Battle Red Blog Power Rankings: Week 18

The first hours of the new year in the NFL landscape were marred by great elation, spectacular despair, clinching victories and sealing defeats, and, suddenly, great crisis to spectators and individuals alike. In the inaugural weekend of the new year, professional football shattered the inner conscious of all with a display of what horror and violence must be undertaken for this dream of arena competition to survive: Damar Hamlin’s injury, resuscitation, and hospitalization at the beginning of Monday Night Football. Hamlin’s injury was severe, shocking, and so terrifying that it warranted indefinite postponement of an NFL game, something that’s been far off the minds of most waiting for updates on Hamlin’s health.

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