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'Love You Forever!' Bills' Damar Hamlin Hospital Reveal with 'Brother' Stefon Diggs

Stefon Diggs has taken some heat for offseason behavior that many Bills watchers view as disruptive. But as always, there are many sides to most stories. And Damar Hamlin just told another powerful one.
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'Love You Forever!' Bills' Damar Hamlin Hospital Reveal with 'Brother' Stefon Diggs
'Love You Forever!' Bills' Damar Hamlin Hospital Reveal with 'Brother' Stefon Diggs

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Damar Hamlin has, quite remarkably, maintained an upbeat profile ever since Week 17 of the 2023 NFL season, when his Buffalo Bills faced the Cincinnati Bengals ... a fateful game in which the safety went for a routine tackle but ended up suffering cardiac arrest on the field, on live TV.

His story and his comeback - capped on Saturday, when the Bills beat the Indianapolis Colts in preseason game No. 1 - is well-known. 

But now there is a new revelation from the symbolically powerful Hamlin, one that wasd put on display when the team's social media posted a video of Hamlin talking to Pro Bowl wideout Stefon Diggs ... surely celebrating Damar being back in uniform.

Hamlin saw the post ... and then told the world that the first to visit him in the hospital in Cincinnati was ... Stefon Diggs.

"My brother was the first one to come see me at my lowest,'' Hamlin said of Diggs. "Love you forever 14."

Hamlin has recovered from the frightening incident and is cleared for all football activities. ... and he did "normal'' things in the preseason opener, including his involvement in the defense and then a "jersey exchange'' after the game that did turn out to be a little different ... because he needed to save this jersey for his mom.

Diggs has taken some heat for his persona on social media and for some offseason behavior that many view as disruptive. But as always, there are many sides to most stories. And Damar Hamlin just told another powerful one.

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MIKE FISHER

Mike Fisher - as a newspaper beat writer and columnist and on radio and TV, where he is an Emmy winner - has covered the NFL since 1983. He is the author of two best-selling books on the NFL.

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