Ryan Clark holding back tears when speaking about Damar Hamlin 🙏🏾 pic.twitter.com/53t9hJphwk
— Victor Weiland (@Farmervic42) January 3, 2023
i am heartbroken over a 24 year old player id never heard of before or seen or would recognize if he walked past me next month
today he was trying to tackle a guy, got hit in the chest with the helmet of the runner and fell, got up and fell again. he stopped breathing. for 9 minutes they gave him cpr.
he started breathing again and they rushed him to the hospital where he is now.
the league wanted to get the game restarted 5 minutes after he was being wheeled off the field.
players on both sides were crying. the announcers were having a hard time keeping it together too because the hit was hard but we’ve seen those a million times.
but this one was different somehow and the players walked off the field, the game was suspended, and after a while both teams said they weren’t going to go back out there tonight.
the league and one 71 year old talk show host on espn wanted the game between the two excellent teams to resume because of playoffs and blah blah blah but the players basically said are you kidding fuck you we’re going home.
and they went home.
except the guy who hit damar with his helmet.
he took an uber to the hospital.