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The Damar Hamlin ‘Perspective’ Didn’t Last Long

 

So how was your “Damar Hamlin This Puts Everything Into Perspective Week”? Mine, unsurprisingly, was loaded with contradictions with the exception of those “Love For Damar” T-shirts handed out so NFL sideline personnel could attest to their fealty, in assorted sizes,

Mine, unsurprisingly, was loaded with contradictions with the exception of those “Love For Damar” T-shirts handed out so NFL sideline personnel could attest to their fealty, in assorted sizes, in front of TV cameras.

But what most counted didn’t appear on my TV screen.

Saturday’s early-afternoon Michigan-Michigan St. men’s basketball telecast on Fox was loaded with MSU supporters chanting ridicule, insults and taunts at the visiting Wolverines. Must’ve missed that “Perspective” memo.

Next was Chiefs-Raiders on ABC/ESPN where early in the first quarter after sacking Raider QB Jarrett Stidham, DT Chris Jones performed a ridiculous all-about-me dance that left him about 30 yards from the play. But why would Jones, a seven-year pro, know any better now than before Hamlin’s heart- and game-stopper?

 

On ABC/ESPN, guess what the pandering trio of Steve Levy, gasbag Dan Orlovsky and no-one-home Louis Riddick said about Jones’ self-aggrandizement minutes into the first game after Hamlin was saved.

Nothing

Sunday it grew worse. After Steelers’ LB Alex Highsmith sacked Browns’ QB Deshaun Watson, Highsmith was on his back when teammate Demarvin Leal bent to perform mock CPR on Highsmith, as if Highsmith were in coronary arrest.

What was going on in Leal’s Texas A&M-educated, socialized, full-scholarship head?

With eight minutes left in a tight playoff-elimination game against the Lions, Packers’ LB Quay Walker was ejected, for a second time this season, this one for shoving from behind a medical attendant who’d rushed onto the field to treat a Lion in sudden distress.

The player who was down, RB D’Andre Swift, had just taken a vicious, illegal, forearm to the head from DT Jarran Reed, who also risked ejection from the game yet wasn’t flagged.

So now, along with Hamlin, our “thoughts and prayers go out” to Swift, and because “this puts everything into perspective,” the NFL and NFLPA will send him a couple of “Love For Damar” T-shirts.

Phil Mushnick:

nypost.com

 

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