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The Damar Hamlin Story: “Everybody I Talk to, I Say I Love You.”

ESPN Daily

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Sports

4.63.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Damar Hamlin’s name has been echoing across sports for the last two days. On Monday night, the 24-year-old Buffalo Bills safety collapsed on the field during the Bills-Bengals game in Cincinnati, where he was administered CPR and eventually taken to a Cincinnati hospital, where he remains in critical condition. Tyler Dunne, a Buffalo based journalist and founder of Go Long, a football focused newsletter, profiled Hamlin in 2021 after he’d been drafted by the Bills. As the world awaits additional updates on Hamlin’s condition, Dunne shares Hamlin’s story of resiliency and family, and paints a portrait of the man the entire world is just now learning about. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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So I'm not unpacking about people to know about you.

0:07.0

I mean honestly, outside of football, the only thing I could think of saying right now

0:12.0

is I'm big on family.

0:13.6

I'm big on my family unit.

0:15.6

My mom, my dad, my little brother, that's pretty much my whole world.

0:19.6

Outside of any other thing going on, my life revolves around them.

0:23.4

It's just how it's raised and that's just something I'm big on.

0:27.0

I would say fam.

0:36.6

That is the voice of Demar Hamlin from back in November.

0:40.4

The man whose voice we have not heard nearly enough of.

0:43.7

The man whose story we have watched by watching other people basically.

0:51.1

Which feels like a notably strange dynamic, right?

0:54.1

I mean, when the world usually finds itself watching a public person suffer.

0:59.4

Through some kind of tragedy, live, by the way, on television, the world usually has

1:06.1

a pretty good idea of who that person already is.

1:11.1

But to be perfectly honest here, I knew almost nothing about Demar Hamlin before he became

1:17.1

world famous, before his heart stopped, live on television.

1:22.8

Stopping this pivotal Monday night football game in the first quarter.

1:26.1

A game that may never be resumed.

1:28.7

At least not this week, according to the NFL.

1:31.8

I also didn't know what his face even looked like.

1:35.6

What the face of this 24 year old Bill's safety even resembled.

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