Not just a celebration.
Ball games are usually accompanied by a lot of physical confrontation. The game is extremely tense and exciting, and the moment of winning is even more exciting. Many athletes will celebrate unrestrainedly, leaving behind many classic celebration actions.
In American football, “cardiopulmonary resuscitation” is an action often used by players to celebrate victory-that is, a player lies on the field and pretends to need help, and other players perform chest compressions for him, and he is taken from the ground. Pull up on the ground.
This action is also used in the American football game “Madden NFL 23” developed by EA Sports. When the player scores a touchdown, the NPC will join the celebration and use CPR on the player.
However, recently, an accident that no one expected, led EA Sports to decide to remove this action from “Madden NFL 23”.
On January 3, during a game between Buffalo and the Bengals, a 24-year-old young player, Damar Hamlin, collided violently with his opponent and fell to the court, suffering cardiac arrest.
According to reports, paramedics at the scene performed CPR on Hamlin for 9 minutes, his heart began to beat slightly, and he was immediately carried into an ambulance and taken to a local hospital. After three days and three nights of rescue, Hamlin was finally out of danger, but is still in hospital for treatment.
This incident caused a huge reaction in the United States. Many people felt sad for what happened to this young teenager. Netizens began to spontaneously pray for Hamlin. On Twitter, the issues of team management and player health were also brought up repeatedly.
However, just as the matter was still hot, in the game on January 9, Pittsburgh Steelers player Alex Highsmith used this celebration again after winning.
Highsmith’s actions were quickly criticized by a large number of netizens. Although many fans explained to netizens that this is a celebration often used in American football and that he himself may not have malicious intentions, people still think that this action is inappropriate.
A day later, Highsmith issued a public apology. According to him, he was very tired after the game and did not carefully consider the possible consequences of this action, but he definitely did not intend to link this action with Hamlin’s situation. Prayers were done for Hamlin.
In view of the huge repercussions of this series of unexpected situations, which have aroused the attention of many parties, and considering that fans may not be able to actively face this action in the future, EA Sports decided to move the celebration of cardiopulmonary resuscitation from the game in the recent version update. remove.
Perhaps because of this accident, this iconic rugby victory move will completely disappear from rugby games and games.
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