0 unfortunately, given the circumstances, jason obviously not used to coming on to talk about this like a lot of people out there. i mean, this was a really big game for people out there who are not nfl fans bills being goals monday night football. huge game to really excellent franchises. having very good season like a lot of people. i was sitting down watching this game coming right out of the rose bowl. it's a big day for college football and the nfl and, uh, you know, a really exciting start. and then this incident which happens and for those of us who have watched football, uh, for our whole lives are played, coached it. you see players get hurt, but this just what and felt different than what usually happens and so everybody watching it in real time, uh, knew that it was very serious and obviously it is. it is a heart wrenching moment for foreign of health and for everyone out there, and certainly for this young man and his family. yeah the speed and veracity of what happens in the nfl is second to none. i mean, i once upon a time was a placekicker on a college team and the speed of the hits and the violence that happened, but the nfl is a whole nother level as best i can tell clay, though, is it? you know, it was a clean hit. it wasn't something, um, out of the notes that out of the out of the ordinary, this person plays safety. they're going to be involved in these kinds of hits. he's one of the most well tuned athletes that there can be, but i think players and coaches and everybody there on the field just instantaneously knew something was wrong, and that's why the medical help got there as quickly as it did. yeah, no doubt and if you watched the play there was a hit. if this was not a situation every now and then you see, somebody have to be a mobilized because of the way that their head hits into the you worry about paralysis. he made the hit got up and then collapsed. you know, almost as if passing out instantly and you could see sometimes you know this having been on the field, but you can see sometimes the severity of a of an intrigued by how players on both teams react and immediately waved over the medical staff. and for damar hamlin, that's what you saw on this field at that point in time and again. this is a 24 year old player, played at the university of pittsburgh in his in his undergrad, sixth round pick of the bills. uh huh. and right now that they basically have suspended the game, and i think again, i'm watching it in real time. all of the stadium is filtering out. i think it's hard pressed to believe that this game well, in any way be able to be played. um tonight as everybody waits to see what's going to happen with this player, and i would just say again, it's unprecedented for sports fans out there who may remember this and i think this was in the early 19 nineties. jason uh, basketball player by the name of hank gathers collapsed. i believe he played for loyola marymount. back in the day. bo kimble was one of his teammates. uh and he collapsed on the court reggie lewis for people who are boston celtics fans and may remember him that wasn't in the game the hank gathers collapsed was in a game. these are relatively rare incidents to happen in athletic contest itself, where you have a serious illness like this serious injury like this serious medical condition like this, where they're having to uh, did you cpr to an athlete, and we just don't expect it because obviously young 20 something in early thirties athletes in the peak of their physical condition. we're just not used to seeing things like this happen, so you almost have to go back. historically almost 20 years, at least in my mind as a sports fan to think about that hank gathers experience for people out there who remember him as a great basketball player for loyal and miramonte back in the day. um and his collapsed. that is when i saw this happen kind of in my head immediately. when i started thinking of, because as you mentioned, jason, this was not a you know, football hit in the context of oh, we've got to get this guy immobilized on the field. we've got to put a neck brace on him. uh you know, we're worried about paralysis. this was he made the hit got up at the hit did not look particularly, you know, dangerous and then, uh, and then collapsed almost immediately thereafter. well we're talking about tomorrow. hamlin and as we await the, uh some further word about his health and situation the collapsed they had to administer cpr there on the field. um medical doctors were right there. on the scenes. the ambulance took him to the nearby hospital as his protocol . um and we just hope that he recovers sooner rather than later and gets back to full and complete health. it is a very scary situation. fox news can confirm that the game has been suspended. uh they'll be further word as to when the conclusion of this game or another game will be played. but right now, all the word and all the focus is on tamar hamlin, his family him personally. the greater bill's family at the nfl family and those that just care. about a young man who's living the american dream playing in the nfl, who's going through some very, very difficult situation tonight? um clay any other thoughts or perspectives? yeah look, um, the couple of things one. the bengals fans. remember this is a road game for people out there who may not be familiar with this. the bengals are playing against the bills here in cincinnati, and