Damar Hamlin - Now (1/11/2023) discharged from Buf Gen & “recovering at home”

[SDS]

4 minutes ago, JGMcD2 said:

It was McDermott’s reaction for me. He’s always so calm no matter the situation.

 

He was visibly distraught. 

agreed. He started walking on the field and I thought to myself well this is weird. And then looking at him I turned my wife and said I think he’s crying. And that’s when they started scanning the faces of the other players on the team. Not at that point something wasn’t right.

[nbbillsfan]

1 minute ago, Dick_Cheney said:

Seeing Tre White totally broken down, man. Just devastating. 

100% heartbreaking. Would not surprise me at all to see him walk away from football.

[John from Riverside]

Just now, YoloinOhio said:

 

That is a very bad look for the NFL

[blacklabel]

7 minutes ago, boyst said:

Who's the former player talking on ESPN? 

 

Ryan Clark

[BADOLBILZ]

17 minutes ago, Reed83HOF said:

https://ksi.uconn.edu/emergency-conditions/cardiac-conditions/commotio-cordis/

 

"Commotio Cordis refers to the sudden arrhythmic death caused by a low/mild chest wall impact.  Commotio Cordis is seen mostly in athletes between the ages of 8 and 18 who are partaking in sports with projectiles such as baseballs, hockey pucks, or lacrosse balls.  These projectiles can strike the athletes in the middle of the chest with a low impact but enough to cause the heart to enter an arrhythmia. Martial arts is a sport in which a strike of a hand can also cause the heart to change it’s rhythm.  Without immediate CPR and defibrillation the prognosis of commotio cordis is not very good.  This condition is extremely dangerous with rare survival."

 

 

Yeah it's an injury most associated with baseball because players don't pad up.   You can buy shirts with a special circular series of pads in the center of the chest.   I made my youngest wear one but never told him why.   Didn't figure anything good could come out of making him scared of the ball.    Still no guarantee of safety.   Instant death on the field from this among children in youth baseball is not as uncommon as you'd think.   

 

 

Edited January 3, 2023 by BADOLBILZ

[Jeffbigalls]

Scary that a potential cardiac event at such a young age.

[Simon]

Just now, BarleyNY said:

When I heard that they were going to have the players warm up for 5 minutes and then resume the game my reaction was “Oh, thank god he’s okay.” I can’t believe the league tried to do that without any positive information about Hamlin’s condition. Just unbelievable disregard for the players as human beings. 

 

Nobody has any idea whether this is even true

[Big Turk]

1 minute ago, YoloinOhio said:

 

 

Wow...the NFL and Goodell should be ashamed of themselves and the owners should remove him ASAP 

[MAJBobby]

Imagine being this trauma care team. You know they were watching the Bengals game on during their shift. And seeing an injury happen live that you know you are about to save his life………… 

[appoo]

1 minute ago, YoloinOhio said:

 

This league leadership needs cleaning out. This is unconscionable 

[Success]

I've always liked Ryan Clark - but this has been his best moment.  Just straight from the heart.  I'm still kind of crying & feeling devastated, and it's comforting.

 

[GunnerBill]

1 minute ago, YoloinOhio said:

 

 

Which, good on them, but the league should have stepped in. Shame on them for leaving it to people on the ground where the emotion is most raw to do the decent thing.

[KingBoots8]

Just now, YoloinOhio said:

 

Thankfully the Bills and Bengals have the moral compass and the stones to make the right call, regardless of the league decision being made. Lots of respect for both the leaders and players of both teams for having the heart to do what is right. 

[Beast]

I’ve wanted to say a million things and even attempted to post a few but decided not to because they sound so damned dumb. All we can continue to do his pray and hope for good news.

[NoSaint]

1 minute ago, Generic_Bills_Fan said:

This is a wild guess but I think the bills were prepared to forfeit if needed so they started packing up their stuff first and Zac Taylor may have agreed to postpone the game.  Maybe the nfl left it up to the coaches or the coaches straight up decided they weren’t playing on their own so the nfl needed to come out with a statement that matched 

maybe. 
 

but while the first 30 mins seemed like an eternity for us- the guys at the league office (many of whom were likely at home) trying to coordinate with the nflpa, coaches, officials, medics, stadium personnel, ESPN, etc… probably barely remember it from the number of conversations they were coordinating with little to no info. Emergency response is imperfect, and most likely had no idea what they were dealing with until the moment you and I did. We just watched a terrible situation unfold in real time on tv and short of a headline that the league office was inappropriately pushing til the last minute, I don’t see the upside in vilifying them.

[GolfandBills]

1 minute ago, MAJBobby said:

Imagine being this trauma care team. You know they were watching the Bengals game on during their shift. And seeing an injury happen live that you know you are about to save his life………… 

No.. i don’t want to imagine that 

[prissythecat]

27 minutes ago, Saint Doug said:

Was discussing with wife. We’re both physicians and this is what we think as well . One moment talking to teammates and the next, on the ground. Aortic rupture/dissection is likely - something caused blood from reaching the brain quickly. V fib from a hit to chest wouldn’t have been delayed. 

Would cpr be effective in the case of an aortic rupture/dissection.

[Billznut]

1 minute ago, John from Riverside said:

That is a very bad look for the NFL

And this is what most of us have been saying about the NFL the past two hours. Still those here defending the NFL. The NFL wanted to play tonight. F them. 

[Dick_Cheney]

Really proud of both coaches and teams for standing up for themselves and for Hamlin. 

[BarleyNY]

1 minute ago, Simon said:

 

Nobody has any idea whether this is even true

I don’t think the announcers made it up.