our breaking news, what happened tonight on the field during monday night football? buffalo bills safety de mar handle, and in critical condition after collapsing. he is number three on the buffalo bills. he was hit during the first quarter of tonight s game between the bills and the cincinnati bengals. that s according to the nfl that he fell on his back, just moments after getting up from an open field tackle, a bengals wide receiver tee higgins. the buffalo bills team trainer got to him within ten seconds after he collapsed. an ambulance was brought on to the field. and he was even administered cpr. i want to go back to cnn s chief correspondent, sanjay gupta, cnn contributor, bob costa and nfl analyst former nfl linebacker emmanuel acho. doctor gupta, sanjay, just thinking about what has happened here tonight and there is a lot of uncertainty. we do not have all the answers obviously. he s in critical condition. we have seen what happened. there was the collapse and getti
circumstance that triggered this event with hamlin can also happen in baseball. a line drive back to the mound, it s the picture in the chest at just the wrong moment, had just the wrong spot on the chest. the very same thing could happen. so, and that sense, it is not unique to football. is it like common sense, more likely in the game whether it s violent contact on almost every play? yes. it is more likely, but it s not more unique to football. doctor gupta, on that point, there is a thing that obviously stands out. we re talking about baseball versus football on particular. and i think about putting, and mission ali. and you ve seen some time, when you have a player who is up at the plate and they may have a shoulder, sort of a protective gear on one side. it only indicates that they ve likely been hit before in that area. and there were of what s that like, and they re wearing something from your over over to cover themselves. the padding might be distinctive. but i still wonder
happening to this young man right now in the hospital. yes, laura, i played six of my seasons in buffalo. and i played safety just like tomorrow. and just watching that game tonight, as a fan, you know chairing my team, on wearing my colors. when i saw him fall, i knew there was something different. you, know i have a titanium plates and four scores of my neck. i was knocked unconscious four times in my career. one, i didn t happen until the next day. but i ve been in similar situations that those players on that feel felt tonight. when i was playing with the buffalo bills in 2007, my teammate from the university of miami was covering a kick together any hit the wedge and he just fell to the ground like a lip balloon. and he was paralyzed on that play. there were the ambulance, there were the, huddles there that were the tears. when i was in college at stanford university my teammate running back hit university of
not only from, most importantly, a human perspective but also in terms of public relations and the public reaction to that, in a social media world. that would be a very bad look to the nfl. so i think both for cold business reasons, and most importantly for humane reasons, they decided to postpone the game. we also, learned i want to bring in doctor sanjay gupta on that point bob. doctor sanjay gupta, we re learning this evening that we have been expecting the possibility of a possibly that there might be some updates from the hospital whether there would ve been are not, but we are learning that there will not be tonight, a press conference, coming from the hospital. i know in the, world were often accustomed to this new cycle and we have patience of perhaps a toddler. it s often expected that we will get updates as soon as we
unmade up at some point i guess the tickets for tonight s game, if they do make it, up they would be good. and perhaps there would be refunds for the bengal ticket holders if the game is not played at all. because obviously, the game was not played to a conclusion or anything close to it because the injury occurred in the first quarter. all of that is very secondary, and they did the right thing. the game was the only thing, natural attention, on a monday night. they did the right thing because it could very well have happened, and i don t need to speak so bluntly but suppose they had decided that, okay, they took the young man off the field, they gave him cpr, they used a different broiler, he s on his way to the hospital an ambulance. pull yourself together after a few minutes and play the game. and then let s suppose that word came from the hospital, in the middle of the game that he had died. that would be horrible.