you could hear a pin drop on the field the way that both of these teams, nelson prayer, uh , for hamlin as they were trying to figure out exactly what is going on. and what had happened to him, um and then look at the amount of time and you know you just had a doctor on discussing it. i think initially there was the hope. you know, sometimes you'll get a report from the hospital. hey this is the prognosis this person and then they'll come on television and they'll say it. hey, you know that player that went off that we got the report from the hospital. that's the only thing that i can think of in terms of the decision that was made to try to pause on spending this game, uh and even in theory, play it. the commissioner has the authority roger goodell to make the choice here. it seems like and again, i say it seems like the two coaches basically agreed in this situation. hey. our teams are in no position to play this game. we're not talking about somebody who got to hurt me or broken arm or right injuries that you would anticipate and that they basically took it upon themselves to say we're going back to the locker room. the mental state of both these teams, frankly, after what they just witnessed on the field is not conducive to being able to complete this game. um and so ah, you know what, exactly? i mean for people out there who are not nfl fans. this is, uh, the next to last week of the regular season, they expanded the season 2 17 games. uh and so there there are theoretically one week left in the regular season. this was the last game of the 16th game . 17 scenes season, so that kind of puts into perspective where we are, but certainly the competitive aspects right now are far down the sort of prognosis as everybody tries to wait and see what the situation is going to be here. yeah. the two coaches met with the referees. the decision was made to suspend the game. i can't imagine asking the players to continue on. i think all those players there there's a there's a competitiveness against, but there's still all part of that nfl family and i think they all know. hey that could have been me. that could have been. you know, my brother. that could have been somebody next to it. so it's a small, you know, nfl teams are not that big guys. you know you're talking about 54 guys who dress for a game. uh it's not as if this is some they they all know each other so well. they know each other's families they know, you know, immediately. uh the impact here is just so staggering and the game has officially been postponed. i think you said, and the cincinnati bengals stadium now basically empty um and, uh, you know, at this point, we just have to wait and see what what the prognosis is , and certainly for everybody out there watching, uh, to certainly parade for the best in in what i said, is, frankly, an unprecedented situation even for long time nfl fans. i can't think about an experience like this. that's why i went back to hank gathers. ah and in terms of an endgame collapse of magnitude, such as this. we're talking about damar hamlin. he plays for the buffalo bills. he's a safety was involved in a routine play, um, and collapsed . cpr was administered. he was taken to the hospital. now, i'd like to read an nfl statement on the bills game and it, says the nfl statement on the bills bengals game tonight. buffalo bills versus the cincinnati bengals game has been postponed. after buffalo bills damar hamlin collapsed, nfl commissioner roger goodell announced hamlin received immediate medical attention on the field by team and independent medical staff and local paramedics. he was then transported to a local hospital , where he is in critical condition. our thoughts are with them are and the buffalo bills. we will provide more information as it becomes available. the nfl has been a constant communication with the nfl players association, which is an agreement with the postponement of the game. we're not going to be joined by fox news host brian kilmeade. brian you've seen a lot of sports in your life. what's your assessment of what's going on right here? but i mean it was routine. you know it, you know, is a brutal sport. it's tackle football. it's contact. this looks to be a shot to the chest, and it reminded me reminiscent of what we're there was stories and youth sports, especially across if you especially as a kid when he only crossbows into the chest. it could stop your heart. and if you see what happens oftentimes what happens, the kid will get up. and fall flat back on his back, and that seems to be something very similar to what we witnessed not a medical doctor, but seeing a lot of sports injuries and tragic situations, but the thing is that that situation does happen. you need to get immediate medical care and they had it. they had immediately went to oxygen number one you can always tell how serious and injury is. um you know, in soccer, you know, when you see these guys die of all the time to try to get calls, but you could tell when it's serious. when you see the trainers sprint out, same thing with football. no one takes it or takes dives, but you can see how serious it is how the other players react reminiscent of lawrence taylor snapping joe theismann's leg. everyone's saying what a great sacked taylor's looks on his face was get the medical team out here. this isn't about sports anymore , and that's what this was the minute he fell to the ground. everybody knew this is