game. bob, what s your reaction to that tonight? well, it was the right thing to do with all things considered and this game has playoff implications which are significant or in significant rather alongside a player s condition. but it is not like baseball where you can just play the next game and then decide that they re going to keep the buffalo bills and cincinnati bengals in town on planet tuesday night. and they re moving towards the playoffs. so they re going to have to decide whether they simply cancel the game and the buffalo bills cincinnati bengals play 16 games while everyone else in the game play 17. both were short of making the playoffs. the seeding was still in doubt. so perhaps they ll just say, look will just freeze it right where it is in this game will be played at all. because it s very difficult if they are gonna push it to next week, the playoff start the week after that and there will still be another game to play. so it is a scheduling problem. what our side i
the football side of it. which admittedly is the last important side. to see a game postponed like this, it is not something we have seen before. this is a moment. no, we have seen entire slates of games postponed. for example after 9/11. but generally speaking, football is not comparable to baseball. you play a doubleheader, you play almost every day so there is a rain out or some other circumstance. you play the next day. football is not like that. the bills have gone back. and it s quite was just saying, there are playoff implications. both of these teams are going to be in the playoff. but the seeding. in this year, again you have to stipulate this as we talk about the football side. it is very secondary. but since it is part of the story here. there is only one bye now. each conference, seven teams make the playoffs. but only the number one seat gets a buy. and it does not have to play in
league. was drafted in the sixth round out of pittsburgh. playing monday night football. feeling like he is on top of the world. this was a huge game. huge playoff implications. and he gets this traumatic injury. that opens up scars for me personally. i m a former safety for the buffalo bills. i played six seasons there. had a teammate of mine who was paralyzed on the field. they re in buffalo. i had a teammate in college. when i was playing at stanford university. we are playing against the washington huskies. my teammate hit their safety. and curtis williams. number 25, he was paralyzed from the waist down. two years later, he died, passed away from complications from the paralysis. these players, are witnessing things that will haunt them. it gets me worked up thinking about some of the things i experienced. i am proud as a former player. that the nfl, that those two
other people were as well. this was i believe you are a bengals fan. it came out of the rose bowl. people have been looking forward to this monday night football game for weeks because of the match-up between joe burrow, josh allen and playoff implications at stake here. everyone in the nfl was watching. if you aren t a big sports fan, this is the signature event alongside sunday night football where the nation is watching one game. to your point we ve seen 5,000 hits, 10,000 hits in an nfl game that are far less severe than the one that we showed at the beginning of this segment and so as you watched him collapse, that was obviously incredibly ominous to see but it also wasn t something that seemed to be directly connected in the same way where somebody hit somebody and their head has to immediately be stabilized, which is typically what we see in
on twitter to damar s number 3 jersey request the quote pray for damar. people looking for ways to help have flooded his charity for donations raising nearly $5 million for kids of pittsburgh. in response this afternoon the hamlin family said we are deeply moved by the prayers, kind words and donations from fans around the country. your generosity and compassion mean the world to us. please keep damar in your prayers. we will release updates as soon as we have them. now, a far less important question in all of this is the status of last night s unfinished game which has major playoff implications for both teams. the nfl says the bills-bengals matchup will no not be resumed s week and no decisions whether or not it will be played at all at a later date. bret? bret: garrett tenney in our midwest bureau. thanks. florida governor ron desantis was sworn in for second term today in his inaugural address he attributed florida s growing population to his administration s support for