Current Events > Damar Hamlin attendance at Bills game fuels body double conspiracy theories

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https://www.tmz.com/2023/01/23/damar-hamlin-internet-conspiracy-theory-buffalo-bills-body-double/

Damar Hamlin's presence at the Bills' playoff game has fueled wild conspiracies on the Internet among the tin foil hat-wearing crowd ... with some suggesting a body double was used in the 24-year-old safety's place. But, multiple sources tell TMZ Sports that's simply not true ... sorry, conspiracy theorists. Hamlin attended the Bills-Bengals game Sunday afternoon at Highmark Stadium ... his first time back at an NFL game since he went into cardiac arrest on the field in Cincinnati on January 2. Damar, wearing a mask, hoodie, and sunglasses, was shown on television and the stadium scoreboard ... but between the accessories and bad weather in Buffalo, it was difficult to see Hamlin. FYI, it was 30 degrees in western New York on Sunday. Given Hamlin didn't speak with the media, and his face wasn't seen clearly, some people went to Twitter and online forums, suggesting a stand-in was used in DH's place. The speculation has even gotten to the point where people were dissecting other pictures of Damar ... including the one teammate Matt Milano posted last weekend, which was believed to be Hamlin's first return to the Bills facility. In the interest of debunking Internet conspiracy theories, we made some calls ... and multiple people close to Damar say it's absolute nonsense. Bottom line -- Damar Hamlin was at the Bills game.

These are a couple of those type of tweets that TMZ is debunking
https://twitter.com/realstewpeters/status/1617578167937417217
https://twitter.com/NathanLC78/status/1617894521148411906
https://twitter.com/BobsLessons/status/1617537493427191808
https://twitter.com/AndrewRoseSC/status/1617343775071928320
https://twitter.com/EmeraldRobinson/status/1617886282843303950

But he was shown multiple times at the Bills facility during the week.

Were_Wyrm posted...

But he was shown multiple times at the Bills facility during the week.

"That was old footage man! OPEN YOUR EYES!"

Yes, that was sarcasm.

The aggressive stupidity of people is so annoying.

CableZL posted...

The aggressive stupidity of people is so annoying.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/9/2/AAc53qAAEHbQ.jpg

And these people vote.

M_Live posted...

The new narrative is that the covid vaccine straight up kills people? What about all the people it didn't kill though lol

NEW narrative? That's been around for these dumb fucks for awhile now.

gunplagirl posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/9/2/AAc53qAAEHbQ.jpg

That's amazing.

not everything is a conspiracy

Heineken14 posted...

That's amazing.

The I and second N are interchangeable but dammit CE alone has posted at least a hundred that I've seen.

i'm a huge fan of this conspiracy tbh

not him being dead of course. just the thought that he wasnt actually at the game

Damar Hamlin could go to these people's houses with his birth certificate and photo ID and any other form of identification and they'll still say it's a govt hoax coverup.

Damn dude, this is a straight up El Cid situation.

As an aside, though, it could be that he has nerve damage to his face that he doesn't want to show on camera while they try to rehab it. Also, the idea that his little kid is up in the room with some stranger who everyone is treating like his dad makes me giggle a bit.

Damar Hamlin body-double seems like a dumb conspiracy to even bother with, much less making a conspiracy theory about it.

Questionmarktarius posted...

Damar Hamlin body-double seems like a dumb conspiracy to even bother with, much less making a conspiracy theory about it.

It's an offshoot of the "Vax kills" conspiracy. They already pronounced the Vax caused this, so his survival hurts their cause. But if he was really dead...

Questionmarktarius posted...

Damar Hamlin body-double seems like a dumb conspiracy to even bother with, much less making a conspiracy theory about it.

Have there been any conspiracies that AREN'T completely fucking dumb and immediately torn apart if you spent more than 3 seconds thinking about them?

btw the tweet TC is linking is some Republican QAnon "DiedSuddenly" anti-vaxx stuff, becareful with the stuff he links

Heineken14 posted...

Have there been any conspiracies that AREN'T completely fucking dumb and immediately torn apart if you spent more than 3 seconds thinking about them?

There's a bit of difference between "second shooter on the grassy knoll" and "fake Demar Hamlin because vaccine coverup".

Questionmarktarius posted...

There's a bit of difference between "second shooter on the grassy knoll" and "fake Demar Hamlin because vaccine coverup".

Not a whole lot.

pick4six posted...

btw the tweet TC is linking is some Republican QAnon "DiedSuddenly" anti-vaxx stuff, becareful with the stuff he links

Would it have been better to not reference or link to what the article in OP was about? I will remove that tweet then I didnt have to do that extra work and search Twitter. I thought context was needed but will remove some of the context and you can just go off what TMZ said.

I told you guys weeks ago, minutes after he went down, that he was gonna make it and again.

what people don't realize is the game didn't even actually happen

deepfake game that never existed. omg the world is so ca-razy.

GuerrillaSoldier posted...

what people don't realize is the game didn't even actually happen

deepfake game that never existed. omg the world is so ca-razy.

viral marketing for new Madden game, the graphics are so impressive that people don't even realize they're watching a video game

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That's been the narrative since the beginning.

Because it's super logical for the government to just kill off all of the people who actually listen to them

The football itself is actually covered in the vaccine and anyone who touches it will be infected. That's why the smart players wear gloves.

Heineken14 posted...

Have there been any conspiracies that AREN'T completely fucking dumb and immediately torn apart if you spent more than 3 seconds thinking about them?

There were a few that turned out to be true regarding the cia. Conspiracys all look stupid as fuck these days. But there were a time when we used that term because there were legit instances like operation north woods and mk ultra.

Now its Lizard people and illumaniti demons who eat children on mars.

__aCEr__ posted...

The football itself is actually covered in the vaccine and anyone who touches it will be infected. That's why the smart players wear gloves.

So Aaron Rodgers betrayed the anitvax crowd? Or is he one of those that was too stupid to not realize that?

littlebro07 posted...

That's been the narrative since the beginning.

Because it's super logical for the government to just kill off all of the people who actually listen to them

and even if the vaccine did kill people(is there even a confirmed case?), its death rate is about a million times lower than COVIDs death rate

thronedfire2 posted...

and even if the vaccine did kill people(is there even a confirmed case?), its death rate is about a million times lower than COVIDs death rate

The people who spent the last few years saying covid deaths have been inflated because they're counting anyone who died that happened to have covid (and they ignore that if those people *didn't* catch covid then their underlying conditions might not have been pushed to the point of killing them) are the same people who now claim everything bad that happens to people is because they got vaccinated lol

Josh Allen has responded
https://twitter.com/KBBasement/status/1617986023690244101

Barber102 posted...

Now its Lizard people and illumaniti demons who eat children on mars.

I mean, to be fair stupid conspiracies have always existed. The conspiracies regarding the Illuminati were already in full force by the time of the French Revolution. There's essentially been several centruies of Jewish conspiracy at some level which under-pinned centuries of anti-semitism. The Lost City of Atlantis. I could go on.