real. this is serious when they want to lift them up initially and then put them flat down again. and they immediately started doing cpr. and then you see the player bracing each other and both teams getting together. you just know this isn't one of those things where let's keep our fingers crossed and hope. you know it's serious, and that's why they spirited him out. that's why you can't imagine playing football even though the two best teams arguably in football, we're playing over the most anticipated games of the season . they stop full stop, and i don't have any criticism you have felt for waiting. they got to make sure it really happens. but for the league everybody got used to reschedule because of covid. how many times did you hear about a game was not going to happen because four or five players had covid so that was not life or death, thankfully for players in the prime of their life to test positive, but they quickly had to take a major sports and reschedule the whole thing, so they're used to it. and you can see the studio crew in espn doesn't really know how to react, and neither did the players and even the commission not being there but calling in with smart, getting together, not panicking, but making all the focus about the player. you almost knew what had happened. they're not playing football again. they did wait a little bit to get some answers. but it's all about, uh, even though it's full contact sport. it's how they hit happened and we're it hit and it looked high to the chest. yeah it's dr siegel came on earlier and indicated that those types of things can happen. even somebody who's is , uh, is fine of a specimen as you can in terms of their physical nature. those nfl safeties are about as tough as they get. and we're talking about damar hamlin, who after a routine hit, uh, was a collapsed they had to administer cpr. um and now based on a statement issued by the nfl, uh this young man is in is in critical condition at the at the local hospital. the game has been suspended. um let's bring on and bring back now. jim grace, uh, one of the most notable sportscasters, uh , and a fox news contributor. jim what's your additional thoughts as you look at the scene unfolding now? well we can only hope and pray for the best to hear that he at least is in condition. critical condition. it's you don't want to say that's a positive sign that somebody's in critical condition. but, you know, you're just hoping that it's not the worst. i mean, again. i was at a game broadcasting a game on nbc with edinburgh and, um. phil simms and paul mcguire and we had a player reggie brown go down and cpr was performed. this was the 1997 season. i believe 96 97, perhaps, and they took him off . and those folks at the stadium saved his life. and, uh um it was after a pretty rough tackle. but fairly routine and the same type of thing, um, happened, uh, somebody else just mentioned play, or whoever else was on just before about hank gathers. uh that was horrible situation. but um, um , let's just hope that the medical those who were attending and the medical people were able to attend to him. with the proximity and having the best people on that field at that time, get him to the hospital, but he's going to be able to survive this. well. fox news can confirm that he is in critical condition. we're seeing additional photos and reporting like this, but you know when these types of hits happen you, can you the players know the people in the field now they knew almost instantaneously. now, hopefully he'll be okay because of the swift nature of the medical care that was given there that we're talking, of course about damar. hamblin is a safety for the buffalo bills. they were playing against the cincinnati back. angles. after a hit, which by all accounts is a good clean hit the person i'm sure who made the hit because just beside themselves, um, but in the four family, jim, i can only imagine what the family of damar hamlin is going through. um you're playing in the nfl. you're on monday night football. um you know, it's the new year. um and then for this to happen, i can't even imagine the trauma that that family is going through right now. well, it's just awful when you sit with families during these games, and you know these families and i've had the good fortune to sit with many of these families. they're hoping that their son get up after every play. and that is their first hope. then they want them to win the game and to play well, but their first hope every play and their fear every play is what's going to happen and what could happen. and again, everybody. everybody playing is injured. so everybody has something you know that is bothering them. right now. we're in week 16 of the 17 game season, so everybody's been injured. um the good news here if there is such a thing as good news is the best medical people are in the stadiums, and they have people to transport people with tremendous efficiency and immediately no matter what the problem is that could occur on the field is and so he's getting the best medical attention. um but, yeah, for the family. i mean, and these teams have hopes of, uh, you know their dreams. both of these teams dreams are still all in front of them for super bowl. uh possible championship and it's just it's just really sad way. ah at this moment, um, to see this happen. and you know, if you're around these teams, you know that they're all brothers and sisters. you