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with the cincinnati bangles, hamlin was injured after he made a hit in the first quarter of monday night football game, the nfl has postponed the game indefinitely. them are helen remained on the field for about ten minutes normal medical teams gave him osuna cpr. is now in critical condition at the university of cincinnati medical center. because families there by the his side and bills fans and bengal fans have now gathered outside in prayer at the hospital. there's still a lot we don't know about the situation, where standing by for all the latest information from the nfl, where the medical staff that are treating him. on to bring in journalist msnbc contributor mark leibovitz, it is also the author of the book the big game the nfl in dangerous times. dangerous is certainly the word we're talking about tonight mark, what's your reaction to what we've seen? >> well, i, mean it's stunning. like everyone, we don't have a lot of information on this. but i think this goes to the

incredible leap of faith we all take a sports fans in some way. if your personal conscience you watch this and you can't help but be sickened and disgusted and horrified by the reality the we all know intuitively which is that these people put themselves at great risk and that the side of your rain and saying okay pass and nachos let's watch the game. it's sort of striking that the immediate thought was, okay, when does that can continue? this is unprecedented. it hasn't happened -- you see very sees, injuries you see sort of emts called on the field occasionally, but this is next level, as to sort of hard to get your head around what it can mean, other than a young man seems to be in very very critical condition right now,. >> hard to get our head around but may be needed for for sports fans and enthusiasts who

appreciate what these players sacrifice when they're playing this level football game to perform for us. >> yeah, it is an amazing thing i think a lot of people again they notice intuitively there is a kind of moral resonance that goes on in the heads of a lot of sports fans certainly around football which we know intuitively can really do long term damage to the people who play it and i'm not playing it but i watch tray. something that we all kind of grapple with and we sort of put off to the side and we watch our games and we root for teams and then all of a sudden something like this happens and you're right stephanie, if that is sort of wake up everyone to the sort of deep moral imperative of what this is my sense is that that there is a process that you sort of focus

on for this if you're a few days and eventually there's a resilience to the sort of nfl life that the normalcy sort of a bounce and i think as we saw tonight the league's first impulse was let's continue the game i think obviously better heads prevailed for both teams and both coaches and i think we saw the right decision was made the decision was the game is postponed. obviously everyone was focused on tamar hamlin tonight and what a situation is and i think hopefully we can just hope for the best here. >> how tricky is this for the nfl? obviously this man's life this team and their ability to get their head around this is the most important thing but we only have a week left in the season and nfl's big big business if nothing else? we are heading to the playoffs they didn't cancel it immediately. >> yeah, i mean look at the nfl

the early indications here is they're not very good in these situations. they are a really good marketing organization, they are good promotional organization, but when life untruths, or cultural realities and truth, or health and safety and things that, that roger goodall, the commissioner, has done a really -- he does a really clumsy job, and i think this was kind of evidence tonight. at the same time, it's a really tough call. as you, mentioned it's very big business. cancel an nfl game, especially primetime monday night football, against two very good teams, is a big deal, and playoff start in two weeks, this is a big weekend coming up now. how do you proceed? i think obviously, they're probably talking about right now, trying to figure out how you sort of get these games in, beginning with this one. whether you can try to get this played at all.

but i don't think there's anything the league can sort of do right, now except wait and see what the condition is, for a good outcome of it's possible, and i obviously would repel this decision forward. >> for business decision, i think it's a really tricky proposition, i don't typically handle these things very well, hate to say. >> despite all that money that they're all getting paid, right organization. mark, stay with, us i want to bring into this conversation, sean gregory, his times senior sports correspondent, sean, even covering sports for years. no one has ever seen anything like this, a player on the field, receiving cpr. what went through your mind? >> we've heard a lot tonight, and so true, it's very surreal, trying to think back. an nfl game, a sporting event where we saw cpr, or heard

