Even if they had continued on with the game, nobody would've been playing at their best performance because of what happened to Damar. They'd have been far too distracted by their concern for his well-being
Every NFL fan was watching this game because it was such a crucial game and it was Monday Night Football. I’ll never forget how gracefully Scott Van Pelt and Ryan Clark handled the coverage after the game. We were all traumatized and they helped us through it.
I wasn’t watching, but I was following the live game thread on Reddit. It was scary reading everyone’s reactions, especially without being able to see what was going on.
The team’s medical and training staff received the Pat Tillman award at the ESPY’s. Damar presented it to them. It was a moment with lots of tears and gratitude.
The medical response teams are at every American football game, practice sessions as well, also college and even high schools. It's a rough sport every time they walk on that field, not just big games. Major injuries are prepared for. As a life long Cincinnatian, when that happened, we no longer cared what team had the injured player and who was rooting for who, that was all gone, every person in my area was Praying for him and his family and the Buffalo team members and fans. It was no longer a game it was a human life we all cared about.
I’ve had Bills season tickets for 8 years now. Every year me and my family plan a trip to 2 away game. Last season the first away game we went to was Miami. The second was Cincinnati. Was supposed to be the biggest game of the season. Everyone was so excited. It turned into the darkest sporting event I’ve ever been to. His first game back in the Ralph, Bills stadium however was the greatest most electric sporting event I’ve ever been to. 2 kick returns for TD’s. It was unreal
I saw it happen and it reminded me of how I felt during Ryan Newman’s wreck in 2020. I went did I just watch a man die? So glad he healed and so awesome the support he got from everyone If you receive a hard hit at just the right time in your hearts rhythm no matter how healthy you are it can start a heart attack, that’s what happened to him
I doubt very seriously that is what happened to him. I have heard several doctors say that if that happened it would be instant. He finished the tackle, got up and went to adjust his helmet. Everyone has stopped short of talking about the elephant in the room. We know what really happened.
As a Chiefs fan, all eyes were on that game for seeding purposes. But when that play happened…I was at a bar watching and I just felt sick to my stomach. He’s 25 - for me he’s a baby. I stayed glued to any updates I could find. Working in the healthcare field I was scared when they took him to the hospital with no sirens. Here in the states, no sirens means the absolute worst….I cried that night and I prayed for the next several days for him. It was hard watching the first set of games after the incident. But I gotta say…….that opening TD return gave me chills and I cried again lol. It wasn’t about rivalries anymore this was truly a human story. ❤💙
I'm not even a sports fan, but when I learned of what had happened, I immediately began praying for him. Incidents like this are one reason why sports just....aren't my thing. I've always hated seeing people get hurt, to the point that if an injury is severe enough it can very easily make me feel like I'm going to vomit. I also had a weak stomach when it came to excessive blood, gore, or graphic injuries when I was younger, thoguh it's not quite as bad anymore, I still get very uncomfortable seeing stuff like that. But what happened to Damar reminds me of something somewhat similar that happened to my uncle back in early 2006 (the latter half of my Senior year of High School). One night he suddenly woke up and began coughing up blood, and he was somehow able to drive himself to the hospital (to this day I still don't know why he didn't have my aunt drive him to the hospital instead). At first the doctors didn't know what was wrong, only that something was _very_ wrong, and that whatever it was was serious (coughing up blood is never a good sign, after all). And then they found out what was wrong, and that made the situation even more frightening for us: one of his heart valves had ruptured (or otherwise it was failing), and it was causing his lungs to fill with blood. The doctors put him into a medically-induced coma for nearly a month while they worked to drain the blood from his lungs in preparation for surgery to replace the damaged valve with a metal one. And if I remember right, the doctors only gave him a 40% chance of survival. And when the time came for him to go into surgery, they had a nurse running alongside his gurney literally pounding on his chest just to keep his heart beating. Thankfully he beat the odds, and if you met him today you'd never imagine he'd been through something like that. He also wasn't that old when it happened either, as he was only in his 40s at the time. That was by far the scariest month of my life, not knowing if I was about to lose my uncle....or if my cousins were about to lose their dad, if my aunt was about to lose her husband, if my mom & aunt were about to lose their little brother, or if my grandmother was about to lose her only son.