know they they care for each other. they're in close proximity every single day. let's go back now to fox news medical contributor mark segal . dr siegel, we're talking about tomorrow. hamblin of course, and you know, it seemed like a routine play. this is a safety for the buffalo bills who's engaged in hits. i don't know how many times during the season and a game, but this didn't seem like it. it was extreme. and yet there are other factors that could come in to in and you haven't examined this person and we haven't been given a medical report. but we did know that he collapsed and we didn't know that he was administered cpr and that he is in critical condition at the local cincinnati hospital. so what are your thoughts at this point? well, you know, jim gray and brian kilmeade just said things that are very relevant here, which is first of all, brian reported that it was a high hit to the chest, and that's transmitted. even if it doesn't look like it. it's transmitted torque to the heart . and most of the time, nothing happens. but you could have an underlying tendency or something can rupture. you can get a bruise. you can have bleeding. and that leads to a traumatic cardiac arrest where you go into an arrhythmia or your heart stops. the rapidity of the response is actually and as jim gray just said, and they use oxygen, as brian said, correct and also intravenous fluids. they use fluid resuscitation, and they try to get him to the hospital university of cincinnati medical center, where he probably is excellent trauma center. and the good news if there is good news is that the reporting him in critical condition most of the time. in a situation like this person doesn't make it to the hospital, he would automatically being critical condition and the situation like this, but this implies and again. i don't have the actual complete knowledge of this. that he made it past the cpr stage and that his heart rhythm is back then, if that's true, the question then comes. what is the down time? what is the issue with oxygen to the brain and the brain goes through a period without enough oxygen? that's what you worry about the most. if in fact, he made it to that stage where he's in critical condition, and we hope and pray that he wakes up. certainly everybody's thoughts and prayers are with them. of course, we're talking about tomorrow. hamlin that the safety for the buffalo bills one of the most exceptional safeties, fine physical specimen, by every way, we can tell. i mean, if you play safety in the nfl, you are very fit individual. that's scary that something like this is that dramatic can happen. i guess the good news that i read from that dr siegel is that medical care was right there. it was literally yards away. they were able to get there as quickly as possible. he saw the ambulance come on the field and get him to the hospital as quickly as possible. well, let's bring in now. fox news host will cain will like to get your perspective your thoughts on this. you follow sports very closely and i understand. i think that the gravity of what's happening in that state stadium for the family of damar hamlin and the greater nfl family as a whole. yeah jason, i can just like to start with sending, you know, obviously, our prayers and thoughts to damar and his family tonight. you know, outside of dr siegel. none of the rest of us are doctors. so you know, i wouldn't want to speculate. we the best we can do is offer perspective. i'll tell you this. jason listening to brian. one of my very first pieces that i worked on when i worked for espn and outside the line was on myocardial contusion, and we don't know. i don't know if that's what happened with them are jason, but it's certainly true in lacrosse or baseball that there. although rare, there are instances of athletes taking a hit to the chest. and it's suddenly disrupting the rhythm and effectiveness of the heart tomorrow. him hamlin's hit tonight really, honestly, for any football fan looked like nothing at all out of the ordinary, not particularly violent, not particularly dangerous and to see him get up is also not something you normally see when you see a catastrophic injury, so it's just shocking. well none of us know exactly what happened. i heard clay. you know, it's interesting sports is just such a collective consciousness. for all of us. it's our memory. it's our nostalgia. we go through these things together. i was in the car with my son's on the way home from the family christmas. listening to this on the radio, and i was explaining to my sons. the story of hank gathers and i heard clay mention hank gathers jim as well earlier, the only other instance that i could even think of you know of similar is a two years ago, jason and european soccer at the euro 20. twenties christian eriksen, a very famous worldwide soccer player just dropped on the soccer field, and he was brought back and many people say it's a miracle. but there were moments there where his heart just stopped again. i don't know. i don't know if any of this has a connection to what happened to damar hamlin tonight, but where my thoughts went immediately to hank gathers to christian eriks and , uh, to that piece i worked on espn. we'll find out soon. whether not here has any relationship to the march hamlin but again, i think the most relevant thing now is to think of his family. think of him and think of his teammates tonight. yeah you can see the both