about cpr being applied. -- so it was kind of a national, this is monday night football. and he mentioned several times in the past hour, stephanie, about how there is such anticipation for this game there was, so close to the -- two high powered teams, to upstart teams, two super bowl contenders. and that all went away, as we hoped in played, but tomorrow having lane is gonna be okay, hopefully he'll be okay. it hasn't happened, in any sporting event, i'm trying to think of comparisons, and the only one that really came to mind, was a nascar race when

dale earnhardt got into a crash after the daytona 500, that race was over, and in the news came, hopefully we're gonna get better news here. but it really hasn't happened in the nfl. >> is the game getting more dangerous? more violent? over the weekend, at ohio state georgia game, we saw some serious hits in that game. >> yeah, they had a fellas grapple with this issue for years, safety, -- to try to pick play around the edges, but the bottom line is, it's about violence, sport and players are getting bigger and stronger, and so you're gonna keep seeing these kind of,, hopefully not an outcome like this. this is always been the nightmare scenario, where if someone's life is in the balance.

utility usually get some, sign a thumbs up as a player gets carted away. we didn't see that here which is kind of opening, the news gets good overnights. >> but it's not a nightmare, it's reality, a young man from western pennsylvania, living's dream, now in a hospital in critical condition. mark, you write about this all the time. players are getting bigger, players getting stronger, is this the coming of more dangerous and violent game. >> i mean, yes it is, the nfl will say left and right, that the game has never been safer, as the soundbite they always go to. and then once handles say this, put out press releases saying, hey look we've done this in this, we have this initiative, and yet they've moved their scheduled to 17 games. they've expanded to 17, games up from 16 just two years ago, which is up from 14 about 30 years ago. they keep basically trying to print more money. this is what this is about

nobody's supposed to go through the 16 or 17 times a year. and what other what happened tonight is related all tonight, is who knows, but there's a lot of greed at work here, has a lot of billionaire greed at work here. and i hate to soapbox around business about something like this, but the idea that player safety is paramount to everyone at the nfl, it is just not backed up by the impulses you see tonight, which was initially, it looks, like to continue the game, into the coaches sort of stepped in, player stepped in. but also the fact that they're expanding the schedules, but they're just sort of putting these bodies, that belong to people other than those off in the press box, and those up in the owners box, at great risk. so, you know, there is this moral reckoning, but i think probably we're not gonna see anytime soon, but it's there. i think something like this will hasten, hopefully, and

discussion of what happened here. >> you can always spend more money, you can create more human life. out to bring the timeline back up on the screen, can he do that? i want our audience to understand, this sean, because i want you to come out and how look longer took the call the game. 8:55 is when we saw that injury occur. i-90 seen, that's when the game was temporarily suspended, -- and it took until 10:01, for the game to be officially postponed. shawn, monday night football is the most watched football of the week, every week every year. was that delay, officially postponing this game, really about the big business of the nfl? >> because a human watching i would say, let's call this game

tonight, immediately. >> and to be fair, they may, in a half hour looks like a long time. but this is never happened before, and to mark's point, there seemed to be an inclination to continue the game, perhaps. and was the coaches and players all got together, and then communication with the lead, it became pretty obvious that, as somebody's life is perhaps in the balance, there is just no way football is going to be played. so i never got the sense of the kind of dragged too long. i know what i think, one thing that's come out of, this is the scene kind of the best of sports tonight. in an awful situation, the medical personnel responding so quickly. perhaps even as players are light, perhaps, hopefully. the players themselves, taking control of the game in st., we can't play the coach is stepping up in time lead, this

game cannot happen right now, and then you see the fans you see the bangles fans in the bills fans kind of sitting a vigil outside the hospital. it's not a little hesitant to criticize tonight, and hopefully this -- we can only hope is a happy ending here, i think we saw some of the best aspects of sports night, on all sides here. >> shawn brings out some very good points, and while those minutes fell like lifetime, danielle has never dealt like something like this before, and it is extraordinary. >> right, the nfl, to be fair,, has dealt with this before, a long time ago, but a player from the detroit lions did die on the field, in 1971, they play the rest of the game, is very different circumstance, and a very different time, and one of the great state in the league's history, it was after the president, president kennedy was assassinated, then

