ESPN Analysts Discuss the decisions behind the on-air prayer for Damar Hamlin
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It’s been more than two and a half years since then Allin’s allows Cardiac arrest during the game.
Thoughts and prayers rang out on social media, Former NFL quarterback Dan Orlovsky, who became an ESPN analyst, actually wanted to give them.
Dan Orlovsky before the Super Bowl between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles took place on February 12, 2023 in Glendale, Arizona. (Carmen Mandate/Getty Images)
So he did it on live TV the next day.
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“I heard Buffalo Bills The organization says, “We believe in prayer.” And while this may not be the right thing to do, it is on my heart and I now want to pray for Damal Hamlin. I’m going to do it loudly. I’m going to close my eyes and bow my head, and I’ll just pray for him,” Orlovsky said.
“God, we come to you in these moments we don’t understand because we believe that it will affect you when you come to God and pray to you. We are angry. We want an answer.
Buffalo Bills fans hold a sign in support of the Buffalo Bills safety Damer Hamlin before a match between the Bills and New England Patriots on January 8, 2023 in Orchard Park, New York. (Timothy T Ludwig/Getty Images)
Orlovsky admitted “Awful Announcement” podcast “It was uncomfortable,” he thought about whether to do it or not, knowing that prayers were not “for anyone.”
“Everyone keeps saying, ‘Thinking and praying, thoughts and praying, thoughts and prayer.’ And I told myself, “I thought someone should actually pray for Damar – as if they actually pray for him – not saying thoughts or prayers.” I began to feel this in my mind.
After going back and forth between himself and his colleagues, he said a TV prayer, and the “99.999999%” of the reaction was positive.
“Did I get emails here and there or text messages here and there from people who said they weren’t for their tea and not for them? Of course I did,” Orlovsky said. “But overwhelmingly, I think a lot of people are just connected, and that resonated with (them).”
The Buffalo Bills player prays for his teammate Damal Hamlin in the first half of his match against the Cincinnati Bengals in Cincinnati on January 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)
Orlovsky also said he got a “overwhelmingly positive” response from his company.
“Again, there were no negative (feedback) or pushbacks.
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Hamlin was in the hospital for about a week and was able to cooperate with the Bills’ first game in the 2024 season, and he has been the mainstay of their defense ever since.
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