Atlanta (AP) – Detroit Safety Morice Norris was attended for about 20 minutes and made the field in an ambulance during the Lions in the Lions on Friday evening against Atlanta, ending the match at 6:31 after the players let the clock run.
Norris was wounded with 14:50 to try to tackle Atlanta that Nathan Carter walked back.
“We just pray for Mo and ask that everyone is praying for him,” said Lions coach Dan Campbell, who said he had “positive information” from the hospital.
“He breathes. He talks. He has some movement,” Campbell added.
Norris, mentioned as the safety of Detroit, sustained the injury when he tried to tackle Carter, a Rookie in Atlanta.
Norris struck Carter with his face mask opposite the belly of the running and his head broke back after making the hit.
Lions Quarterback Kyle Allen said that it was immediately clear that the medical staff saw this as a serious injury.
“Usually you see a few trainers there,” said Allen. “It is never good if they bring out the stretchers. We started to pray and hope for the best just before him.
“If it takes so long, with so many people and so many trainers around him, you just hope for the best.”
All added: “It’s just terrible. … You sign up for football and you understand the risk, you understand the risk risk. You never think such a thing will happen.
“At the end of the day we are all here as football players. We may be in 32 different teams, but we have all played our entire lives and have had our own injuries and went through it.”
When the game resumed, Falcons Quarterback Emory Jones took a snap and then held the ball while players of both teams were on the line of scrimmage and the clock continued to run. In the end, with 6:31, an official announced that the match “per New York” was suspended.
The lions led 17-10 when played played.
Campbell and Falcons coach Raheem Morris made the decision not to end the match.
“Raheem Morris is a class law,” said Campbell. “He is the Ultimate Class Act. We agree that it just didn’t feel good to finish that game.”
All said that the decision not to finish the game was easy to make.
“I don’t think anyone wanted to play that sidelines,” said Allen. “We were not part of that decision, but you could look into someone’s eyes and see that.”
