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
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 l
, 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
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
and the piece i was working on is whether there can be greater precautionary measures taken from professional to amateur and youth levels. and those measures included twofold, is there chest protection that can be word and is there an aed valuable. well there s both of those things available when it comes to professional football which to me only highlights sometimes in a game like football or lacrosse or baseball or anything that is physical, you cannot protect yourself ultimately against all of the dangers involved, not just in life, but in that sport. that is not a diagnosis. that is not me speculating what happened to damar hamlin. but it is perfect spigot from me covering sports and what i have watched in sports. i hope for the best and that it wasn t one of these scenarios and damar, his friends and his family have my prayers. jason: well said, will. you know, i played college football, albeit being a place