charlie talking about skip bayless feels like a fever dream

For anyone curious… he’s still in a medically induced coma, they’ve lowered his oxygen from 100% to 50% and they’ve apparently flipped him to his stomach to try and give his lungs some relief. This is all according to his uncle who gave an interview outside the hospital recently. Edit: apparently he’s neurologically intact, has opened his eyes, and is gripping hands of his loved ones. Idk how much help he’s still receiving or how aware he really is but this is obviously good news. Edit 2: this morning they took the breathing tube out and he FaceTimed teammates.

As a bills fan that travelled to Cincinnati for this game, I can say that I have the utmost respect for the Bengal's fans. All of which were in support of Hamlin and understood that at the end of the day the player's health is much more important than a football game

No matter what Skips intent was with that tweet, I think the biggest takeaway from this is that twitter is awful and needs to be destroyed

My grandpa is a Bills fan and we watched it happen live last night. It was terrifying. I'm not surprised people jumped so quickly at the tweet.

The fact that he's only 24 and suffered cardiac arrest is so incredibly scary. I can't even imagine what was going through his teammates heads. Seeing the shots of some of them crying... Jeez. I hope he continues to improve.

When you're in the hospital, wondering if you're gonna live or die, you quickly realize how irrelevant people's opinions are on the internet. I'm glad his charity fund was a massive hit and I hope he makes a speedy recovery.

Man it was rough to watch. Best of luck to Damar and family. Big respect to the teams and all the fans for showing reverence in the developing situation.

I interpreted that tweet differently. When he said "a game of this magnitude is crucial to the regular-season outcome ... *which suddenly seems so irrelevant* " To me it came across as him saying that the game/season didn't seem important anymore considering a young man is fighting for his life. I understand where the backlash stems from though, don't get me wrong.

As someone who has a lot of trouble clearly expressing my thoughts, this is my worst nightmare.

I read that and first thing I thought was he was saying the game doesn't matter now, which it doesn't. U put your own emotion into reading anything and everything is a misunderstanding

Genuinely surprised at the amount of backlash he got. I really don't care for the guy but it's actually insane the amount of people that misunderstood the tweet. You can't hear someone's tone through text but I took what he wrote the way he intended and it's actually crazy the amount of people that took it the wrong way and ran with their own interpretation of what he said and based on that interpretation decided to s*** on him. Crazy world we live in.

Even from a technical point of view the game was already over. You can't have focused players after knowing that someone that was on the field could be in an actual life threatening condition, it's just illogical to continue a game after such event. Prayers for Damar and his family, let's hope he makes a full recovery after this.

I actually read it correctly the first time, but still realize how that can be easily misinterpreted. Man has to remember he's on Twitter and it's full of the most reactionary people on the planet.

I really hope he makes a full recovery. And, as bad as this might sound, I hope the guy that tackled him is okay too. Imagine the guilt he must be feeling about this...crushing. I just hope this whole situation ends in a positive way for everyone

As someone who’s not a huge football person, I can still say this incident is pretty terrifying and I hope this player recovers

I was in a loud bar right at Buffalo last night with tons of Bills fans, following the hit the bar got completely quite. People would only yelled out of frustration for the game to be postponed, the narrators at some point insinuated that the players were asked to warm up to continue the game in 10 minutes after Hamlin was taken out of the field. The whole thing was traumatic, so happy it was postponed. Hoping for Hamlin soon recovery

as someone who doesn't know anything about NFL or the tweets writer, I assumed it meant that the game outcome was extremely important but because of the event it became irrelevant. so I had no idea why it was hated so much D:

I understood what he tried to say the first time I read it. I think people just hate him already and are using this opportunity to finally get him fired 😭

People can argue all day long, especially on twitter for no reason at all, if you're normal you'll just be out here hoping that the dude gets better soon because that's the only thing that matters.

Prayers for damar man, last I heard he’s still in critical condition.

I’m a Bengals fan and was watching the game live and it was a horrible thing to watch. It was terrible seeing a 24 year old man face death like that and seeing the faces of both Bills and Bengals players visibly moved to tears was heartbreaking. This was one of my most anticipated football games of the season and in an instant none of it mattered any more. I hope Damar gets better very soon.

Just to shed some light, when he was eventually conscious and was able to communicate via writing, the very first thing he wrote was "Who won the game". Like many have said, he's getting better as time goes on, just gotta keep up the prayers

Jesus, I can’t stand the outrage over this tweet. I get Skip seems braindead a lot, but people being outraged at this just shows how much people WANT to hate Skip. Plus in a situation like this WANT to be mad at somebody. All he did, was ask how the nfl could suspend a huge game like this (which has never happened before), and acknowledged they should be considering postponing the game, while acknowledging how irrelevant the game felt. I find this to be the perfect tweet to decipher morons with zero reading comprehension, and people that aren’t missing a chromosome.

