The preseason party of the National Football League (NFL), the National Football League, among the Detroit Lions and the Atlanta Falcons ended early on Friday after what seemed to be a serious injury to safety of the Lions Morice Norris. The player was transferred to the hospital after receiving treatment for about 20 minutes in the Atlanta field after a collision with the Falcons Nathan Carter corridor in the last quarter of the game.
When the game resumed with 17-10 in favor of the Lions and just under 15 minutes on the clock in the last quarter, the players of both teams let time run. Shortly after, they gathered in a circle and seemed to pray in a group. In the absence of 6:31 minutes, the game was officially suspended. Subsequently, the Lions said Norris was “stable” and that had “sensitivity and movement in all its limbs.” “The night will spend observation at the Graduate Memorial Hospital de Atlanta,” they said.
😱 This was the time when Morice Norris received a hard blow in the preseason game between the Falcons and the Lions.
🙏🏻The player is being observed by doctors and is stable.pic.twitter.com/3hKIeD1kMg
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Lions coach Dan Campbell, he said at a later press conference that Norris «breathes, speaks… has some movement and now they are doing more tests». A visibly excited Campbell said the two parties “agreed that it was simply not okay to finish the game,” praising the coach of the Atlanta Falcons, Raheem Morris. “That man has a lot of class, he always had it,” he said. The NFL season begins in September.