teams gathering there in prayer. the coaches got together with the referee's. this is the decision by the nfl to suspend the game. don't know when that's when that's going to be rescheduled. but the most important thing i think here is tomorrow. hamlin and the divine intervention that can happen in cases like this and the prayers that are that are offered offered up and so grateful for those first responders who get there and they've done the training, right? they've taken all the time they they've gone to school and then there suddenly. dealt with this. this is playing out on national television in front of all of us and one of the healthiest athletes that there could possibly be and yet all across this country. there's going to be a car accident. there's gonna be some industrial accidents will be something that happens. that's devastating. the whole world may not be watching, but i think we all feel it in her heart. i think those players know that. hey that could have been me and there on that field, hitting and playing as hard as they can. and then this type of tragedy happens now. hopefully he'll pull through it. he is in critical condition is there to cincinnati hospital ? um but for a young man who's his healthy and vibrant as he is, i hope he's somehow some way able to overcome this, but, uh well, i gotta tell you, it tugs at everybody's hearts. we can name sort of the famous ones we've seen on television. but this is going to happen in your neighborhood, my neighborhood and all across this country. yeah you said when it's going to happen in these tragic accidents that happened in all of our lives. you're absolutely right. you know, i think what what happens here? jason is these types of moments look, we all pour a lot of emotion. i can't i love sports. in a way so many people you have on the phone loves sports is many people listening. love sports is because it's something we shared together, you know, and we bond to these teams and to these individuals, and you're absolutely right. while tragedy happens across this country on a personal level for so many people listening, this is what we experienced together. but we have even to experienced this particular type of situation. we just haven't jim brought up. reggie brown. i remember that, you know, and that's what you've come to expect in football like a violent traumatic injury, and this one is just so shocking in that it's out of the norm, and i think like, like you, said, jason, we all deal with things on our own individual level. but this is one we experience together. this is sports is the best of us because it brings us together. and then when it gives us the worst as well, we come through this ordeal with this together. yeah you know, it's the new year. there's a lot of optimism in the air. it's the holidays. it's uh, it's monday night football. everybody's enjoying themselves . i can't even imagine what tamar hamlin's family is going through right now. but as you're watching this video tape, you can see that the players know very quickly that this is this is out of the norm . this is something dramatic. let's bring back now out kick founder clay travis, who's joining us on the line. clay additional thoughts and what's playing out here in in cincinnati. well i mean, i heard well, and i've heard your other guests have been watching and texting and trying to get as much information as we can and i just come back to this is really an unprecedented situation. um in in the nfl that i can remember. um and again. we've seen guys who have , uh, you know, had hits where it looks like they're they're in danger. they need to be immobilized for paralysis. i don't ever remember seeing anyone given cpr. on a football field and an nfl game before i just don't recall ever having seen that happen, and as you could see, the players recognize what was going on around them on both sides. it's chilling to watch happen in real time. and i also think, look, i mean, you know the world of sports as well said is , uh, you know the long way that's described as you know, sort of the toy chest of life. it's where people go to escape . oftentimes this serious things that are going on. and suddenly you go from the main story being joe burrow versus josh allen bills versus bengals , who's going to be the number one seed in the a f. c and everybody cares about that, but it's entertainment to a life or death situation on the field, and it's just not something that we have ever experienced in the modern era of nfl life like this, and i think i started off by saying what i mean. this was a monday night football game. and what i mean by that for people who are not big sports fans, and they're like, hey, what's going on here? everybody watches the same game on monday night. uh, you know, for people out there who are not huge sports fans on sunday, you might get a regional telecast. this is where sort of the nfl football family comes together, and everybody watches one game. so everybody is experiencing this in real time to put it further into context. this came straight out of the rose bowl. jason and the rose bowl is one of the iconic college football games of the year. so this was kind of a celebration of football in this game had been much ballyhooed in height, and then early on, suddenly, you have sort of this jaw dropping. intersection of entertainment in the real world, and i think players i think coach is certainly everybody watching. it has