LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) — Alan Cutler has been working in sports activities for a while. He was beforehand the host of the Cincinnati Bengals Radio Community, the previous sports activities director of LEX 18, and is now a sports activities radio host. Final evening, he settled in to look at the Bengals play the Buffalo Payments.
Says Cutler: “I used to be wanting ahead to final evening’s sport as a result of Buffalo and the Bengals was legitimately being touted as one of the best Monday evening sport of the yr — and it ought to have been outdoors of the apparent tragic state of affairs .”
On his present at present, Cutler summed up what he and 1000’s of followers skilled throughout final evening’s sport. He admits that at the beginning, he thought Damar Hamlin’s crash was a concussion.
On the present, he says: “I turned my head and unexpectedly I hear one thing like… ‘um, and it went down.’ And I did what everybody else did. I am watching TV and I shortly go “oh my gosh”.
As his concern for Hamlin grew, this second felt all too acquainted. He introduced Cutler again in 1999.
“The second I freaked out, I began enthusiastic about John Stewart and — it is not about me — however it was by far the worst day in tv I’ve ever had.”
John Stewart, 18, who signed to play basketball on the College of Kentucky, collapsed throughout a highschool basketball sport and died. Whereas Hamlin stays hospitalized in essential situation, Cutler says the assist from each the younger males’s households and the group has reminded him of the evening Stewart died.
Cutler explains, “That may have been a extremely good feeling, an important feel-good story, after which this occurred. And so, final evening, the second I thought of John Stewart—I simply received chills—I began shaking a bit of. , not uncontrollably, however I began shaking as a result of it introduced again the reminiscence of that evening.”
Cutler admits he did not know a lot about Hamlin earlier than final evening — about his philanthropy or his values — however noticed how devoted he was to his household, simply as Stewart was. He says humanity dominated the sports activities world final evening.
He says, “Mankind prevailed over enterprise final evening. And it ought to at all times be that approach and to say that it at all times was could be a complete lie. And so, I discovered it truly sort of comforting as you concentrate on this younger man — however in case you ask me for a theme, it was household.”