EA Sports activities to take away CPR celebration from ‘Madden NFL 23’ after Damar Hamlin incident

Online game developer EA Sports activities is eradicating from “Madden NFL 23” the CPR landing celebration in gentle of final week’s collapse of Buffalo Payments security Damar Hamlin.

Within the present iteration of “Madden NFL 23,” gamers can set off the CPR celebration, through which one among their gamers lies down, one does the CPR, and one mimics a defibrillator, as one of many staff celebration choices.

“EA Sports activities is taking steps to take away the celebration from Madden NFL 23 by way of an replace within the coming days,” an EA Sports activities spokesperson instructed CBS Sports activities.

Simply because the CPR celebration could quickly be phased out of digital soccer, doing it on the true subject can be now thought-about in unhealthy style.

Pittsburgh Steelers outdoors linebacker Alex Highsmith laid down after sacking Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson on the second-to-last play of the sport between the 2 groups Sunday.

Defensive finish DeMarvin Leal came visiting and did the faux chest compressions.

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Highsmith has since apologized.

“I simply need individuals to know that I’ve nothing however love for Damar and his household … I’m simply grateful for the miraculous work God has achieved with Damar’s life. I simply need individuals to know that there was nothing intentional about that. It was by no means deliberate, none of that,” Highsmith instructed the Pittsburgh Submit-Gazette.

Hamlin suffered from cardiac arrest after making a sort out on Cincinnati Bengals receiver Tee Higgins on Jan. 2 throughout a primetime Monday Evening Soccer broadcast.

He acquired a number of minutes of on-field CPR earlier than being stretchered onto an ambulance that had pushed onto the sector and brought to a Cincinnati hospital. He would later be moved to a Buffalo facility.

On Wednesday, Hamlin was discharged from the Buffalo hospital so as to proceed rehabilitation at dwelling and with the Payments, in keeping with a tweet from the staff.