03-01-2023, 04:28 AM
(03-01-2023, 04:07 AM)dvboy Wrote: Worrying scenes from the NFL in Cincinnati where Damar Hamlin of Buffalo Bills collapsed on the field during play and was taken to hospital. Around an hour later the NFL suspended the game for tonight.
Channel 5 (taking ESPN commentary) pulled away from replays pretty quickly and then replaced their broadcast with a standby programme after some discussion.
Sky Sports taking ESPN coverage in full continuing with their coverage throughout.
The match has now been abandoned/postponed.
Watching the Channel 5 broadcast back on +1 and they stayed on air for around half an hour after the incident began, with the first few minutes of the coverage being fairly normal (talking about tactics etc.) before the seriousness set in. They also showed one or two replays of the incident from ESPN within those first few minutes but appears the broadcast stuck to wide shots or shots of coaches, officals etc. in the time up until Channel 5 went off air.
A very distressing situation to see.