Another crazy thing about the kickoff return is that there last kickoff return for a touchdown was exactly 3 years and 3 months before that. And Demar Hamlins number is 3
All NFL teams must have a doctor present at every game. And the closest Level 1Trauma hospital is on standby during every game due to how brutal the games can get.
I remember some newscaster saying that if anyone was going to experience what Damar Hamlin did, the best place for it to happen was at an NFL game, because of all the medical personnel that are there. I prayed for him continually and was so happy he recovered. Very scary.
I remember that game it definitely was scary. And yes he already announced like a month or two ago that he will be playing next season. And also it really wasn't lucky because if he wasn't at the game and didn't get tackled he would have been perfectly fine it was the fact that he got tackled at that time during his heart stuff ( ps I'm not a doctor I don't know words) that he had the heart attack but all that matters is that he is okay 🙏 and definitely no hate to Tee Higgins.
When i saw the ambulance on the field I knew it was very serious. Never in my 48 years of watching the NFL have I seen that. I told my wife "They can't resume this game now" If they would have, it would have been a heartless thing to do.
We was at my parents house eating and watching the game. Both of my parents said he's had a heart attack as soon as he dropped. My Dad had a minor heart attack but my mom has the zipper due to a quad heart bypass. Yea, I got this on both sides of my family. My mom never had a heart attack she just had tremendous pain. She has a major defect to her heart that runs high in her family. If I'm going to get the defect it will show up in the next 5 years. I have so many family members that have the zipper. My brother in law had the zipper before 50. He smoked heavy since 14 and it destroyed his heart. Seeing what people have to go through I'm very worried but I just have to on. My sister smokes like a chimney and I'm worried about her. This incident is something my family has went through way too much. Please take care of yourselves and help one another.
I turned the game on just after the ambulance left the feild and i was getting so pissed at how the broadcast wouldn't stop talking about rescheduling the game
I remember seeing this live…Texted my Wife (shes a huge Sport fan)….said “someone may have just died”. So happy to see a full recovery. I have a heart condition that was discovered while in high school…my heart condition “Bacterial Endocarditis” (damages valves)…fairly Common ….young athletes drop dead from the condition i have too often. This wasn’t the outcome nor same condition…but my head went there immediately.
The Buffalo Bills medical staff ALL deserve LIFETIME passes for the Superbowl. Their courageous actions brought a dead man back to life on that field. And I'm not even a buffalo Bills fan. I support my Seattle Seahawks.
Funny how close the hospital was once again. For Eriksen it was like a few dozen yards from the field to get to one of the best hospital in Denmark. Both were incredibly lucky to be able to make a basically full recovery.
The NFL requires that a local trauma center to be available and two ambulances be at the stadium. And there are team doctors with each team. Dude wasn't lucky to have that medical help, he chose to play a sport so dangerous that medical teams are necessary. Even at the high school level there is usually an ambulance at the game. First time I got into a game was because the guy ahead of me had his knee shattered.
I know this is gonna sound like I’m just making it up to go with the moment but I’ve been a bills fan all my life (it’s been pretty short I’m only 16) and I went to the bills vs Steelers game that season (38-3 Bills win) and I remember the defense showing up and I remember seeing this guy wearing the number 3 jersey acting super hyper and hyping everyone up and I asked my dad who it was and he said he wasn’t sure it was a new guy since many of our defensive players had been injured that season and from then on when I was watching the defense I kept an eye out for number 3 and when he made a good play I’d go “Let’s go that’s my guy right there” or something like that and I did the same for this play right before he collapsed and it was a long one hour stretch before I turned my eyes away from the game
As a Bills fan I closed my entire company down the following day because I was so distraught. It is a violent game, but as someone who has had to perform CPR the idea of performing life saving CPR for 18 minutes and seeing the looks on the players faces really mindfucked me. We want the players to get stuck in and fucking mangle each other. We don't want deaths on the field. I cried the entire time, and I don't even think I cried at my own grandfather's funeral. I am so happy that the Bills medical staff are some of the best in the world. They saved Kevin Everett quick enough that a lifetime of paralysis ended up with him walking out to present a reward without any walking aid. When Ryan Shazier was paralyzed in Pittsburgh he was sent up to Buffalo to get treatment.