That injury, while I avoided watching any replay, was absolutely horrific. Good the game was postponed.

Skip Bayless was always like this. Remember when Gordon Hayward broke his leg in half and right after Skip went on Twitter to complain about how LeBron's road to the finals got way easier?

Had this game on in the background even though I don't really watch professional football. When this happened, it was insane and still is. The Bengals player shouldn't feel bad. He did nothing wrong. It seems like Damar just got a once in a million perfect hit that messed him up. Seeing the grown men crying on the field let's you know it's serious. I've been checking on updated every few hours. He seems like a great young man. I hope having his heart stop for so long hasn't permanently damaged his brain. Edit: looks like he's awake and doing better. I donated to his charity, I suggest everyone look into it and donate (if you can of course.) Seems like a great cause. The words of encouragement board is filled with worried fans of all kinds of different NFL teams. Great to see a community that can often be very divided come together for a good cause and well wishes for Damar.

Ngl it seems like the most milquetoast tweet possible that people just freaked out at.

It reminds me of the Denmark vs. Finland game at the 2020 (2021) Euros when Christian Eriksen had a cardiac arrest and his teammates had to do CPR and form a wall around him as paramedics did their thing. They were forced to finish the game. They lost, and it was obvious they were shook. Luckily he made a full recovery and is back playing Football. I wish the same for this young man too.

hamlins goal for the toy drive was like $2,500. i wonder how excited he’ll be when he sees what everyone has done😁

Watched this happen live, my mom was almost in tears. I hope he gets well.

I dunno. I just find it weird that I'm hearing about one of the most brutal injuries in sports history from a video based on "The Biggest Twitter Ratio in History".

as a bengals fan whos not even that religious, im praying for damar hamlin. my dad was working at the stadium that night and it was horrible. so many people came together in circles for him. theres a lot of idiots out there that want to say the stupidest shit about this situation, but its sweet knowing how so many people can come together on something like this and be so kind. i sincerely hope damar recovers quickly

Skip Bayless: Man running on 4 brain cells, not a thought going on between those eyes. His brother Rick...the bob Ross of Mexican cuisine, such a varied bloodline. Incredible

I never saw this live but even just hearing about it and seeing the aftermath of it was horrifying. I’m glad that he’s made a full recovery now.

Ok, in all honesty I could see what he was trying to say in the first tweet. I don’t think he was trying to be rude.

I saw the injury happen live, it was terrible. Especially as a Bills fan. Hope he gets better soon 😢

I actually watched Damar play in High School as my school played his (Central Catholic) in the north Pittsburgh Area. I’ve known about him since 2015 and this was insanely jarring to experience. Prayers to Damar on full recovery

Its a real question people want answers to. They'll have to play twice this coming week

My friend posted this and had a similar opinion until I pointed something out that everyone seems to have missed. He made 4 tweets about this event and I'm gonna post them all together, in the order he made them. "Not exactly sure what happened to Damar Hamlin. Players on both teams are shaken. Ambulance out on the field. CPR administered. Can't remember play being stopped for this length of time. Just said a prayer for him and his family. I've seen so many horrific injuries suffered on football fields yet never have I seen a reaction like this. In every other situation I witnessed or covered, the game always went on fairly quickly. The attitude was, "Hey, that's football." For these players, this was DIFFERENT. No doubt the NFL is considering postponing the rest of this game - but how? This late in the season, a game of this magnitude is crucial to the regular-season outcome...which suddenly seems so irrelevant. Nothing is more important than that young man's health. That was the point of my last tweet. I'm sorry if that was misunderstood but his health is all that matters. Again, everything else is irrelevant. I prayed for him & will continue to." Now everyone seems to only pay attention to the 3rd and 4th tweet but nobody even acknowledged the fact that long before he made even either of those 2 tweets he made the first and second. When I read all 4 of those tweets together, I really don't see why everyone jumped on the hate train. Maybe just because of who he is, I don't keep up much with sports and I've never heard of Skip Bayless prior to yesterday, but when I look at all 4 of those tweets in order, I really don't see the hate as warranted. Honestly even just the third tweet out of context really didn't strike me as bad. I took it as he was pondering the thought of what's more important, a game that's crucial to the season outcome, or the young man's life which he ultimately decided that the "game crucial to the season outcome seems irrelevant." Which is quite literally what he said in the tweet. Again, I'm not familiar with him as a person but I really don't see why everyone jumped on the hate train.

This is the greatest GREET, GREET, ANTAGONIZE Twitter combo of all time.

