In the middle of the first quarter on “Monday Night Football,” a frightening scene unfolded that would bring everybody to their knees and in a state of shock.
Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin had just made a routine tackle on Tee Higgins of the Bengals as he got up to get ready for the next play. However, he could be seen stumnbling and then following backwards. He was non responsive as medical personnel would perform CPR on him for several minutes as the ambulance would come out to remove him from the field and take him to a local hospital.
During the broadcast, ESPN’s Joe Buck said players were told they had five minutes to warm up before the game would continue and everybody was simply in shock that the league would make the players play football after what they just witnessed.
Troy Vincent, the NFL’s executive vice president of football operations, claims that what Buck said wasn’t true
“I’m not sure where that came from,” Vincent said. “Frankly, there was no time period for the players to get warmed up. Frankly, the only thing that we asked was that [referee] Shawn [Smith] communicate with both head coaches to make sure they had the proper time inside the locker room to discuss what they felt like was best. So I’m not sure where that came from. Five-minute warmup never crossed my mind, personally. And I was the one . . . that was communicating with the Commissioner. We never, frankly, it never crossed our mind to talk about warming up to resume play. That’s ridiculous. That’s insensitive. And that’s not a place that we should ever be in.”
Video from the scene seems to suggest otherwise as players from both teams began to warm up at the same time.
Fans called them out for lying.
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As for right now, the only thing that truly matters is the health of Bills safety Damar Hamlin. He has a family that is still in shock and wants him to pull through.
