PHILADELPHIA — Bo Kimble was about to tune in Monday night to the Bengals-Bills game when he received a phone call from Albert Gersten, a booster from Kimble’s basketball days at Loyola Marymount.
“He was in tears,” Kimble said Tuesday.
Gersten wanted to know if Kimble was watching Monday Night Football as a Bills defensive back — 24-year-old Damar Hamlin — had gone into cardiac arrest, eerily similar to the way Kimble’s friend and teammate Hank Gathers did in 1990 when he died on the court. Kimble told Gersten he was five minutes away from starting the game on his DVR.
