NFL EVP Troy Vincent again denied that the NFL considered resuming play following Damar Hamlin’s collapse
of Monday night’s game against the Bengals, the entire NFL world held its breath. Fans across the country feared the worst as they watched NFL players crying on the field while Hamlin was administered CPR and loaded into an ambulance.
After the injury in real time, ESPN broadcaster Joe Buck said that teams were allowed five minutes to warm up before resuming play. Shortly after that decision was announced, though, the Bills and Bengals left the field and returned to the locker room, as theNFL executive vice president of football operations Troy Vincent while on a conference call with media shortly after the incident. On Wednesday, he doubled down on this.
“I was asked a question about this ‘return to play.’ I feel like I snapped, or I was hasty in my answer,” he said, per. “But I just want to be clear. Just that suggestion alone was inappropriate, it was insensitive, and frankly it lacked both empathy and compassion for Damar’s situation, who is still in the woods and is fighting for his life this day. It lacked complete and—it was just so insensitive to think we were even thinking about returning to play.
“There was constant communication in real time between ESPN and league and game officials,” the statement read. “As a result of that, we reported that we were told in the moment and immediately updated fans as new information was learned. This was an unprecedented, rapidly-evolving circumstance. All night long, we refrained from speculation.”
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