Having absolutely no knowledge of skip, I read the tweet for the first time when you put it on screen here in the video and I read it as though he were concerned for Hamlin's health. To me it reads mostly as just the musings of someone who should keep most of their thoughts private unless the context for them is thoroughly understood. In the sense that he mentioned something that almost no one else cared about in that moment because it's kind of his job to think about those things. I didn't read it as though he were disappointed that the game was now less relevant, but that he was just saying it's less relevant to most people, but it's the kind of thing his mind goes to. Some people are just wired that way, when my grandfather passed away my mother had a complete breakdown (understandably that was her dad) meanwhile I just needed to go do ANYTHING else for a couple hours. Everyone processes things differently.

Wishing Demar and his family a speedy recovery

This is a clear example of why posting things online are hard to understand because their is no tone to what we say. Re-reading his tweet, I genuinely believe people misunderstood him. But also people need to stop having second-hand rage. Too many people get angry on behalf of others way too often.

The crowd and casters were distraught. Even more so the players on BOTH teams. Tears were shed. I can’t imagine playing or even watching football after that.

It makes it even worse to realize that a lot of people were watching this game, and saw the injury, just so sad and hope he comes to good health.

It seems perfectly fine to me. A bit stupid to get outraged by your own interpretation of a written message that wasn't to you and has a perfectly reasonable alternate interpretation.

It’s insane to think of what could have happened. I can’t help but feel bad for the guy(s) who hit him. The guilt he must feel is incomparable.

Damar likely suffered a rare event called comido cordis. It can happen to anyone but typically in young athletes. After the heart discharges electrical activity it takes a short period of time to recharge. And if you get hit in the chest during a very specific time (called the relative refractory period) during the recharge, it can stop your heart completely or cause it to go into lethal arrhythmia. This is a very unfortunate event and I'm glad to see they were able to recover his pulse.

When people talk to me about sports, my brain automatically tunes it all out, and all I can hear is buzzing sounds.

I think people try to find drama when it's not there.

I definitely read it the way he intended. It really doesn't seem like the worst tweet, just got a lot of people feeling grumpy at him.

Gonna be honest.. the tweet isn't even mildly an issue to anyone who doesn't function like a typical twitter user does

I'm going to play devil's advocate and say that this tweet does genuinely read to me like someone clumsily trying to express how shaken up they are in the moment. Is it possible everyone's shaken up and on edge, and that's why this guy's rubbed them the wrong way so badly?

am i stupid? the original tweet's meaning seems so obvious to me, i don't see how it could be misunderstood by anyone. maybe it's because i don't know this guy, maybe he's said controversial things before that would make someone doubt his intentions, but from an outsider's perspective it seems 100% clear what he's trying to say: rescheduling the game sucks, but that's not important, this athlete's health is

the craziest part is that if im not mistaken, damar technically died on the field, but was resuscitated.

Conspiracy theory: There are two Skip Bayless' running the account. They each wrote one of the tweets

I don't know, I don't really watch sports, but his tweet was pretty clearly in support of whoever got hit. At least to me anyway.

Chilling with my friends last night felt like a memory that will probably be burned into my mind after that happened last night.

I didn't see a problem with what Skip said at first because I just happened to read it the way he intended. It came off as him laying out the foundation to show how big the scale was for the upcoming NFL playoff season so he could better show just how much more important Hamlin's situation was. Then I saw the massive backlash he immediately received and while I still understood what he technically meant, I could see why it was taken so negatively. I think the takeaway here was that Skip should have just not even brought up being curious about how the rest of the season was going to get handled and left it at wishing him the best. Especially since the tragedy was still fresh and emotions were extremely high.

This was not the crossover I was expecting...

Feel crazy cause I understood exactly what Skip was tryna say he has stated how difficult it would be to reschedule the game and how none of that mattered when compared to the players health seemed to me like he was tryna state how no matter how much the game is derailed it doesn’t matter when compared to the health of a player

As a Cincinnati native I can assure you Hamlin is in one of the best trauma response center in the State’s. Cincinnati is praying for Hamlin 💙❤️🖤🧡

I was watching the game with my family, and it was so scary. I hope he’s doing alright. He’s so young, he’s 24. There has been so much bad stuff happening in/to Buffalo in the past year and it’s so sad and scary. I’m so happy we have a good and respectful relationship with the bengals and their fans. They showed a lot of respect and class yesterday. Hamlin’s mother was also in the stands and rode with him in the ambulance. Praying for him, his family, and everyone in the 716.

