Monday night's game between the Cincinnati Bengals and the Buffalo Bills will not resume after being postponed due to Damar Hamlin's sudden cardiac arrest on the field, the NFL announced.
After Hamlin had been taken off the field in an ambulance, Joe Buck, ESPN's play-by-play announcer for"Monday Night Football," initially stated players would be given five minutes to warm up before play would resume. None of the players appeared to be getting ready, and the referees eventually announced that the game would be"temporarily suspended," prompting both teams to return to their respective locker rooms.
"I just want to be clear, just that suggestion alone was inappropriate," Vincent said Wednesday on a conference call with media, according to."It was insensitive and, frankly, it lacked both empathy and compassion for Damar's situation, who is still and was fighting for his life this day. It lacked complete, and it was just so insensitive to think that we were even thinking about returning to play.
McDermott said he then spoke with the team, and the players decided they could not continue playing. McDermott again spoke with the referees, a league official and Taylor, and all agreed to suspend play for the night, McDermott said. The resolution would make it so that the AFC Championship Game would be played at a neutral site if both teams that qualify could have possibly been the number 1 seed but one played a fewer number of games than the other.
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