NFL won’t reschedule Bengals-Bills game after Damar Hamlin’s collapse, with owners set to consider modified playoff format
Under the revised system, the AFC championship game could be played at a neutral site, under certain conditions. Those circumstances involve the Bills or Bengals reaching the game as the road team.
The NFL’s deliberations over its scheduling issues began after Monday’s game in Cincinnati was stopped during the first quarter. Bills safety Damar Hamlin was injured on a hit and suffered cardiac arrest on the field. The game was postponed later that night. Hamlin’s doctors at the University of Cincinnati Medical CenterThe league decided Thursday to declare the Bills-Bengals game a cancellation. Those two teams will play 16 regular season games apiece, one fewer than other NFL teams.
NFL officials had said they would consider all scheduling options. The league previously said the Bills-Bengals game would not be resumed this week. Troy Vincent, the NFL’s executive vice president of football operations, said Wednesday that “everything is being considered.”
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