What’s also wild is that tee Higgins is now receiving death threats because of the play and of the outcome

I didn’t even read his tweet in a bad way. The “which seems so irrelevant now” was just like yeah the game being postponed doesn’t even matter anymore. But ppl will always freak out and get their pitch forks out. 🤷🏻‍♂️

I really figured this time it was a much bigger deal than a misunderstood tweet lol

I didn’t think skips tweet was that bad he was genuinely curious about how they were gonna handle the game after this and at the end says the game doesn’t matter with what’s going on

We all know what he meant to say. It could have been worded better (or not said at all) but Twitter's always ready to feed people to the wolves and I'm sick of it

I remember in the summer when the Danish football(soccer) player Christian Eriksen also collapsed on the pitch. That was terrifying but the game was only postponed by about an hour or slightly more if I remember correctly. He's back up and playing now, so I hope that's the same for this guy now (sorry if I can't remember his name right) Damar Hamlin. Cardiac arrest on a sports field is terrifying. Fuck that, cardiac arrest as a whole is terrifying

Bro interpreted a tweet better than my English teacher trying teach a chapter

while being badly worded, i still think it’s pretty obvious that skip was talking about the health of damar taking priority over the game. i think this is a classic case of people trying to twist a tweet into something it was never meant to be and going apeshit.

His tweet was very misconstrued. He was saying that the game was such a huge game and in a matter of seconds that all became irrelevant. Typed words don’t show emotion I misconstrued it on first reading too

This was a freak accident this type of injury doesn’t usually happen in football and on someone his age. It’s more common in baseball in teens. I am guessing he got a shoulder to the left side of his chest at the right moment and his heart stopped.

Charlie relating his knowledge to a serious sports injury: “Things are trending in the right direction”

This is the greatest ratio of all time

I can’t wait for when Hamlin wakes up and he sees all the positivity and all the good change he’s going to be able to do with all the those donations

This is so uncalled for

Aside from any awful takes on the situation, let’s all hope Damar pulls through this horrible situation and makes a full recovery.

And the charities goal was $2,500. Loved seeing that level of support and compassion to not only surpass the goal, but completely nuke it out of existence.

It clearly came across to me immediately that he was saying a person's life is more important that the game. It may not have been perfectly stated, but I had no doubt what he was saying.

The tweet isn’t even bad slightly he’s literally saying all the details of the game don’t matter anymore

Poor guy is only 24 and had a heart attack, despite being the picture of health. How can you ever prepare for something so unexpected. Hoping for his full recovery.

Between this and Ken Block passing away, yesterday was a heavy day for sports

3:41 "well that little zinger had more interpretations than a Rorschach painting" daaaang yet another great analogy from Charlie

Why anyone communicates via twitter at all confuses me. All people do is whine about what other people whine about.

Nope. He was just saying after what happen the game seems irrelevant. I hate Skip I'm a Packers fan 😂 but I understood that tweet lol

I don't understand how people misread his tweet, it seemed pretty obvious to me that he was saying the game became irrelevant because of the injury, it's not his fault people misinterpreted his words and jumped to conclusions about his meaning so why should he have to apologize?

I was watching at home with my mom. It was so scary. I hope Hamlin recovers.

Reading comprehension is a lost art.

God bless his soul. I don't follow sports at all, but every time I hear about these injuries or rare heart conditions that don't get brought up until after the fact, freaks me out. I really hope the man makes a recovery, it sounds like the response was speedy. That's never easy for a cardiac arrest, that's for sure.

I think Twitter took Bayless's tweet in the most uncharitable way possible, I didn't read it the way so many people seemed to have. But Charlie, my brother in christ, you never showed us the ratio. I had to know if the ratio was bigger than Tate and Thunbergs. Now I'll never know.

Skip just echoed what everyone else with a 6am alarm clock the next morning was thinking.

This is why with text, it's increadibly hard to convey meaning. The way I took it from this quick video was "Football and League is irrelevant/made to be small in comparison to this man's health" which should speak volumes as it's this reporter/commentator whose entire career has been covering this stuff. People be so quick to assign their own feelings to text and assume the worst.

I dont think the tweet was bad its just people interpreting it in the worst, most uncharitable way possible

I watched him collapse live and i'm still shaken over it. I'm glad they're gonna void the game, no way in hell either one of those teams could play a football game after watching a man receive CPR, get shocked back to life, and receive oxygen. Definitely keeping Hamlin in my thoughts get better soon big dog.

Charlie dipping into sports feels like a twilight zone.. he’s finally talking about stuff I watch lol

In the UK when players have collapsed on the pitch they finish the match.

EVERYBODY STAY CALM

Considering skip’s comments on the past about other players mental health it’s not shocking to see why everyone automatically thinks anything he says is negative, but the dudes whole persona is just a modern sports clickbait shock jock wether he honestly believes in what he’s saying or not but considering his recent insults of Shannon Sharpe and many other seemingly brain dead comments he’s made, he could probably say water is wet and get blasted for it.