Damar Hamlin Football Injury

[Caroline13]

I've been following this horrible near death football tragedy of this 24 yr old and I believe there is so much that we won't know. I have my theory.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/02/s...bills-hit.html

[opus]

Originally Posted by Caroline13

I've been following this horrible near death football tragedy of this 24 yr old and I believe there is so much that we won't know. I have my theory.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/02/s...bills-hit.html

I hope your theory is Commotio cordis, because that’s where all signs are pointing. Best to Damar…..

Commotio cordis (Latin, "agitation of the heart") is an often lethal disruption of heart rhythm that occurs as a result of a blow to the area directly over the heart (the precordial region) at a critical time during the cycle of a heartbeat.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commotio_cordis

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What is cardiac arrest? What to know after Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin's hospitalization

[TJ]

It was scary to watch. It looked like he just got hit in the chest or heart. He was able to get up after making the tackle. Then he just fell back and collapsed.

All the real doctors and medical experts are saying commotio cordis.

Thoughts and prayers for Damar and his family.

[Caroline13]

We'll Never know the Real Reason, there are so many factors involved. He was dead and it took like 9 minutes to resusitate his heart, so I'm hearing. Just hearing now, no change and still in critical condition.

TJ, what does your "real doctors" comment mean?

[opus]

His original goal was $2,500

Donations to Damar Hamlin’s toy drive exceed $4.6 million

[TJ]

Originally Posted by Caroline13

We'll Never know the Real Reason, there are so many factors involved. He was dead and it took like 9 minutes to resusitate his heart, so I'm hearing. Just hearing now, no change and still in critical condition.

TJ, what does your "real doctors" comment mean?

"We'll never know the real reason" isn't a good reason for you to continue making threads like this with your wild speculation.

There aren't any other factors involved in this case. He wasn't on the sideline when this happened. Did you even watch the video?

I mean real doctors who aren't trying to push their agendas and conspiracy theories.

[MrCleveland]

No matter what...pray for his family....

[Dude111]

Yes I am...... I am very scared for all

[TMC]

Monday Night Football tragedy was the most upsetting football event ever broadcast

Bill Goodykoontz
Arizona Republic

“We’re talking about life and death here. We’re getting further and further away from talking about football.”

That’s what Joe Buck, part of ESPN’s broadcast team for “Monday Night Football,” said after the Buffalo Bills’ Damar Hamlin collapsed on the field after making a tackle in the first quarter of the game between the Bills and the Cincinnati Bengals.

And he was right.

Emergency medical staff administered CPR for several minutes; Hamlin was taken by ambulance to a hospital in Cincinnati, where the game was played. The Bills later released a statement saying Hamlin suffered a cardiac arrest, "his heartbeat was restored on the field" and he is sedated and in critical condition.

It was agonizing, terrifying, surreal — the biggest shock during live coverage of an NFL game since Howard Cosell announced the death of John Lennon during a Monday night game in 1980. And that, obviously, was not something that happened on the field. Buck, Troy Aikman and the ESPN broadcast crew handled it with the shock and concern the situation warranted.

It took the NFL more than an hour to suspend the game after Hamlin collapsed

“This is as heavy as it gets,” Scott Van Pelt said on his ESPN show after the game was suspended — a decision that took more than an hour, to the chagrin of social media as well as the broadcast team.

“As has been said many times already, who cares” about the game now, Buck said as he and everyone else waited for the NFL to make a decision. Any decision, though the correct one was obvious.

“This is about Damar Hamlin, his health and how he is at the moment, and what his status is,” Buck said.

What took the NFL so long to come to the same conclusion?

You know the answer. Money.

NFL games are by far the biggest ratings winners on broadcast TV, and calling off a game calls off a lot of advertising revenue. The Bills-Bengals matchup was the most attractive game of the season for “Monday Night Football,” which has suffered through some awful games since Buck and Aikman joined ESPN before the season started.

How CNN, Fox and MSNBC reacted to Damar Hamlin's collapse

Like with any breaking news story — and as soon as CPR was administered, this stopped being a sports story and absolutely became a news story — there was a frustrating lull once we learned all there was to know at that point.

