Sorry, not sorry.
Shannon Sharpe was noticeably absent from Tuesday’s episode of Undisputed following his co-host Skip Bayless’ tweet that he posted shortly after Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin suffered cardiac arrest and collapsed on the field on Monday night.
Bayless was blasted by just about everyone during the game between the Bills and Bengals after he appeared more concerned with the Week 17 matchup being postponed as Hamlin was receiving CPR.
“No doubt the NFL is considering postponing the rest of this game — but how?” Bayless tweeted at the time. “This late in the season, a game of this magnitude is crucial to the regular-season outcome … which suddenly seems so irrelevant.”
Sharpe returned to Wednesday’s show to explain that he was “struck a little different” by what happened to Hamlin before flaming Bayless for his tweet.
“There has been a lot of speculation of why I wasn’t on-air yesterday, and I won’t get into speculation or conjecture and innuendo, but I will say this: In watching that game on Monday night, what happened to Damar Hamlin struck me a little different,” Sharpe said.
“As a brotherhood in the NFL, when injuries happen, and we know injuries are a part of the game … but I’ve never seen anybody have to be revived and fight for their life on the field.”
Sharpe mentioned Bayless’ tweet, remarked that he disagreed with it, and hoped Skip would take it down.
That’s when Bayless cut off his co-host saying the tweet would remain up. “I stand by what I tweeted.”
Sharpe explained, “I didn’t want yesterday to get into a situation where Damar Hamlin was the issue. We should’ve been talking about him and not getting into your tweet. That was what I wasn’t going to do, but you can’t even let me finish my open monologue.”
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Bayless said, “I was under the impression you weren’t going to bring this up because no one had a problem with that tweet,” before Sharpe replied, “Clearly the bosses wanted you to offer explanation” — which Skip said he did in a follow-up tweet to the first one that caused outrage.
“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.”
Hamlin is showing signs of progress though the player’s uncle revealed he is not yet breathing on his own and has lung damage.
He remains in critical condition in the intensive care unit at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center as of Wednesday morning.
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