The Buffalo Bills will return to Cincinnati this week to take on the Bengals on Sunday night this week, returning to the site of the horrifying incident that nearly cost Bills safety Damar Hamlin his life. And as the team prepares for Sunday’s game, Bills quarterback Josh Allen is opening up about just how much that situation impacted that team last year.
During a recent appearance on the Let’s Go! podcast with Tom Brady, Josh Allen opened up about just how much the situation has meant to the team both last year and this year as well as the impact Damar Hamlin has had on the world as a result.
“The weeks after that and getting the positive updates on Damar, obviously, that helped our team and our mentality a lot,” Allen said. “It’s a lot for a team to go through, though. I think that it weighed on us quite heavily throughout the rest of the season and, you know, it was constantly on our minds.
“But for him to come back and obviously make the squad and be an inspiration, not just to us, but so many people in the world, he’s done so much good. Not in this area alone, like in the entire country in terms of bringing awareness to CPR and raising money and donating the defibrillators, the AEDs to high schools and little league teams around the country. And I think that that’s so freaking cool that he’s been able to turn such a tragic moment in his life into such a positive movement that could very well end up saving people’s lives. And I think that’s very powerful in itself.”
It was certainly a horrible situation, but it’s clear that so much good has come of it.
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