A report published by ESPN directly refutes the NFL’s claim that it never seriously considered restarting the Jan. 2 game between the Buffalo Bills and Cincinnati Bengals after Bills player Damar Hamlin suffered a cardiac arrest on the field.
An extensive new report published by ESPN directly refutes the NFL’s claim that it never seriously considered restarting the Jan. 2 game between the Buffalo Bills and Cincinnati Bengals after Bills player Damar Hamlin suffered a cardiac arrest on the field.
“According to Rule 17-1-4 of the NFL rulebook, the decision to postpone a game because of extraordinary circumstances lies with commissioner Roger Goodell,” ESPN noted. ESPN added that the day after the game, Goodell issued a memo saying he made the call after speaking to the players union and officials from the two teams.“A standard practice would be to resume play, but when you get feedback that it may not be appropriate, that’s when Troy made the decision to suspend play,” Goodell said.
But all this does not seem to line up with what those at the stadium have said. Indeed, insiders told ESPN that Vincent was urging Aponte to restart the game even though neither team wanted to do so. The league, though, directly disputed the Parry claim and sent ESPN a statement reading, “at no time did [the unspecified rules analyst] say anything related to a five-minute warm-up period to John Parry … John is just plain wrong. . . . We stand by Troy Vincent’s comments and strongly refute this characterization.”
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