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Troy Vincent is doubling down.
The NFL and ESPN have been in dispute over whether the league initially intended to continue Monday’s Bills-Bengals game after Buffalo safety Damar Hamlin collapsed on the field in cardiac arrest. On the ESPN broadcast, Joe Buck said officials were instructing players that they would have five minutes to warm up before resuming the game after Hamlin was transported to the hospital in an ambulance.
NFL executive vice president of football operations Troy Vincent denied this claim Monday night, and did so again on a media Zoom call on Wednesday.
“I just want to be clear,” Vincent said Wednesday. “Just that suggestion alone was inappropriate, 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.
Bills safety Damar Hamlin went into cardiac arrest during “Monday Night Football” against the Bengals.