been overwhelmed by the direction that this story went. that had nothing that anybody would have anticipated. um and as we continue to wait to see what's gonna happen tomorrow, hamill and that's the primary story this point. of course we're talking about tomorrow. hamlin who is the safety for the buffalo bills? routine hit nothing in particular about this hit certainly wasn't uh, you know, over the top in terms of its aggressiveness, it was a clean hit. um yet they went down, got up, but then collapsed. cpr was administered . he was taken to a local hospital. he is in critical condition, according to his statement from the from the nfl . but let's now bring back fox news host brian kilmeade, who i believe has some insight, brian so in looking at this hit a few people have reached out and contacted me before you guys are now going live and then go into the next hour about what could have happened on a routine hit. it's not amount of the routine hit. it was where it was hit. and what it what it looked to be is a shot to the heart. and what is it looks like a condition called komodo corgis from people who have seen this outside. i think i mentioned earlier. you know the cross game. the reason why you have defibrillators on every side line is a kid 12 13 year old got hit in the chest with a crossbow right when it's in between beats of his heart, and he died. and they said if he could have got a defibrillator, if there was one there, he would have survived. and the reason why we see these these areas in airports and everywhere else and most games in parks and in games like this, and you saw one on the field today is to bring back the heart. if it gets you get shot if you get to take a shot in the chest from a ball or a helmet or a tackle, and it looks by the by the way he reacted the way he took the shed shot in the chest and stood up flat straight up, and then bell straight back. it's a it's the key for him, and it's great news. it is great news that he is in critical condition because critical condition means he's still alive. and this, according to dr brian donahue, the chief cardiologist at the university of pittsburgh, medical centers and extensive work on this, he just told me it's a rhythm disturbance in the heart, and when he stood up and fell back, that's indicative of the same thing that they've been studying at the hospital in various clinics to try to get additional protection for everything from firefighters to athletes, and this looks to see the something that he seemed repeatedly. and the key would be how quick you can get that aid machine recognizing this is his heart. that there's not spinal. you recognize that you've got to take the shirt off to recognize that everything is intact. once it is, you reach for the pulse. if there's no pulse, you get the defibrillator on the body on the heart and the quicker you get it the better chance for full recovery and that's why this is so serious, and that's why he thinks it is good news that critical condition. normally not a great thing is, jim gray said. but in this case is a good sign. well we can only hope and pray that it is you're seeing the video of the players as it happened in that collapse. we don't know definitively what the diagnosis is. we do know that there was cpr administer. we do know that he went to the hospital. the nfl has specifically announced that it was that he is in critical condition we're talking about tamar hamlin. the safety for the buffalo bills. um and you know this doctor and other doctors. i'm sure watching this type of broadcast can recognize some things i would say. dr siegel just texted me. he believes it is the signs are similar, and he backs up with dr donna. you just said for, um pc so you can speculate about what happened. we know it's critical. you know , it's serious. we know the best news is this is the biggest and most experienced league with the best resources in the biggest game. with the most attention, so this is not a game in which you cut corners on medical things. cut corners on ambulances and you cut corners on equipment and quality. so the good news is that this is indeed the case. everything possible is being done, but amedeo corgis. you have? yeah. you have doctors. you have paramedics. you have an ambulance literally yards away from the field of the game. the administer administration of that that medical attention. i'm sure is pivotal and you're talking about oxygen and those types of things and your heart again. we do not have an official conclusive diagnosis. what we do know conclusively from the nfl, at least what they are issuing in terms of a statement is that damar hamlin is in a local hospital. he is in critical condition. game has been suspended, uh, and will further await what the nfl says about the postponement or the replaying of the game or what they're going to do. we're going to bring now. michelle tafoya. she's a former sideline reporter for nbc. sports michelle you've been on the sidelines lots of these games. you you know how hard and how fast these people play some of the best athletes in the world , but it's pretty rare to see something as dramatic as is playing out there in cincinnati. what are your thoughts? yeah i think the closest i can come. we can recall pittsburgh steelers ryan shay. they're having that dreadful hit and ending up, you know, partially paralyzed for some time i actually covered the game where head coach gary kubiak of the texans