I always enjoy your video's "British Guy"!!!! I am from Buffalo [GO BILLS!!!!] and I plan on crossing the pond next year to visit the UK!! I cannot wait!
I've said this before but it Bears repeating. The people of Cincinnati the Bengals organization and especially the team of Dr nurses and staff at the hospital deserve the biggest praise from all of us. The support they showed to that young man his family and to the bills organization is one of the greatest things I've witnessed in my 57yrs on this rock ❤ From a greatful steelers fan.
The truth is: the best place to go into cardiac arrest is probably on the field during a sports event, with medical professionals, ambulances and defibrillators only meters from you.
He went into cardiac arrest because he got hit in the chest and it put his heart out of rhythm. It’s called commotio cordis. It’s pretty rare but is more seen in sports like baseball and lacrosse where players get hit in the chest with balls.
Bahaha yeah the fact that this exact type of injury has lead to heart attacks before Covid suddenly doesn't exist😂 Not to mention anti vaxxers promised everyone the vaccine would make people glow in the dark and be magnetized and to date no one has gotten a superpower. But taking medical advice from the same people who think JFK Jr is gonna rise from the dead to be Trump's running mate in 2024 can't ever go wrong lol
no it wasn't dumbass, it was a condition known as Commotio Cordis that happened to him. It happens when you're hit above the heart as its in between beats and it throws it out of rhythm and causes cardiac arrest, it's rare but it occurs more in sports than anything, and happens most often in hockey and baseball
And the awareness of CPR and what it can do to save a life was just astronomical after this game and a lot of people learn how to do CPR because of it so it's saving more lives in just his
There is medical staff at every game, practice, all of it. Even in HS we had a trainer who could perform basic medical. I think there is even an ambulance at the ready in the NFL, but I'm not 100% on that.
I was just saying that another person I watch was featured. The Hamlin story is amazing and uplifting. I love happy endings that show everyone coming together.
The same level of medical staff is on the field for every game. This is not just because it was a big game. All medical staff on each team is trained for this.
this was not the scariest day in nfl history. chuck hughes of the detroit lions died on the field in the early 70's. detroit linebacker reggie brown also nearly died on the field in 1997.
Bahaha yeah cause this exact injury causing heart attacks before Covid suddenly can't be explained by anti vaxxers. Also y'all promised everyone the vaccine would make people glow in the dark and become magnetized and to date no one has gotten any superpowers so you guys suck for making false promises.
Ehhh not the "scariest day in nfl history" just something easy for ESPN aka disney and nfl film to make an easy $ off of.. have had people die on the field and not be brought back, have had people with broken necks and backs and paralized for life..
Right on the beginning he says "i don't really want to get into talking about that" Why the hell do you agree to an interview about the near death incident if you don't want to talk about it at all. So dumb
This comment is so dumb. He's talking about his recovery. Being that he basically died standing on his feet might not be something he wants to go into detail about. Don't be stupid
Joe I know you're currently doing MLB baseball right about now but you need to get a social media other than TH-cam and just get it going like Instagram in Snapchat like me also what are you going to do more be a pro series... I know Happy Gilmore want the Stanley cup when are we going to see it happen?.
Yeah, I remember that night, I was getting ready for a good game until that happened. They did the right thing by not continuing the game.
They didn't do anything right as far as that game was concerned.
@@riddikk187 Ur crazy. Teammates shouldn’t have to play after seeing that happen to him
Even if they had continued on with the game, nobody would've been playing at their best performance because of what happened to Damar. They'd have been far too distracted by their concern for his well-being
Every NFL fan was watching this game because it was such a crucial game and it was Monday Night Football. I’ll never forget how gracefully Scott Van Pelt and Ryan Clark handled the coverage after the game. We were all traumatized and they helped us through it.
I so agree with you. Particularly Ryan Clark
I wasn’t watching, but I was following the live game thread on Reddit. It was scary reading everyone’s reactions, especially without being able to see what was going on.
The team’s medical and training staff received the Pat Tillman award at the ESPY’s. Damar presented it to them. It was a moment with lots of tears and gratitude.
