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

[BobbyC81]

51 minutes ago, Billznut said:

I’m almost positive no NFL team has ever had the amount of adversity that the Bills have had this year. All the injuries, the November storm, two games in Detroit in a week, Christmas storm, 3 nights in Chicago, and now Hamlin. I believe it’s unprecedented. If someone knows of a NFL team dealing with more in one season, please feel free to correct me. 

The New Orleans Saints with Katrina?

[Kirby Jackson]

I’m at a loss for words. This was one of the saddest and scariest things that I’ve seen. It’s a reminder of how precious life really is. Prayers up for Damar and his family. 

[BearNorth]

57 minutes ago, Billznut said:

I’m almost positive no NFL team has ever had the amount of adversity that the Bills have had this year. All the injuries, the November storm, two games in Detroit in a week, Christmas storm, 3 nights in Chicago, and now Hamlin. I believe it’s unprecedented. If someone knows of a NFL team dealing with more in one season, please feel free to correct me. 

You could add team president and co-owner out of action due to health issues.

[John from Riverside]

32 minutes ago, The Frankish Reich said:

Thank you for helping to provide some knowledgeable comments here. This is they type of thing that makes social media (writ large - an old school bulletin board) a positive today: someone who knows what they're talking about helping other understand what's going on.

I’m a graduate advisor at a university in one of my programs used to be the school of medicine gonna check for a couple of people I know to see if I can get any additional information

[Xwnyer]

4 minutes ago, John from Riverside said:

I’m a graduate advisor at a university in one of my programs used to be the school of medicine gonna check for a couple of people I know to see if I can get any additional information

Let’s let the doctors treating him give us reports been seeing way to much speculation on social media and network news channels.  Sure folks can provide explanations for possible reasons this happened but until we get official statements it’s all speculation.

[Talley56]

If there is anything to be encouraged by it is the support the Bills and Hamlin have received from fans/players of other teams, particularly rivals of the Bills.  It’s nice to see others who know when it’s time to take the uniforms off and ban together as humans to care about the health and safety of an individual.  I’m sure there are some out there who have made insensitive remarks but, overall, from what I have seen, the reactions have been mostly supportive.

[Brianmoorman4jesus]

Does anyone have an idea of any possible realistic timeline for updates? Would it be crazy to think we could hear something this morning or are we thinking it’s at least 24 hours before any sort of information?

[JoPoy88]

Just now, Brianmoorman4jesus said:

Does anyone have an idea of any possible realistic timeline for updates? Would it be crazy to think we could hear something this morning or are we thinking it’s at least 24 hours before any sort of information?

it’s probable we’ll hear something today. May not be much, but there will be some sort of update.

[CorkScrewHill]

I may have missed if this was already posted, but this is a video of Damar talking about how they were able to keep going after the scary Dane Jackson injury.

 

Bottom-line was he needed reassurance from Dane that he was okay. The CPR, defribulator, and the lack of ability of DamR to say it’s okay made this very different.

 

definitely praying for positive news. As Damar stated life is bigger than football 

 

 

Edited January 3, 2023 by CorkScrewHill

[NoSaint]

1 hour ago, stevewin said:

It was awkward to incredible it did not appear the league was in contact with ESPN at all during the time he was injured to when they were given the 'official statement', at the same time the PA announcer was.  All they could do was say 'we are still waiting for word from the league' and be careful not to wrongly speculate- which basically meant they really couldn't offer any meaningful information on what was going on.

 

Granted the league had its hands full trying to assess what was going on and make decisions, but it is crazy they did not appear to communicate at all with the network.  They didn't have to give details/specifics, but could have offered some info along the way "we are currently looking into options" "our primary concern is the player" etc instead of the broadcast having no official messages/information to send at all.   Failure to communicate indeed

Did we really need an official “we are looking at options” and “we care about the players health”?

 

Everyone knows all of that, it adds nothing meaningful 

[Don Otreply]

7 hours ago, BobbyC81 said:

 

 

A question was asked, so I answered it, what’s the problem you are having with that?  

[Bills!Win!]

I’ve been a fan since 99. This feels worse than music city miracle, the Dallas MNF loss and the KC losses. 

[Playoffs?]

1 hour ago, SageAgainstTheMachine said:

I was waking up every couple hours and bracing myself for grim news whenI checked my phone.

Man… I was doing the same thing.  Waking up every hour, checking ESPN and saying ‘please don’t have bad news on it.’  
 

I’m going to remain optimistic for now.

 

I mentioned last night, and will say again, Ryan Clark and Scott Van Pelt were absolutely amazing… and should get some serious national recognition in how they handled this. 

[ddaryl]

1 minute ago, Bills!Win! said:

I’ve been a fan since 99. This feels worse than music city miracle, the Dallas MNF loss and the KC losses. 

 

Kevin Everett. That was another horrific situation but this one is even worse

[NoSaint]

4 minutes ago, JoPoy88 said:

it’s probable we’ll hear something today. May not be much, but there will be some sort of update.

Yea, I think It depends on the trajectory it’s taking 

 

if going to norms it’s probably a statement from family/reps with a thanks for concern and currently stable but not out of the woods sooner and a more meaningful update but still high level later in the day 

 

we might not have concrete for a bit here 

[SageAgainstTheMachine]

Just saw a really good point  - if they announce immediately that the game is postponed, the emergency vehicles now have to deal with prohibitive traffic when seconds count.

[Steptide]

My hope today is that good news comes regarding Hamlin and that they can get back to playing football. I don't say that as a selfish football fan that wants to see my team play, I say that because I want everything to go back to normal as much as possible. I have no doubt that this bills team will rally around this. It's not about being the one seed or winning the super bowl at this moment, it's about Hamlin being ok. Once we get word he's ok, I absolutely believe this will light a fire in this team. 

[Captain Caveman]

I had seen that the standard procedure for a cardiac event like Hamlin suffered is for him to be in the induced coma for at least 24 hours, so we may not get much in the way of updates today on his current condition.

[fergie's ire]

49 minutes ago, SageAgainstTheMachine said:

Saw some YouTube channels peddling “RIP Damar Hamlin” for clicks.  As we celebrate the vast majority of people who are acting decently, certain others are below pond scum.

Yeah, fortunately I have missed those.  In these days I have come to expect the worst from people but I was pleasantly surprised last night at well everyone (with the exception of the NFL) reacted.  The announcers, the studio team, the coaches, players, fans (Bills and Bengals) were all supportive and thoughtful.  

[SageAgainstTheMachine]

Just now, Steptide said:

My hope today is that good news comes regarding Hamlin and that they can get back to playing football. I don't say that as a selfish football fan that wants to see my team play, I say that because I want everything to go back to normal as much as possible. I have no doubt that this bills team will rally around this. It's not about being the one seed or winning the super bowl at this moment, it's about Hamlin being ok. Once we get word he's ok, I absolutely believe this will light a fire in this team. 

Could go that way or you could have some traumatized players wondering if they’re going to die when they get hit.  I’m not prepared to predict any reactions.  Human minds and motivations are complex.