collapsed right at the beginning of halftime and a game against the colts back in 2013, and we didn't know what was happening. the difference here and what makes this so disturbing and alarming is the players reactions. you can tell a lot by that because they are seeing they are hearing there, witnessing up close things that the rest of us can't see. and the camera work done tonight was so respectful in that way. he no one's going to speculate right now. i think i think there has been some some good analysis here of what might be the problem, but it's i think, also dangerous to speculate when we are talking to the treating doctors. so you know, i just pray for this kid. he's 24 years old, his mom sitting there in the stands watching him. and there's nothing worse than seeing a player stuff for a life threatening injury and i , that's all we know. right? that's all we can do is wait and pray. yeah every every parent who's watched their you're their young one play, whether it's a little game of soccer or basketball, or or, you know any time anybody goes down, certainly in football. i think it was said earlier. you just hope first and foremost that they get back up. and because it is a violent sport, it is a very violent sport. and, um and yet you can see that the referees backed off almost immediately. you can see that the players take off their helmets. they kneel down. i think they backed up very quickly. you see how quickly and swiftly the medical attention there. they're already you know, pretty quickly thereafter, they're calling for that ambulance to be brought out. you see players on both sides of the field, kneeling and praying and then getting together on the field and actually going into prayer. there. we know that the coaches and the referees met shortly thereafter they decided to suspend the game. um the nfl has suspended the game and we do know that tamar hamlin as last reported about 15 20 minutes ago. uh that tamar hamlin is in critical condition, but he is at the hospital and you can only hope and pray that this young man, one of the a very fit athlete is able to overcome whatever kind of hit or trauma that he went through in order to deal with that. um can i can i just say one thing is yes. just about the way that the nfl handled this roger goodell in the league are going to take a lot of criticism for initially saying, oh, teak. okay, teams have five minutes to regroup and come back out on the field. that is an initial reaction that you set up because you've never seen anything like this. i think someone said on twitter tonight. there's no playbook for a situation like this. so people are condemning how long it took the lead to make this decision. i think so many conversations had to be had before. you can just, you know, just cancel or postpone a game and so look, we can all be critical. that's really not. the point here tonight. the point is this kid this young man who you know, i was out there just living his dream, and we just hope to goodness and pray to god that he is okay. we're talking about tomorrow. hamlin michele tafoya . thank you for joining us tonight on this most unfortunate circumstance here. but tomorrow, hamlin, who is the safety for the buffalo bills playing in there in his monday night game? um it was involved in a hit got up, but then immediately collapsed. um he was then administered cpr taking the local hospital. he is in critical condition, according to the nfl. let's bring back jim gray sportscaster and fox news contributor jim additional thoughts. well, you know, there's everybody is kind of spoken about what they have seen in the past and what has gone on and, um look there. there now studying this timeline. it looked like it was about a half an hour from the time that the incident occurred on the field that he was transported to the hospital, where he now is in this critical condition again. this isn't good news that he's in critical condition, but it's very good news that he is alive. um based on what could be and it's just going to it's just gonna have to play out now with the medical people, and hopefully he's going to be okay. and again. we don't have any of his medical details or background information as to what has gone on to him. and then the other circumstances. so um, but most players in the nfl, jason they have been rigorously tested. they have had physical after physical and you know if there was something that had happened before this in all instances, if it was his heart, um the public would know . certainly the club would know and he probably wouldn't be out on the field. yeah, it is. look, it's a violent sport and things injuries happen and they happen on a regular basis. i think you've made the point jim several times. most of these players have been injured or playing with with injuries this deep into the season, but this is such a rare occurrence. there's not one player out there on the field. jason that's healthy, not one. now there's degrees. the degrees are you know what it is? that's bothering them, but everybody has some make some pain, some more debilitating than others. some play through it some don't some are physically incapacitated, and they can't play through it. but everybody right now it's week 16 in an nfl season. this is a long, long marathon, and it's a game of attrition. and with the speed and the violence of the game and the powerful people that are playing it, um all of these guys are really