CNN, Fox News and MSNBC all jumped in on live coverage and stayed with the story for hours. It soon became a waiting game, waiting for updates on Hamlin’s condition. This is a difficult part of reporting a story, particularly on TV, and in a competitive environment it can go wrong in about 50 different ways. Channel surfing isn’t a foolproof method of observation, but I didn't notice anyone at any of the networks jumping to irresponsible conclusions.

Buck and Aikman were saddled with a lot of down time and little information — what Buck called “a holding pattern” — other than what they and everyone else had witnessed. That’s a particularly fraught situation, but they handled it well.

“I don’t think the players are going to want or be willing to go out and take the field until they know he’s OK,” Aikman said, later adding, “I just don’t know how any of these players can come out and play football tonight.”

Tragedy and shocking injury are not unknown to live sporting events. Joe Theismann’s famously snapped leg during “Monday Night Football” during 1985 was, for a generation, the biggest gut punch imaginable. In 1990 Loyola Marymount basketball player Hank Gathers collapsed on the court during the West Coast Conference tournament and died later that day.

Ryan Clark's perspective on ESPN was especially welcome

But the enormous popularity of the NFL made this feel different. You could tell in the way Buck, Aikman, Van Pelt and sideline reporter Lisa Salters talked about the situation and the reaction. They seemed shellshocked; at one point Salters’ voice cracked, understandably so — she was down on the field when Hamlin collapsed.

Ryan Clark joined Van Pelt on ESPN after coverage of the game ceased. He was outstanding. A former player, he pulled no punches. “Tonight we got to see a side of football that is extremely ugly,” Clark said. “A side of football that no one ever wants to see, or never wants to admit exists.”

We have to admit it now. It will be interesting to see whether this changes the way we watch. An incident like this is one of those things, as several commentators alluded to, that we know in the back of our minds can happen, but we assume won’t.

“This is not a football issue,” Van Pelt said. “It’s not a Buffalo issue or a Cincinnati issue or a sports issue. It’s a human being issue.”

As Clark suggested, it always has been. We just choose to ignore it.

No longer.

[Caroline13]

Dude: This Blue Marble has an extensiive post on this " unusual" near death event of Damar. And many of them who watch so much football for so much of their lives, say
they never saw anything like what Damar went thru.

Correction Dude: I read the extensive thread on the Seniors forum I'm a member. Now I'll go check The Blue Marble to see what they are saying about t his "unusual" accident.

[TJ]

Originally Posted by Caroline13

We'll Never know the Real Reason, there are so many factors involved. He was dead and it took like 9 minutes to resusitate his heart, so I'm hearing. Just hearing now, no change and still in critical condition.

TJ, what does your "real doctors" comment mean?

Caroline13,

Why did you put "Football Accident" in your thread title? You know this wasn't a vaccine related injury.

Would you agree that if a player gets violently hit in his/her chest or heart with a helmet, baseball, puck or any type of ball that it could cause commotio cordis?

[Caroline13]

Oh TJ: It's a major football tagedy, that is why. And there is more and more speculation WHY as the days go on. Since Damar is in a brain induced coma, will he ever be the same if he comes out ot?

Pray for this young man.

[TJ]

Originally Posted by Caroline13

Oh TJ: It's a major football tagedy, that is why. And there is more and more speculation WHY as the days go on. Since Damar is in a brain induced coma, will he ever be the same if he comes out ot?

Pray for this young man.

You can't even answer the questions.

Can you please tell me any well known doctor or cardiologist who says his cardiac arrest was caused by the vaccines and not the violent hit to his chest or heart?

People have never seen anything like it happen because it's such a rare event.

Watch this video where it happened to a hockey player after he was struck by a puck in his chest.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S1Dfs8hgR4

[Wawwie]

Originally Posted by opus

I don’t believe a pre existing heart condition is necessary for what happened. It involves a bad timing series of events that’s rare but common enough to have a name ———

Commotio cordis (Latin, "agitation or disruption of the heart") is an often lethal disruption of heart rhythm that occurs as a result of a blow to the area directly over the heart (the precordial region) at a critical time during the cycle of a heartbeat.

Usa Today says:

Originally Posted by USA Today

It is usually caused by abnormalities of the heart, which are often inherited but can remain undiagnosed and go undetected.