The medical response teams are at every American football game, practice sessions as well, also college and even high schools. It's a rough sport every time they walk on that field, not just big games. Major injuries are prepared for. As a life long Cincinnatian, when that happened, we no longer cared what team had the injured player and who was rooting for who, that was all gone, every person in my area was Praying for him and his family and the Buffalo team members and fans. It was no longer a game it was a human life we all cared about.
I’ve had Bills season tickets for 8 years now. Every year me and my family plan a trip to 2 away game. Last season the first away game we went to was Miami. The second was Cincinnati. Was supposed to be the biggest game of the season. Everyone was so excited. It turned into the darkest sporting event I’ve ever been to. His first game back in the Ralph, Bills stadium however was the greatest most electric sporting event I’ve ever been to. 2 kick returns for TD’s. It was unreal
i also went to that bengals-bils game, it was tragic
I saw it happen and it reminded me of how I felt during Ryan Newman’s wreck in 2020. I went did I just watch a man die? So glad he healed and so awesome the support he got from everyone
If you receive a hard hit at just the right time in your hearts rhythm no matter how healthy you are it can start a heart attack, that’s what happened to him
I doubt very seriously that is what happened to him. I have heard several doctors say that if that happened it would be instant. He finished the tackle, got up and went to adjust his helmet. Everyone has stopped short of talking about the elephant in the room. We know what really happened.
As a Chiefs fan, all eyes were on that game for seeding purposes. But when that play happened…I was at a bar watching and I just felt sick to my stomach. He’s 25 - for me he’s a baby. I stayed glued to any updates I could find. Working in the healthcare field I was scared when they took him to the hospital with no sirens. Here in the states, no sirens means the absolute worst….I cried that night and I prayed for the next several days for him. It was hard watching the first set of games after the incident. But I gotta say…….that opening TD return gave me chills and I cried again lol. It wasn’t about rivalries anymore this was truly a human story. ❤💙
Thank you so much, from a Bills fan. It was tough for us, but even tougher for Damar.
I'm not even a sports fan, but when I learned of what had happened, I immediately began praying for him. Incidents like this are one reason why sports just....aren't my thing. I've always hated seeing people get hurt, to the point that if an injury is severe enough it can very easily make me feel like I'm going to vomit. I also had a weak stomach when it came to excessive blood, gore, or graphic injuries when I was younger, thoguh it's not quite as bad anymore, I still get very uncomfortable seeing stuff like that.
But what happened to Damar reminds me of something somewhat similar that happened to my uncle back in early 2006 (the latter half of my Senior year of High School). One night he suddenly woke up and began coughing up blood, and he was somehow able to drive himself to the hospital (to this day I still don't know why he didn't have my aunt drive him to the hospital instead). At first the doctors didn't know what was wrong, only that something was _very_ wrong, and that whatever it was was serious (coughing up blood is never a good sign, after all). And then they found out what was wrong, and that made the situation even more frightening for us: one of his heart valves had ruptured (or otherwise it was failing), and it was causing his lungs to fill with blood. The doctors put him into a medically-induced coma for nearly a month while they worked to drain the blood from his lungs in preparation for surgery to replace the damaged valve with a metal one. And if I remember right, the doctors only gave him a 40% chance of survival. And when the time came for him to go into surgery, they had a nurse running alongside his gurney literally pounding on his chest just to keep his heart beating. Thankfully he beat the odds, and if you met him today you'd never imagine he'd been through something like that. He also wasn't that old when it happened either, as he was only in his 40s at the time. That was by far the scariest month of my life, not knowing if I was about to lose my uncle....or if my cousins were about to lose their dad, if my aunt was about to lose her husband, if my mom & aunt were about to lose their little brother, or if my grandmother was about to lose her only son.
Another crazy thing about the kickoff return is that there last kickoff return for a touchdown was exactly 3 years and 3 months before that. And Demar Hamlins number is 3
All NFL teams must have a doctor present at every game. And the closest Level 1Trauma hospital is on standby during every game due to how brutal the games can get.
I remember some newscaster saying that if anyone was going to experience what Damar Hamlin did, the best place for it to happen was at an NFL game, because of all the medical personnel that are there. I prayed for him continually and was so happy he recovered. Very scary.
