OT-MNF Damar Hamlin emergency

[Bulldog04]

He’s such a piece of garbage and he deserves to be fired for this. 64.1 million views and counting of this tweet. Now trying to backtrack and his second tweet makes zero sense.

Prayers up for Hamlin and his whole family. Cmon be okay

 

[Capt. Tuttle]

NFL should declare a tie. If it makes a difference in seeding, each team should be considered to have won the game for the tie breaker. If it’s a head to head tie breaker between these two, flip a coin.
Or, give them both a win.

 

[JeremyCuse]

If they had to put him to sleep , that would mean he was awake, is that not A very positive sign ?

He may have been semi conscious but wanted to be sure they could get the tube in without issue.

 

[Capt. Tuttle]

Every high school has AED’s nearby at games, I have to think they got one of those on him very quickly here?

Not every school. A work colleague has a charity in Fl that donates DeFibs for schools and youth sports teams.

 

[Toga]

One guy on Twitter with about 35,000 followers says he is a friend and marketing rep for Hamlin. Says his vitals have returned to normal. He has been sleep induced and is intubated. Tests being performed.

 

[upperdeck]

For the sport of football they should just move the games to next week and give people time off.. for the business of football thats very hard to do..

 

[upperdeck]

One guy on Twitter with about 35,000 followers says he is a friend and marketing rep for Hamlin. Says his vitals have returned to normal. He has been sleep induced and is intubated. Tests being performed.

Incubating is not a good thing.. I think they often want to have people out when it happens to make a lot of the care easier.

 

[Cusefan69]

Not to be that guy but can we keep this thread just on the status of the player and treatment? Maybe a separate thread for NFL game scenarios. I am kinda interested in updates on the guy and not really interested in how the NFL should be handling at the moment.

 

[djorange1989]

The fundraiser goal was $2500. It’s over $830,000 now

 

[Xanadu]

Ryan Clark’s coverage with Scott Van Pelt on ABC has been excellent. His perspective as a former player and willingness to talk through the mindset of the teams and the players. Really tough, scary, and emotional situation. It’s wonderful to see initial reports are that Hamlin is alive and his body is able to be stabilized.

 

[OburgOrange]

 

[Cuse99&01]

Not every school. A work colleague has a charity in Fl that donates DeFibs for schools and youth sports teams.

Bo Kimble started a charity after Hank Gathers died to try and get AEDs into most high schools.

 

[upperdeck]

It does make you think how many times playing baseball stopping line drive 1 hoppers with a chest was the play and never realizing this was a thing that could happen.

 

[sdhall01]

I cannot believe it took an hour to postpone this game. I'm a Bengals fan, and I'd rather us forfeit than continue playing.

 

[Bulldog04]

His go fund me is up to $914k. I hope he rallies just so he can see how many people are there for him and support him. Hope this reaches millions and he’s able to be okay. He seems like a great young man

 

[SUGIANT]

I don’t think it was an injury.

 

[llandz]

One guy on Twitter with about 35,000 followers says he is a friend and marketing rep for Hamlin. Says his vitals have returned to normal. He has been sleep induced and is intubated. Tests being performed.

Yes. That is the tweet that has been referenced. He is a marketing rep from Pittsburgh so may be true. Also the Washington Post a few minutes ago reported this based on this persons tweet, so I am guessing they cleared who he is. Hoping what he is saying is correct.
Also the player from the Bengals who was involved in the tweet had his mother with him in the tunnel. Someone mentioned him also and ESPN just showed a photo of him walking arm in arm with his mother.

 

[llandz]

I cannot believe it took an hour to postpone this game. I'm a Bengals fan, and I'd rather us forfeit than continue playing.

I think the players knew sooner. When they showed players coming out of the locker room they were not dressed for football anymore. So, I just think they waited longer for the fans.

 

[hoopsupstate]

This makes the most sense based on how he just fell down.

 

[Cowtown]

I cannot believe it took an hour to postpone this game. I'm a Bengals fan, and I'd rather us forfeit than continue playing.

That's just for the official announcement. Consider it was obvious after about 10, maybe 15 minutes the game wasn't going to continue, announcement or no. Judging by what we saw there likely wasn't a protocol in place for such an occurrence, so the game officials and the league office were both "flying by the seat of their pants." Yes, the five minute thing was not good.

Hamlin was already in the best hands he could have been in from the injury forward. After they left the field, the players and coaches needed to be heard from, which had to be then relayed to the league office, and a decision made there. At that point it's all details and legalese - as in, "What liability do we have if we cancel, or if we don't?" It's my guess that prior to making an official announcement they also had to make sure all the i's were dotted and t's were crossed with the NFLPA

 

[stuckinbig11]

Was it football game related? I am thinking of Pete Maravich with an undiagnosed heart condition.

 

[FreakTalksAboutSU]

Was it football game related? I am thinking of Pete Maravich with an undiagnosed heart condition.

Reggie Lewis is the one that comes to mind for me but yeah.

 

[Cuseregular]

Was it football game related? I am thinking of Pete Maravich with an undiagnosed heart condition.

Yes football related not in giving the hit so much, meaning not spinal related, but accepting the severe deep hit to the chest causing an electrical rhythm malfunction inducing cardiac arrest is now the working theory. Very rare but not unheard of.

Good news is the percentages for recovery are positive and with him with The condition in general, especially in light of his youth, general health, and how quickly life-saving care was administered.

 

[007]

Yes football related not in giving the hit so much, meaning not spinal related, but accepting the severe deep hit to the chest causing an electrical rhythm malfunction inducing cardiac arrest is now the working theory. Very rare but not unheard of.

Good news is the percentages for recovery are positive and with him with The condition in general, especially in light of his youth, general health, and how quickly life-saving care was administered.

Great to hear your take on the working theory and the percentages for recovery. Thanks for the info Cuseregular

 

[NineOneSeven]

Yes football related not in giving the hit so much, meaning not spinal related, but accepting the severe deep hit to the chest causing an electrical rhythm malfunction inducing cardiac arrest is now the working theory. Very rare but not unheard of.

Good news is the percentages for recovery are positive and with him with The condition in general, especially in light of his youth, general health, and how quickly life-saving care was administered.

There is literally no “better” (obviously use of that word is for simple relativity) place for something like that to happen from a medical perspective unless it was inside the ER.

Even just at practice outcome could be different, I’d suspect.