commissioner pete rochelle said, that the league would continue put on games the following weekend. so there is that but i agree i think humanity was certainly on display in many different ways and an hour half hour is not a long time in the scheme of things. i ultimately think they got the call right, which is to end the game into postponement indefinitely. and focused things on the conditions of the player but look these are realities that it is heartening to see humanity sort of prevail among the players and coaches and fans and so forth think it's a good thing but ultimately you can't lose sight of the fact that the business proposition the very bottom line proposition as sort of drives the league is very much in the background and these considerations are already being discussed i'm sure the highest levels, in moments like this one a decision about how to proceed is made. >> gentlemen, stay, close i

want to bring in our dear friend, a veteran journalist, msnbc contributor mike barnacle. mike, you watch what happened on the field, tonight even watching our program for the last hour, what are your thoughts on what we've seen. >> well first of, all i think the assessment, the medical assessment by dr. vin gupta, tim as, ago it was absolutely on the mark. as to probably most likely would happen, this moment of cardiac arrest. a player, life and death on the 40 yard, line with both teams gathered around, the bills in the bangles. i think the players on both teams, then saw something very perhaps and never, ever seen before in their life. they spent one of their own, players, receiving both cpr. there's been different related,

now is the center for players on both sides. and that's what you, saw the emotional reaction, -- to form a human shield, in front of the young man on the field, to her fear of his privacy being invaded, so you saw that. and then to what mark was just referencing, the decision not to flag. i expect when this string of the story is polled, you'll find that the players on both sides, both the bangles and play -- their decision was relayed to headquarters in new york. i think that was the biggest impetus for doing the common sense thing, and canceling the rest of this game. >> in this discussion, even talking about the violence of pro football, was really gay

william patriots play, or go, seemingly received a hit from an oakland raiders player, jack tatum. he spent the rest of his life in a wheelchair, he was permanently, crippled and i'll be remembered once a, year the will emotion occasion it to light stadium. it's a violent game, we live in a violent country. but the violence is for its, is ephemeral, comes and goes, violence in high school hockey games, how school football games, as violence and rugby and soccer, we've all seen it, you get a new word to it. and as leibovitz pointed out, sedan, think i, god is unbelievable. do i have anything on? this was the point spread in this game. you can't get back to the game fast enough. they will see the highest rating of any sport played on television. it's an american game, and as part of america.

and you know, it is what it is. this is a terrible night. this was a shocking night. nothing for viewers anywhere watching this game, what's shocking the see the shock in the face of the national football league players, they consider what might be happening on that field life or death in the 40 yard line. that's bigger than a football game that's bigger than a sport. it's a life in the balance it was incredible and it remains incredible. >> the nfl is saying we will not be getting any more updates tonight. michael you've written about and followed american sports for years and years but you also very much love the humanity of it. were you reminded tonight but these young men sacrifice, really as gladiators almost every time they enter that arena, and for so many of them come from humble beginnings, all that they sacrificed to

improve the condition in life. >> many of them a lot of them, maybe even a majority. they fast-track them and a fairly early age. whether in high school or college is trying to get them to submit to their college, come to, michigan come to notre dame, come to southern california, someone loved going to the pros. but when they're seniors and they play football their dream for life is to play in the national football league. they get paid big money to play in the national football league and a lot of them never make it. very few considering the many who do play football. when they get there, they've gotten to where they want to be, but the average lifespan of a

pro football player, the average career span is maybe 3 to 4 years. tom brady is an anomaly, quarterbacks are an anomaly in the national football league, there are specific rules designed to protect the football quarterback, there's no specific rules to to defend the defensive tackle, their careers are shown by injury, a lot of brain damage. the national football league it's time eyesores marketing, as leibovitz points out in his book. high marks for marketing, but look at the submission that a major region over the brain damage lawsuit. it was meager, meager, it was a pittance compared to what the national football league has in terms of wealth. so there's a lot of stories involved, this will all be regurgitated because of this tragedy that happened tonight, and hopefully it's not the ultimate tragedy, hopefully the young man does recover, and does come back.