I remember that game it definitely was scary. And yes he already announced like a month or two ago that he will be playing next season. And also it really wasn't lucky because if he wasn't at the game and didn't get tackled he would have been perfectly fine it was the fact that he got tackled at that time during his heart stuff ( ps I'm not a doctor I don't know words) that he had the heart attack but all that matters is that he is okay 🙏 and definitely no hate to Tee Higgins.
When i saw the ambulance on the field I knew it was very serious. Never in my 48 years of watching the NFL have I seen that.
I told my wife "They can't resume this game now"
If they would have, it would have been a heartless thing to do.
They definitely made the right call in waving it off. Scary stuff.
We was at my parents house eating and watching the game. Both of my parents said he's had a heart attack as soon as he dropped. My Dad had a minor heart attack but my mom has the zipper due to a quad heart bypass. Yea, I got this on both sides of my family. My mom never had a heart attack she just had tremendous pain. She has a major defect to her heart that runs high in her family. If I'm going to get the defect it will show up in the next 5 years. I have so many family members that have the zipper. My brother in law had the zipper before 50. He smoked heavy since 14 and it destroyed his heart. Seeing what people have to go through I'm very worried but I just have to on. My sister smokes like a chimney and I'm worried about her. This incident is something my family has went through way too much. Please take care of yourselves and help one another.
I turned the game on just after the ambulance left the feild and i was getting so pissed at how the broadcast wouldn't stop talking about rescheduling the game
I remember seeing this live…Texted my Wife (shes a huge Sport fan)….said “someone may have just died”.
So happy to see a full recovery.
I have a heart condition that was discovered while in high school…my heart condition “Bacterial Endocarditis” (damages valves)…fairly Common ….young athletes drop dead from the condition i have too often.
This wasn’t the outcome nor same condition…but my head went there immediately.
The only game in NFL history to be expunged from all record books.
Wait really?
did they keep any of the stats at all or just remove them, as if they never happened?
@@michaeljones155 I believe they counted player stats, but both the Bills and Bengals only played sixteen games that season officially
The Buffalo Bills medical staff ALL deserve LIFETIME passes for the Superbowl. Their courageous actions brought a dead man back to life on that field.
And I'm not even a buffalo Bills fan. I support my Seattle Seahawks.
Funny how close the hospital was once again.
For Eriksen it was like a few dozen yards from the field to get to one of the best hospital in Denmark.
Both were incredibly lucky to be able to make a basically full recovery.
Thank you for waiting to make this video. I appreciate your respect for the situation.
It was the players and coaches who refuse to play. FUcking Goodall wanted them to continue
i cant believe at first the league was like "alright, 5 minutes to get back into the game"
The NFL requires that a local trauma center to be available and two ambulances be at the stadium. And there are team doctors with each team.
Dude wasn't lucky to have that medical help, he chose to play a sport so dangerous that medical teams are necessary. Even at the high school level there is usually an ambulance at the game.
First time I got into a game was because the guy ahead of me had his knee shattered.
I know this is gonna sound like I’m just making it up to go with the moment but I’ve been a bills fan all my life (it’s been pretty short I’m only 16) and I went to the bills vs Steelers game that season (38-3 Bills win) and I remember the defense showing up and I remember seeing this guy wearing the number 3 jersey acting super hyper and hyping everyone up and I asked my dad who it was and he said he wasn’t sure it was a new guy since many of our defensive players had been injured that season and from then on when I was watching the defense I kept an eye out for number 3 and when he made a good play I’d go “Let’s go that’s my guy right there” or something like that and I did the same for this play right before he collapsed and it was a long one hour stretch before I turned my eyes away from the game
I will never forget this night. Good lord its the scariest thing to watch. Cant imagine what it was like for the fans and his family that was there.
As a Bills fan I closed my entire company down the following day because I was so distraught. It is a violent game, but as someone who has had to perform CPR the idea of performing life saving CPR for 18 minutes and seeing the looks on the players faces really mindfucked me. We want the players to get stuck in and fucking mangle each other. We don't want deaths on the field. I cried the entire time, and I don't even think I cried at my own grandfather's funeral. I am so happy that the Bills medical staff are some of the best in the world. They saved Kevin Everett quick enough that a lifetime of paralysis ended up with him walking out to present a reward without any walking aid. When Ryan Shazier was paralyzed in Pittsburgh he was sent up to Buffalo to get treatment.
