Good news from Damar Hamlin: The football star is recovering quickly from cardiac arrest and is already following the game of his Buffalo Bills up close digitally. Although Tom Brady loses, he can still celebrate. Likewise the Miami Dolphins.
Football pro Damar Hamlin of the Buffalo Bills watched from the hospital just a week after suffering cardiac arrest at the NFL game against the Cincinnati Bengals as his team secured second place in the AFC by beating the New England Patriots 35-23. The 24-year-old published pictures from his sick bed and could be seen "live on the sidelines" in the run-up to the game via video call. "GameDay... There's nothing I want more than to run out of this tunnel with my brothers," Hamlin wrote on Twitter.
His "brothers" provided a spectacle for their safety. Nyheim Hines became the first player since 2010 to have two kickoffs for touchdowns in the opposing end zone and was instrumental in the Patriots missing the playoffs for the second time in three years.
Meanwhile, quarterback superstar Tom Brady broke another fabulous record despite the surprising 17:30 (17:10) defeat of his Tampa Bay Buccaneers at the Atlanta Falcons: With 490 passes in one season, he surpassed his own record from 2021 at five passes. Brady's "Bucs" had already qualified for the playoffs the previous week - with a negative record of eight wins and nine losses. Tampa Bay meets the Dallas Cowboys in the first round of the playoffs.
The Miami Dolphins, meanwhile, qualified for the NFL playoffs for the first time in six years thanks to a 11-6 win over the NY Jets. The Dolphins benefited from the simultaneous loss of the Patriots and thus secured the last playoff ticket in the AFC. In addition to the Patriots, the Pittsburgh Steelers also missed the leap into the playoffs. The 28-14 win over the Cleveland Browns ended up being worthless because of the Dolphins result.