>> mark leber which is still with us marked you want to comment on this? >> yeah, it's 100 percent correct. first of all, the average nfl career berries from year to year, usually around 2 to 3 years. this is joked that at the nfl stands for not for long, because a macro play for long. and tom brady's who's 45 years old he's been lead for 25 years, it's on that, that has said that football playing football every sunday, is like pena car crash every sunday, it's not feels. this is a guy who's still doing, it is actually pretty well protected, he doesn't get hit a lot, but he feels it, he's seen how difficult it is to recover from. oh yeah, no, i think the other part of this, is when players do, recover or many years after they recover when you see them in their 50s or 60s, they are

quite often just shells of people of comparable age, because of the tool that the game has taken on, them untold numbers of concussions, numbers of story surgeries that we don't know, about. -- the song pastor playing career, so the toll is, real and again it's not on all of us sitting and watching at home, eating nachos, it's the human being, and make their own decisions, when i did a big game i talked to a lot of them, i would always ask them at the end, after their go through, the difficulty of what their lives had become when they retire, i'd always say was it worth it. and almost to a person that say yes i do it all again. so again there are leaps of faith going on, and every step in every level of this, but it doesn't make it any easier when something so extreme, and something so here if you click this happens, for a solid watch

in realtime. >> the living their american dream, but tonight we're seen the nightmare. michael, you mentioned before, we're not reporting it, he said he bet you're bottom dollar that is these place. seize coaches said -- seeing their faces. seeing them, how hard will it be for the exam and to get back on the field, whether it's later this week. they both got games on sunday. >> i would think would be impossible. they're all human beings, and there is a brotherhood in the league a lot of players know each other from threatening us each other in college, a lot of players work out with one another during the winter, during the off-season, a lot of players because a free agency play from team to team to team. across their careers. they have intertwined on a personal level, with a lot of other personal players. but seems they were just referencing, the bangles

players, and the buffalo bills players, both on the fields, and in the locker room with a two coaches, who are conversing things like that, it hasn't been substantiated yet, but there is a report that joe burrow, finding young quarterback of this new bangles, walked across the hallway to the bills -- will find out if that's an accurate report or not that is an initial report that is indeed what happened. >> his players on the field, and to the injury, we're not playing for the bangles or the bills, they were brotherhood football players, trained for this young man. gentlemen, thank you so much, we're gonna take a quick break, we're going to bring back local buffalo reporter jay skarovsky, there is an nfl conference call

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with, nfl they've shared some of what -- conference call starting, now jeff miller, who is on the nfl communications team starts to call by saying there will be no update on tamar hamlin's medical condition tonight, nor any update on when the game will be resumed. troy vincent, who's the ebp of football operations said, coaches and players were traumatized by what they saw on the field, and suddenly their head coach for the players discussed resuming tonight's game, troye went on to say, he's never seen anything like it. the nfl said that the bills are going to return to buffalo this evening, but some of the players have chosen to stay in cincinnati, i want to stay close to the medical center, they want to stay close to del mar, as jay said earlier, the bills family obviously from

smaller city, a true brotherhood. many of those players want to be close to him. i want to share one other thing that we heard from the call, nfl executive, vp of football operations, so i just mention, troy vincent, said on the call that there is never a plan to let players have five minutes to warm up and continue the game. so where there are some rumors out there that the nfl had said, after he'd collapsed, the players could take a few minutes, warm up, and then play again. troy vincent has dismissed that will, rumor and said it was never been discussed. dr. gupta, thank you for coming back, joining us. you are with us in the last, hour i want to do a reset for our audience. america watched that 24-year-old young man after hit that appeared to be clean hit then collapsed on the fields and we all witnessed something we've never seen on an athletic field, who see subpoena and