I always enjoy your video's "British Guy"!!!! I am from Buffalo [GO BILLS!!!!] and I plan on crossing the pond next year to visit the UK!! I cannot wait!
I've said this before but it Bears repeating. The people of Cincinnati the Bengals organization and especially the team of Dr nurses and staff at the hospital deserve the biggest praise from all of us. The support they showed to that young man his family and to the bills organization is one of the greatest things I've witnessed in my 57yrs on this rock ❤
From a greatful steelers fan.
The truth is: the best place to go into cardiac arrest is probably on the field during a sports event, with medical professionals, ambulances and defibrillators only meters from you.
Honestly good point. Most people aren’t as lucky as football players
He went into cardiac arrest because he got hit in the chest and it put his heart out of rhythm. It’s called commotio cordis. It’s pretty rare but is more seen in sports like baseball and lacrosse where players get hit in the chest with balls.
When bound by a common denominator, Americans are amazing people.
Not only it happened in front of those fans but millions of people watched it happen
Great video!
The jiggy jab!
Bahaha yeah the fact that this exact type of injury has lead to heart attacks before Covid suddenly doesn't exist😂 Not to mention anti vaxxers promised everyone the vaccine would make people glow in the dark and be magnetized and to date no one has gotten a superpower. But taking medical advice from the same people who think JFK Jr is gonna rise from the dead to be Trump's running mate in 2024 can't ever go wrong lol
no it wasn't dumbass, it was a condition known as Commotio Cordis that happened to him. It happens when you're hit above the heart as its in between beats and it throws it out of rhythm and causes cardiac arrest, it's rare but it occurs more in sports than anything, and happens most often in hockey and baseball
And the awareness of CPR and what it can do to save a life was just astronomical after this game and a lot of people learn how to do CPR because of it so it's saving more lives in just his
Lol I think I saw a little bit of jealousy/sarcasm when they showed the other British reactor lol
Emergency Medical and ambulances are always available during games, since football can be a dangerous game.
They had every right to end the game right there
Health first man 🙏
10:31 Random Kabir sighting lol
There is medical staff at every game, practice, all of it. Even in HS we had a trainer who could perform basic medical. I think there is even an ambulance at the ready in the NFL, but I'm not 100% on that.
Another British TH-camr was shown reacting. His name is Kabir. I also watch his channel.
I saw his reaction to Damar.
ok?
I was just saying that another person I watch was featured. The Hamlin story is amazing and uplifting. I love happy endings that show everyone coming together.
There has been only 1 on the field death in NFL history. Chuck Hughes, heart attack, 1971.
Medical staff is at every pro sport event, whether it's a big game or not.
The only time the Shield has done the right thing in a long time
The same level of medical staff is on the field for every game. This is not just because it was a big game. All medical staff on each team is trained for this.
this was not the scariest day in nfl history. chuck hughes of the detroit lions died on the field in the early 70's. detroit linebacker reggie brown also nearly died on the field in 1997.
Kudos to the UC medical team.
Was February 2 2023
This did ot speak about the emotioal trauma the guy who tackled him felt. Not sure he will be the same
Can you do Sean Taylor
Staby poke. Poke
Bahaha yeah cause this exact injury causing heart attacks before Covid suddenly can't be explained by anti vaxxers. Also y'all promised everyone the vaccine would make people glow in the dark and become magnetized and to date no one has gotten any superpowers so you guys suck for making false promises.
Ehhh not the "scariest day in nfl history" just something easy for ESPN aka disney and nfl film to make an easy $ off of.. have had people die on the field and not be brought back, have had people with broken necks and backs and paralized for life..
just 1 person died on the field i think, idk who it was though, I think a lions player
@@michaeljones155 Charles Frederick Hughes
Right on the beginning he says "i don't really want to get into talking about that"
Why the hell do you agree to an interview about the near death incident if you don't want to talk about it at all. So dumb
This comment is so dumb. He's talking about his recovery. Being that he basically died standing on his feet might not be something he wants to go into detail about. Don't be stupid
Joe I know you're currently doing MLB baseball right about now but you need to get a social media other than TH-cam and just get it going like Instagram in Snapchat like me also what are you going to do more be a pro series... I know Happy Gilmore want the Stanley cup when are we going to see it happen?.
Its about respect