As the nation grapples with Bills safety Damar Hamlin’s devastating injury and episode of cardiac arrest during Buffalo’s Monday Night Football game against the Bengals, President Joe Biden weighed in on the situation.
Biden was asked Wednesday afternoon whether he believed the NFL had become too dangerous.
“I don’t know how you avoid [dangerous hits],” Biden told reporters. “I think working like hell on the helmets and the concussion protocols, that all makes a lot of sense. But … it is dangerous. You’ve got to just acknowledge it.”
Biden also told journalists he spoke with Hamlin’s parents by phone “at length,” as Hamlin remains in critical condition at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center.