allusion. explain to us the best of your knowledge, -- stephanie, thank you for having me back, and also watching, this is traumatic. this isn't out of hospital cardiac arrest, as we call, it the hardest dog, beating cardiac arrest. different from in the hospital cardiac arrest, for all my fellow health care providers, someone that is witnesses from a personal standpoint, it's traumatic in hospital. so this is a national trauma. and of course, our prayers and our earnest wishes over the hamlin family, to make sure there's a speedy recovery. i'll say, here for everyone wondering what happened, it appears that mr. hamlin, by all accounts is a very, healthy professional athlete, 24-year-old young man, ended up

giving a violent but otherwise pretty routine tackle, where the impact was focused on his left chest right where his heart is. you know the difference between writing your left chest based on your sternum. so we're focused on the left basically from them when the video can show us. he got, out which is a good sign, and you can back them, and apparently lost his pulse. so we had cardiac arrest, that's why cpr is implemented immediately. and the questions that still remain outstanding,. and we get to the hospital of course in a second, is when exactly, in addition to cpr, could mr. hamlin potentially receive an electrical shock, why did he need an electrical shock? it appears that what caused all this, is something called

commodio cortis. for those who actually want to google this, that's how you spell it. once you have that force focus on the left side of the chest, focused on the heart, the electrical activity in the heart gets disturbed. our electrical -- heart is basically electric acquired to beat after beat,, you don't normally think about. that might shock to the left, chest disrupted that, electrical activity. it's basically like a fuse when, off in some ways, and that's why normal electrical, activity a normal heartbeat -- effectively the heart was not doing anything meaningful, no blood was going to the brain, or the kidneys, or the lungs, much less the heart. and, so this is a life-threatening situation. the only treatment for that, stephanie, in addition to good rapid cpr, is we need to shock that patient as quickly as

possible. so that's why i'm assuming, a shock happened. we don't know how quickly it happened, and to our earlier conversation, quickness how matters. for every minute but there is a day late, after that initial arrest the chances of survival increased by about seven to 10% so immediate to fibrillation, that's what this is called, given electrical shot after the heart stops, and setting up this particular scenario. immediate defibrillation is vital, in addition to give, cpr but the shock is key. for all of us watching out there you know somebody fainting, -- you lost, suppose you want to start that immediate cpr, and you get the different later if you need it. so the message for all of us moving forward in the next 24, ours is how quickly is the shock, received and what is the status now, was interacting with the medical staff before

you had a medical ventilator, we don't know yet. he might have just been placed in a medically induced coma,. but the fact of the medical team is not updating all of us now, is not unexpected at all, the university of cincinnati critical care and part mint. truly phenomenal, level one trauma center, couldn't be in better, hands the fact that they're not updating us, doesn't really mean much, hopefully we don't have an eventful night, hopefully as, monitoring providing support of testing. >> he briefly stood up before he collapsed, is that typical with these type of cardiac events? >> it can, be what it tells, us stephanie, and especially you and i am listening to earlier conversations. violent hits in football, we think about the head, when you think about concussions. maybe some sort of catastrophic

bleed. if it was that type of consideration, here a brain injury, we would expect him to pop right back up. even if all very briefly. so the fact that he popped right back up suggested that there is something cardiac, happening not neurological. so, yes you can have that moment here, where everything seems normal, the heart might have an extra normal one or two beads, before they let you go activity actually truly becomes of normal. >> so all of those young players who've standing on that field, watch this young man get shocked. what could that be like, was the trauma associated with some like this, these are all players who put themselves out there, and put their lives at risk. >> presumably at some point loaves on the field, -- they certainly watch him get cpr,.

