was ever a more fitting reason to employ cancel culture on an individual, he took it to a new level with his tweet.
That being said, the game of football is never bigger than 1 players life and prayers go out to Damar and his family.
It wasn’t a violent hit or anything that would shock anyone. Pretty routine hit. No necks snapping or bones bending. Got up and just went down. What was the tweet about?
Just look on Twitter. Won’t take you long to find it as much as everyone is calling for his head right now.
I saw. I think he was noticing the reaction was different from players and canceling. Ill spoken and ill advised timed statement. But imo, players want to know if this injury was caused by the hit or..something else that we can’t talk about on here. It’s got to be explainable one way or another. Hours later since I last posted on here and nothing new.
“It wasn’t a violent hit or anything that would shock anyone. ”
Yep.
Agreed, that tweet should be enough for Skip to be unemployed.
Bayless is a jerk.
You are unemployed or maybe serving up Golden Corral. Slob. Leach hater.
Kiss me baby
What is indecent about showing any injury? It’s a risk of the game and people should know the risks. They’re brutal and very real. If people don’t want these outcomes, don’t attend games or watch. Much safer sports exist. Otherwise, it’s hypocritical to say we’re above seeing these horrible images but somehow are ok with others risking these injuries solely for our entertainment.
I’m kind of in the middle on issues like this. I think that it’s the responsibility of the broadcast team to show replays of any significant play in a game, and that includes injuries.
However, I also agree that in situations like what happened last night, once everyone realizes the severity of the situation, the network should stop showing replays of it until the player’s condition is revealed.
With that said, ESPN immediately showed a couple of replays, as they would with any injury. But it was during the time spent showing those replays that I think everyone started realizing how serious it was, and that’s why they didn’t show any further replays. It was the replays that first made everyone not on the field aware of the situation, because it clearly wasn’t an external injury to the head, neck, back, etc, after watching how he collapsed. I think they did exactly what they should have done from a broadcast standpoint.
C3, C4, and C5 keep the diaphragm alive…
I don’t think this was a spinal injury. Looked like something else.
There was no cervical spine involvement, nor was there any other spinal involvement.
This is to say quite unusual. We’ve seen very serious injuries before and it’s been game on. This has a whole different feel to it. We’ll know if the NFL powers issue a heart cardiogram for required for all NFL players in the near future. Imo, it can’t hurt.
ESPN really seems speechless and is struggling to fill air space. Everyone (understandably) is having a hard time functioning on air.
Just a horrible situation. Prayers to Hamlin & his family. Tough to watch.
Awful situation. I can’t believe I’ve seen some people (looking at you, Skip) stating the game should be played as usual.
There was no way those players were going to finish that game. What those players were going through, mentally, made them unfit to play football.
Exactly.
Seems like a textbook case of commotio cordis, given the anterior thoracic impact and onset of symptoms.
Thing is it didn’t look like a hard hit but you never know. We’ve seen QB’s take much harder hits in the chest. One Dr said it was basically fainting, or orthostatic hypertension but that usually never involves the heart stopping. Not a hard hit though unless he fell on a the helmet but that is also pretty thin. Whatever it is, it appears circulatory related.
I don’t think it has to be a bone-crushing type of hit to cause commotio cordis based on my knowledge. I think it’s more about the angle and timing of the hit in conjuction with the rhythm of the heart’s beating.
He was wearing padding and it wasn’t a brutal hit. Don’t baseball players wear that covering over their chest to prevent this?
Not to my knowledge
That’s my guess based on the delay in him collapsing and reported treatment on scene. Went into v-fib, started cpr, and shocked him back into rhythm.
That is what it looked like to me. My wife and I had harder contact playing caveman when we were newlyweds many long years ago. It was a big nothing burger as far as the hit went. I just pray they were able to keep his brain oxygenated enough with the CPR, and he has no lasting effects.
#NoShotsNoClots
Unfortunately, I think you may be over the target. Soccer players dropping all over the place in Europe because of it.
The hit was seemingly a normal tackle.
It was, and probably, one of the least is relation to impact that he has made.
Take that elsewhere.
yes coozie, we mustn’t question the almighty jab.
Question what you like but do it credibly and don’t engage with conspiracy theories with literally no evidence.
There is as much evidence that it has negative effects as there is that is effective. In fact, it is completely ineffective as a v a x.
With literally no evidence? Wow.
Not only completely ineffective as a v a x but totally unnecessary for the age group in question. Feel concern for my good friends who bought into this get rich scheme and took the s h o t initially as well as all those who were forced to do so.
Shame on the powers that be
There’s plenty of evidence. Case and point: Damar Hamlin
@Operationdino88: Amen to your statement!
I can’t believe it took the NFL to make the decision to postpone the game. As usual it looks like money and the effects on the playoffs were more important than the feelings and safety of the players. Once Hamlin was removed from the field, the NFL should have acted immediately. Considering the state of mind the players were in, especially the Bill’s players, the lack of focus would put the safety of each player in jeopardy. Avoidable injuries were likely to have happened.
The NFL has to consider every possible outcome, that’s why it took them so long. They never even discussed restarting the game, per NFLPA leader Troy Vincent
Hamlin suffered a cardiac arrest, per CNN and other sources.
I think CFB_Fan92 is on the right track. It was just a freak thing.
Thoughts and prayers with Damar and his family today.
That is pretty obvious if they are doing CPR. If you have not seen the hit, we used to hit harder playing flag football. It was nothing.
Higgins just kinda ran into him with his helmet dead in the center of his chest
After Joe Theismann was injured they finished the game. Don’t you think the kid would’ve wanted them to finish last night’s game?
A broken leg is different from dying. That is basically what the kid did, he did. His heart stopped functioning, there is no other reason to do CPR. The players were emotionally distraught, and they were in no condition to play a game. No one had to worry that they were going to find out that Theismann had died at the hospital.
@Tide Exactly
I think he would have but the players were in total shock there’s no way that game could’ve continued
I agree with the decision not to finish the game, but I do think people are being overly critical of the NFL for taking so long to suspend it.
This was an unprecedented situation in modern football. I actually applaud the NFL for taking some time to make sure everyone involved fully understood the situation before making a decision. I’m sure the NFL execs were watching the game, but there’s just no way for them to have been able to fully understand the situation before they started contacting officials from both teams. They also can’t just go off of the sideline reporter saying the player was receiving CPR. Before they suspended that game, they needed to gather all the facts and confirm what had taken place. Once that happened, over the course of the next 45 minutes or so, the announcement came that the game would be suspended.
Exactly they had to make sure they did everything right
Man I feel so bad he’s only 24 that’s older than me but still waaaay to young for something as scary as this to happen