MIAMI — Just checked the statutes to make sure nothing had been codified in the past couple of weeks and could find nothing at all. So let’s make it official, and legal:
You are not required by law to root for the Buffalo Bills in these NFL playoffs solely because one of their players suffered a serious recent medical scare on the field.
We tread carefully here through the gravity of this. Bills safety Damar Hamlin could have died from that cardiac arrest and prayers surely were answered that he did not. By all reports he is making a full and rather miraculous recovery that should have all football fans cheering. A grateful nation has seen his near-tragedy flip to a feel-good story.