what i'll say is, stephanie, when medical students in the hospital, -- it is a traumatic episode. this is something, traumatic, lead to de-briefs, emotional, debris's where you say it's met mentally traumatic, so i can't imagine what it would be like for these young man on the field, who aren't in the medical profession. >> so blessed to have this medical team on the sidelines. quickly, before we go, we obviously talk all the time about football and concussions, but injuries like, this should be would be focused on the, more where they just so rare,

there were blast that they almost never happened, and now is a time when we're living this nightmare. >> stephanie, this happened on sports biggest stage, it's a national audience, so it's hard to say, how often does this really happen, i don't know if we have great data on that, so it however said this episode is if there is one and we're all hoping for a rapid recovery from mr. hamlin if there's one silver lining to question this should be a learning that football is more violent than just injuries to the head. so, yes absolutely, we should be evaluating, targeting below that. thoracic cavity, to the chest, let's go quickly, just to emphasize something we talked about earlier, got a hard at cpr dot o r g, or go to a red

cross, everybody in the country, especially those 60 and over a minimum, should be below certify, basic life support, it should be free, that's a governmental. thing and a saddle, fails and is not free, in your frustrated, just go a local fire department, i think they'll probably be upset at me for driving volunteers a local fight apartment, but they'll teach you how to save a life. as you and i talked, about this gonna happen, we need to be prepared. >> i don't think those fire departments will be annoyed, i think they'd be happy to see more people, in a community, being cpr. certified and a case have terrell merge unseat. thank you so much for joining us, dr. vin gupta, our special coverage continues, right after this break, we're gonna bring back a local buffalo bills, reporter who just got off that conference call with the nfl, and will give us a live update. e us a live update

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members, watch what happened tonight. no one ever wants to see that. looking for, him i'm hoping that he pulls through, this and he makes it through, this as we hope that he will that's what we hear tonight, just because we're bangles fans, i feel like cincinnati in the bengal's team, where family, and we care about everybody. in a family you care about

everybody in your family. >> a football family, outside the hospital. fans of both the cincinnati bangles, and buffalo, bills gathered outside the cincinnati hospital and trauma center, where 24-year-old anna felt married to my hamlin, is in critical condition, tonight after collapsing on the field during the monday night football game. three skarovsky is back with us on the phone, he covers the buffalo bills for the buffalo news, who's got a conference call with three nfl representatives, jay before break caused by trying to follow your tweets ensure bit of information. plus exactly large. -- quite clearly is the secondary to damar hamlin health and well-being. for china everyone is very

eager and hopeful, praying for him to get some good news. beyond saying he was in critical condition. i say that's only update we've received, tonight's only update that we expect to receive, -- who have chosen to stay here in cincinnati, to be close to des moines. the bills to moves that have five that's a woeful here shortly. >> it's one of the treatments and said those big, confusing he, said they never expected players to warm up and resume

play. they have any more details on what conversations were going on, before they decided to cancel. >> yes, i do, the referee in this game was in constant conversation with both. as the events were unfolding on the field, of course you can see the emotion, particularly on the bills faces but of course the bangles to. this is was a traumatizing event for anyone, especially for those on the field. i was in the press box so i was not on fields. who is speaking with after the, fact some people who are on the field. they describe the scene that can be described as horrific. and that ron oceans and the people that part of the players in the motions.

after they returned to the locker, that's when the head coaches head to discuss with the players, basically what is going to happen in the coming minutes, and how things were going to proceed. through those discussions i believe that the league, was involved in those discussions or at least listening in on those discussions with the referee. obviously it is ultimately determined by all parties that the game was not going to continue, this evening, and was ultimately suspended. >> so it's easy viewable in my seat to sit here and look at that timeline and think, this is a very long time for the nfl to decide not to continue the game. but in reality, youth of the roof where they were in constant communication, it is a complicated unprecedented situation, when you are all trying to work together to do the best thing for everyone, all those traumatized players involved, as well as be

conscious of white damar hamlin and his family are going through. >> that's exactly right. and the time the news on the field is roughly 15 minutes of being treated. with the ambulance of the stadium about 9:25 pm, that would've been 30 minutes after he originally collapsed on the field. -- all the, attention all of the focus, and thoughts are with the emergency medical personnel, the medical teams for both teams that are treating him. and that, point at the ambulance left the, field referee had to have both teams back to the locker room, that way we can speak at the head coaches, then it was made. i think in the moment, with emotions been as high as they were on the field, it was proper, and the right thing to

