Damar Hamlin: NFL game will not resume after Buffalo Bills player collapsed on the field

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Buffalo Bills fans be a candlelight supplication vigil for subordinate Damar Hamlin

The NFL crippled betwixt the Cincinnati Bengals and the Buffalo Bills volition not beryllium resumed having been suspended aft Damar Hamlin collapsed connected the field.

The Bills information suffered cardiac apprehension during Monday's crippled successful Ohio.

Although the 24-year-old remains successful hospital, doctors said connected Thursday that helium has shown "remarkable improvement".

The result of the crippled would person affected the play-off seedings truthful the NFL is considering staging the AFC Championship crippled astatine a neutral venue.

There is conscionable 1 circular of games near successful the regular season, to beryllium played this weekend, with the play-offs acceptable to commencement connected 14 January.

Not playing the Cincinnati-Buffalo crippled to its decision has nary effect connected which clubs suffice for the post-season, with some teams already assured of being among the apical seeds from the AFC Conference.

However, an NFL connection says it creates "potential competitory inequities" done the play-offs arsenic some teams volition person played a crippled less than their rivals and a team's grounds determines who has location advantage.

The squad with the champion grounds successful a Conference besides receives a bye successful the archetypal circular of the play-offs. In the AFC, the top-seeding is betwixt the Bills, the Bengals and the Kansas City Chiefs.

Millions raised for foundation aft Hamlin collapses

The NFL commissioner, Roger Goodell, and the contention committee person recommended playing the AFC Championship crippled astatine a neutral stadium if the participating teams person played an unequal fig of games.

The victor of that game, scheduled for 29 January, volition correspond the AFC successful Super Bowl 57 connected 12 February.

"Our principles person been to bounds disruption crossed the league and minimise competitory inequities," said Goodell. "I recognise that determination is nary cleanable solution."

NFL clubs volition see the proposal astatine a peculiar league gathering connected Friday, which Goodell says "addresses the astir important imaginable equitable issues created by the difficult, but necessary, determination not to play the crippled nether these bonzer circumstances".

'I'm benignant of gladsome that we chose not to play'

Hamlin has been successful an intensive attraction portion since collapsing during Monday's game, causing an outpouring of enactment from fans.

He is inactive connected a ventilator astatine the University of Cincinnati Medical Center but has been communicating with doctors and connected Thursday they said helium "appears to beryllium neurologically intact".

Hamlin collapsed aft colliding with Bengals wide receiver Tee Higgins, who said the days since the incidental person "been hard".

"Everybody's been making maine consciousness full again," helium added. "I talked to his mom. He's doing good, truthful I'm successful a bully spot close now.

"[She was] telling maine that she's reasoning of me, praying for me, that he's OK."

On seeing Hamlin illness aft the tackle, Higgins added: "I knew it was thing crazy, thing tragic. Man, it was hard. Obviously, wasn't successful a bully spot to play for the remainder of that game, truthful I'm benignant of gladsome that we chose not to play."

Goodell told each clubs connected Thursday that the crippled has been cancelled, aft speaking with the Bills, the Bengals and the NFL Players Association.

"This has been a precise hard week," helium added.

"We proceed to absorption connected the betterment of Damar Hamlin and are encouraged by the improvements successful his information arsenic good arsenic the tremendous outpouring of enactment and attraction for Damar and his household from crossed the country."

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