Damar Hamlin: Sports fans implore NFL to make changes to uniform armor

Sports fans have called for the NFL to consider changes to uniform armor after Damar Hamlin‘s on-field cardiac arrest.

The 24-year-old Buffalo Bills player is said to have ‘made progress’ with his ventilator usage reduced from 100 percent to 50 percent late on Tuesday.

Hamlin collapsed following a collision with Cincinnati Bengals receiver Tee Higgins on Monday and was rushed to hospital after receiving emergency medical treatment at the stadium.

Damar Hamlin suffered an on-field cardiac arrest after colliding with Bengal’s Tee Higgins

Football just like rugby involves brutal hits but the English sport does not include any padding

The Bills safety may have suffered a one-in-200million heart injury that shut off blood to his brain and triggered a cardiac arrest, doctors say. 

The horrifying moment has brought attention back to what NFL players wear and whether armor should be used. 

Football just like rugby involves brutal hits and powerful tackles but the English sport does not include any padding.

NFL armor typically includes a helmet, face mask, shoulder pads and body pads. 

The horrifying incident has brought attention back to whether armor should be used in the NFL

Some fans have questioned whether NFL players would change the way they tackled if they didn’t have the protection of armor.

One Twitter user commented: ‘I wonder what would happen if they removed all the pads and gave them leather helmets? 

‘The reason they go balls to the wall with hits is because they wear armor. You [don’t] see dudes launching themselves like that in rugby.

‘If you don’t have all the armor they would have to tackle differently like rugby.

‘You have to remove the armor. The hit on Hamlin was due to the running back using his hard shoulder pads as a weapon. Can’t do that in rugby.’

In the conversation, another replied: ‘Football is a beautiful sport. It’s also a bloody sport, and I don’t see it carrying on for too many years like this. Something’s gotta give. 

‘There was a push years ago to get the NCAA to make rugby-form tackles the standard, but I don’t think it went anywhere.’

Fans have called on the NFL to consider the use of armor within the game after Monday

In the wake of Hamlin’s cardiac arrest, another social media user said: ‘@NFL It’s time to revisit…