do to send the teams back to the locker, before anything could proceed in terms of what would happen with a game. >> devastating night, and no one was prepared for. everyone, now thinking about damar hamlin, his family, and his health, as he remains in that hospital, and critical condition. tonight, jay, thank you so much for that update. we're gonna take a quick break, and breaking news coverage continues, right after this. ight after this. flu symptoms hit harder than the common cold. so it takes the right tool for the job... to keep it together. now there's new theraflu flu relief with a max strength fever fighting formula. the right tool for long lasting flu symptom relief. hot beats flu. family is just very important. she's my sister and we depend on each other a lot. she's the rock of the family. she's the person who holds everything together. it's a battle, you know. i'm going to be there. keytruda and chemotherapy meant treating my cancer

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coverage, right now, buffalo bills safety tamara hamlin remains in critical condition after collapsing on the field tonight. espn reporter lisa salters was at the stadium, and describe the aftermath firsthand. >> the entire bill's bench, emptied, they are out on the, field and the way that the players, all the players, the bills bangles, the way that they formed a human wall around tamar hamlin, that let me know there that this was not just another injury. there were things going on behind that human wall that we should be seeing there trying to respect that young man's privacy and rightfully so so that's when i realized immediately this was not just another injury. this is something very very serious. >> his teammates, heading back

to, buffalo despite many monitor made in cincinnati with, them not to bring back and it's the, conversation for nfl player randall hill, he played for the miami dolphins, the arizona cardinals, and the new orleans stains. you are with us all last hour, talking about what these young men go through. there's another player besides tomorrow hamlin, i'm thinking of now, and it's t handguns. the bangles player who collided with them are, earlier tonight. so what must this be like for this young man. >> that's a very good question, and thanks for having me back when you are involved in a situation like that whether you are the one who was injured or the one who cause the injury. because at the end of the day

down the last break, i have a few families, and my personal family, and i have my families as a federal agent, but my nfl family is very special and when someone is injured in this particular way someone's father, it really touches everyone and part of the checker that we have, and a lot of us did plane nfl, is 90 to $50 in one track group, it say a player for this young man in his family and hopefully he can come back one day with his head held high without injury, and live his

life without any injury or drawbacks. >> the on-field reporter was just sharing thoughts, earlier saying that those players, they created a human screen, to give tomorrow some privacy, -- what is it like for players, are they ever prepared to endure this kind of trauma? >> that's another good question, because some players it's gonna be hard for them to come back, after seeing or witnessing or being a part of something like this. it's very tough mentally to come back, because football is a game of collisions,. so as you may even see a player to say, you know what, i'm sure troy vincent who i know personally, actually play with,

them also played against him. make sure that counselors are, their first on the players are gonna need counseling, football players nfl players would begin, tough and they superheroes to some people, but they still only mortal men, and they really do have feelings, and some of the many counseling. >> well, i'm so grateful that he joined us tonight, and share your thoughts, thank you randall. hill and for viewers at home, tonight who watch this whole horrific ordeal go down, many wanted to do something, something to help, and what is happening right now, well throughout the night, donations have been pouring in, to a gofundme page, but tomorrow hamlin credit for his charities annual toy drive. so, far this pages -- is raising money for a toy drive and daycare center, near where he grew up. it is most recent instagram

post, he seemed proud to show of the great work of the toy drive had accomplished site. video you're seeing, is where he signed autographs and had fun with kids. on the gofundme page, hamlin wrote this. thank you so much for supporting, me on and off the field. i'm great to have the opportunity to work, with you to help make the holiday season a little brighter, for the kids in our community. for those of you watching at home, if you like to donate, go to the gofundme.com, and search, for the chasing as foundation, community toy drive. we will treat it out, right out of the program. and on that, note i wish you all, i very safe night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, we are thinking of damar hamlin tonight, and wishing him a speedy, speedy recovery, hopefully we'll have our update for you in the morning. thanks for staying up extra late for breaking news