hurt again. i take you back to. i was broadcasting that game on nbc when reggie brown went down and when the medical authorities went out there and performed cpr, and, um i was actually told on the sidelines by one of the players. a man named herman moore, who ran off the field crying that they didn't believe that he was alive. and turned out much better news after he got to the hospital and was alive and was able to survive that. so you know the instance that we get this information now, in an age now that was back in 1996 or 97 . you know these 25 years later , you know, everything is much more instantaneous. the fact that we know that he is a lie, and i heard the doctor say before on on the air here, you know that's a great time because a lot of folks just don't survive the cpr. they don't survive getting to the hospital. so for his family and for everybody concerned, and for all of the fans and just everybody in general, you know that's a that's a piece of relieving news. now, let's just hope that whatever damage has been done, he's able to fully recover and recuperate. yes we're talking about damar hamlin, a safety for the buffalo bills. we want to move now to w x i x reporter joe danamon in cincinnati for the latest. joe. what's what? what are you hearing? joe danamon there in cincinnati reporter with w x i x are you there? are you you're able to give us an update. we'll try to bring joe back up. this happened in cincinnati to have a local reporter there in cincinnati would be ideal when we get up that link and that signal will try to bring him to you. but let's have for now. go back to jim gray. we're looking at that footage there. jim uh, just happened a little while ago. i can't even imagine what the players who you know these are the brothers if you will of damar hamlin. they live in close proximity. they are as close and tight of a family as their as their their blood relatives. when you're playing on an nfl team together, um, the heartache that's happening in both those locker rooms and now as they as they leave the stadium, i can't even imagine well, that's truly is a brotherhood and these guys love each other. they found the heck out of each other while they're on the field, and they want to beat each other's brains, and then they want to win. and guess what? the second it's over their trading jerseys. they're smiling. they're laughing. they're hugging each other. even during the games. sometimes you see some vicious hits. the other guy helps the other guy out there, smiling. they're taunting each other. they're kidding each other so they really do care deeply about each other. none of them can understand it. nobody in the general public. any of us can really understand what it is that these guys go through the 53 man roster or 70 guys on , you know, with practice squads and so forth, and you multiply that out times the 27 32 teams, so we're talking about 23 2400 guys. okay they understand what this is, and they truly care and love about love each other, and they know that at any one single play anyone single play at any time, whether it's ryan shay's there , whether it's joseph iceman, uh, whether it's anybody who gets hurt that the play that they're playing could be the last play that they will ever have again on a football field , and only those guys know that . but nobody expects that it's going to be their last breath. nobody expects that they won't be back at work in a day or two, or at least be in proximity. where they you know, can be visited. so this is what the anomaly and this is. what is so much different here in this instance and for the game to be to be called off and you know look, people are talking about criticism and so forth. and if you look online, you know they're only as good as the information that they have . all right. a lot of times, guys. we don't see guys getting cpr on the field, but a lot of times. you know that that somebody that's been taken off . it's a traumatic experience and you see the guy huddle and pray together and whether it's a tornado cl or a brain. uh concussion or something. you know, that's that's significant. everybody knows. you know that's that's heartbreaking for that player and for his family and for that team. the team and so far as they don't want to see one of their brethren go down, and they don't want to lose one of their best players because it's very important to them because they're in a competition and competing to be the best in the world. these teams these two teams tonight are competing for a super bowl championship and for home field advantage and for the playoffs, and so the competition level is just it's just that a fever pitch and it's, uh, it's only something really that somebody who has been in that arena can understand and i've been fortunate in my career to be down on the sidelines, and i've often wondered jason, how does anybody ever get up after any one of these places? it's just that fast that powerful that violent and guys get right back up and they go back to the huddle, and they do it all over again. and you wonder. wow these are special. these folks are special people and you know, physical fitness that they have to have, um, to be able to do this, uh, is beyond anybody's really wildest imagination. i mean, a lot of people walked and you know a lot of our viewers. there are into physical fitness, but it's nothing like this. nothing

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