{"id":411950,"date":"2023-02-09T04:41:30","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T09:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=411950"},"modified":"2023-02-09T04:41:30","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T09:41:30","slug":"hamlin-in-surprise-appearance-at-super-bowl-week-for-award","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/hamlin-in-surprise-appearance-at-super-bowl-week-for-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamlin in surprise appearance at Super Bowl week for award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"qa-introduction gel-pica-bold\" role=\"introduction\" data-reactid=\".1hjfb1ks1jk.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-1\"><span data-reactid=\".1hjfb1ks1jk.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-1.0\">Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin, who collapsed from cardiac arrest during a game last month, has made an unexpected appearance during Super Bowl week.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Bills safety Damar Hamlin, who all those conspiracy theorists were totally wrong about like always, accepted the NFLPA Alan Page Community Award today in Phoenix.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It\u2019s a blessing to be a blessing,&quot; he said.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0aZrgX7fkv\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/0aZrgX7fkv<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zJ2rfIZsNW\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/zJ2rfIZsNW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Nick Veronica (@NickVeronica) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NickVeronica\/status\/1623476922222104577?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 9, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div data-reactid=\".1hjfb1ks1jk.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-2\">\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1hjfb1ks1jk.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-2.0\"><span data-reactid=\".1hjfb1ks1jk.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-2.0.0\">He showed up during the round of news conferences building up to Super Bowl 57 in Phoenix, Arizona, which will take place on Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1hjfb1ks1jk.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-2.1\">\n<div id=\"bbccom_mpu_1_2_3\" class=\"bbccom_slot bbccom_standard_slot mpu_first_slot\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-reactid=\".1hjfb1ks1jk.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-2.1.$body-0\">\n<div class=\"bbccom_advert\" data-reactid=\".1hjfb1ks1jk.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-2.1.$body-0.0\">The 24-year-old Hamlin was one of five finalists for the NFL Players Association&#8217;s (NFLPA) Alan Page Community Award. And he stunned journalists when he took to the stage to accept the accolade.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Amazing: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bills?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Bills<\/a> Safety Damar Hamlin has won the NFLPA\u2019s Alan Page Community Service Award. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#39;s him accepting the award.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude4f\ud83d\udc4f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WIS8uNAlDt\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/WIS8uNAlDt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dov Kleiman (@NFL_DovKleiman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NFL_DovKleiman\/status\/1623416096295460872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 8, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1hjfb1ks1jk.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-5\"><span data-reactid=\".1hjfb1ks1jk.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-5.0\">Hamlin&#8217;s arrival was greeted by loud applause and he addressed reporters briefly &#8211; without taking questions &#8211; before accepting the trophy and a $100,000 (\u00a383,000) donation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1hjfb1ks1jk.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-6\"><span data-reactid=\".1hjfb1ks1jk.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-6.0\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a blessing to be a blessing,&#8221; said Hamlin at the event in Phoenix.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1hjfb1ks1jk.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-7\"><span data-reactid=\".1hjfb1ks1jk.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-7.0\">The player launched a foundation called Chasing M&#8217;s in 2020<\/span><span data-reactid=\".1hjfb1ks1jk.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-7.3\">\u00a0to provide toys for children in need in his hometown of McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1hjfb1ks1jk.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-8\"><span data-reactid=\".1hjfb1ks1jk.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-8.0\">The toy drive has now received nearly $9m of donations since Hamlin&#8217;s collapse in Cincinnati, Ohio, far surpassing its initial fundraising target of $25,000.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin, who collapsed from cardiac arrest during a game last month, has made an unexpected appearance during Super Bowl [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":411951,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17370,17369],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"The Bills safety stunned journalists when he took on stage to accept the Alan Page Community Award ","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/411950"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/411950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411950"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=411950"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=411950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}