reggie brown. i remember that, you know, and that's what you've come to expect in football like a violent traumatic injury, and this one is just so shocking in that it's out of the norm, and i think like, like you, said, jason, we all deal with things on our own individual level. but this is one we experience together. this is sports is the best of us because it brings us together. and then when it gives us the worst as well, we come through this ordeal with this together. yeah you know, it's the new year. there's a lot of optimism in the air. it's the holidays. it's uh, it's monday night football. everybody's enjoying themselves . i can't even imagine what tamar hamlin's family is going through right now. but as you're watching this video tape, you can see that the players know very quickly that this is this is out of the norm . this is something dramatic. let's bring back now out kick founder clay travis, who's joining us on the line. clay additional thoughts and what's playing out here in in cin

people remember back to 1997, reggie brown also with the lions was laid out with the serious spinal cordy to breathe on the field. it was taken away. that game continued, there is an arena football league player of lucas i believe a few years ago who also collapsed and died on from injuries in the game. that came continued. tonight, maybe our sensibilities have matured a little bit. >> kevin, i just want to check with you because i mentioned chuck used ks to rachael to begin a discussion. another thing i said at the beginning is that in my memory of the nfl, they have never stopped the game, stop playing we're not gonna continue play because of an injury. do you have any recollection of them ever doing that? >> i don't, i don't, and chuck uses just a story that's in my mind, i actually don't remember, that i vaguely remember reggie brown. i'll tell you i wasn't if c championship game between the ravens and the steelers, i believe 2008 to 2009, and the game was pretty much in hand, the steelers were winning, late in the fourth quarter, and a running back for the ravens, he caught a pass o

in the final game of the '97 season, reggie brown suffered a serious spinal cord injury after a tackle, "the new york times" wrote, brown laid motionless on the field for 17 minutes, he stopped breathing, turned blue and purple. he survived but that injury ended his playing career. also wide receiver chuck hughes remains the only player to die on the field in a game, he was 28 in 1971, team doctors tried to resuscitate him but declared dead at the hospital. a short while later the cause of death was a blot clot caused by a hardened artery in his heart. violent game but many people suffered many injuries. >> now it's not clear if the nfl will postpone or cancel the bills game this weekend. there's no thursday night football tonight so players return to the field on saturday for the first time since hamlin's hit. so here's how the dallas cowboy's head coach said how the team is handling it now. >> let's be honest, nobody is fine. we all have the tendency to say we're good. that's where our mind is, focus is, after great confidence we'll get done what we needed. but most importantly stati

remember when reggie brown got hit the second year player and he wasn't breathing and he remembers peopleim going he's not breathing. darryl distinctly in the 70s paralyzed on the spot. they went back and played that game. so smart not to play this game. wasn't even considered. in retrospect, why was this so clear and back then we did what we did? >> will: you know, i don't know the answer to that, brian. and there are people that immediately want to go whether or not we can blame the nfl for how long they took to cancel this game. i mean, this is -- they're dealing with a chaotic, tragic situation with limited information in real time. and i think that -- i just can't find the room for criticism for the nfl taking what did it end up being, brian, a little over an hour before the game was called? something like that. and, you know, i saw doctors say this last night. there is no place better for this to have happened nfl trauma room than on nfl field. dozens of doctors two camps. hospital on call for every single nfl game. aidaed available immediately. no one could have been taken care of

you know, back in 1997, reggie brown, a linebacker for the lions, suffered a similar sort of fate.n't a heart attack, but couldn't breathe after a collision. he was ambulanced off of the field. the scene was much like we saw with mr. hamlin. the difference is that game went on. and i think last night just showed the maturity in our sensibleties. the game was not critically important. the most important thing was mr. hamlin. and we can play this game some other time. i think that was the thing that really stuck out the me at the end of that night. >> dr. gupta, what is your understanding with your expertise of what happened and kevin's talking about the recovery will look like? >> sure. good afternoon. so we're very much a little bit past the midway point. that first 24 hours after a cardiac arrest, once in this case, mr. hamlin has been resuscitated with a heart beat back, we really look from say 9:00 p.m. yesterday to 9:00 p.m. tonight eastern time. what does recovery look like and what's his neurologic status? are they able to start weaning him off the ventilator, maybe waking hi