Ep. 731 - Damar Hamlin and fragility of life

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.8 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Happy New Year my friends. It's good to be back. But as sports fans, and just good citizens, it's a painful day after what can only be called a catastrophic near death experience that happened on live TV last night.

Damar Hamlin, a young defensive player for the Buffalo Bills, went into cardiac arrest after a hard hit, and appears to have basically died right there on the field until he was finally resuscitated with CPR and other techniques.

It is, perhaps, the most brutal moment for football - in a long list of brutal moments, but it also became a moment where Americans, even rival football fans, put aside their differences to pray and hope for the life of a young man that they most likely had never heard of before.And suddenly, we were no longer looking at a football field, but we were looking at mortality, at life, at death, and so much more.

Let's talk about it.

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0:00.0	Sometimes you just need to get away.
0:02.8	And for the Aglewall family, it was well over June.
0:05.5	They wanted to know exactly what they were getting,
0:08.0	like knowing their kids stay and eat a delicious breakfast for free.
0:11.6	Yes!
0:12.6	And no need to look heavy bags, with free parking at over 500 hotels.
0:17.4	Enjoy the same feeling whatever the trip.
0:19.8	Creme it in, rest easy.
0:21.9	Only available to book at cremierin.com.
0:24.6	A season sees a ply of two kids stay and eat breakfast free with a full paying adult.
0:30.6	I think last night was one of the lowest most difficult moments in modern sports history.
0:42.3	Painful, painful moment.
0:45.1	As a young 24-year-old brother named Amar Hamlin, who we've now learned is just a brilliant,
0:52.2	smart, good kid.
0:54.1	I'm 43, so 24.
0:57.1	My oldest daughter is 23.
0:59.4	And so, he went into cardiac arrest after a hit.
1:03.8	He's a defensive player.
1:06.4	It's, I think, like a 1 in a million kind of situation.
1:09.9	I mean, there have been millions of hits.
1:12.5	And in the NFL, they caused damage, permitted damage to bodies.
1:17.3	But after a hit, he went into cardiac arrest right there on the field.
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