Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin never asked for life to play out the way it did at just 25 years old. Growing up in the Pittsburgh metropolitan borough of McKees Rocks, Pa., Hamlin faced life head on through every difficult situation handed to him.
Despite the challenges he’s faced, Hamlin has always stood by his hometown, and to this day he has an affinity for so much of Pittsburgh and its sports teams. Hamlin wanted to become the greatest ever, a game changer. But life granted him that opportunity in the most traumatic way.
And it all began in childhood.