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Bills WATCH: Damar Hamlin Heroes Honored at ESPYS

"Damar, first and foremost, thank you for staying alive, brother," Buffalo Bills head athletic trainer Nate Breske said at the 2023 ESPYS on Wednesday.

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Damar Hamlin took the stage at the 2023 ESPYS on Wednesday to present the Pat Tilman Award for Service to the Buffalo Bills medical staff. After a video shown to the audience featured Hamlin discussing the life-saving events of Jan. 2, he was overcome with emotions and tears as the people he called his heroes came on to accept the award.

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"Thanks to their training, their poise and their commitment to serve others, the Bills training staff kept me alive," Hamlin said in the video. "I didn't wake up that morning in January thinking that I would need someone to save my life that day, and I doubt that the training staff thought that they would have to do what they did either."

The Tillman Award "goes to a group or an individual with a strong connection to sports who has served others in a way that echoes the legacy of the former NFL player and U.S. Army Ranger," per ESPN.

Bills offensive lineman Dion Dawkins showed up to the ESPYS in support of Hamlin and had an interesting, yet hilarious wardrobe chouce.,

Bills head athletic trainer Nate Breske was handed the Tilman Award and spoke on behalf of the training staff.

"Damar, first and foremost, thank you for staying alive, brother," Breske said. "Seriously, we are so honored to be standing up here with such a strong and courageous human being."

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