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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 ....
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 t ....
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 ....
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 ....
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 spo ....