Buffalo Bills football safety Damar Hamlin presented the Pat Tillman Award for Service to the Buffalo Bills training staff who saved his life in Cincinnati.

Hamlin’s terrifying collapse during a Monday Night Football game in early January shook the sports world, but the safety is still with us owing to the efforts of the Buffalo Bills training team. Hamlin attended the 2023 ESPYs on Wednesday, which celebrated the top athletes from the previous year in sports.

Hamlin gave the Bills training staff the Pat Tillman Award for Service during the event, breaking down in tears as he did so.

The occasion also made Hamlin fans emotional as they shared their feelings on Twitter. One person wrote, “Everyone watching the ESPYs has had a good cry now watching the Buffalo Bills training staff receive the Pat Tillman Award for Service from Damar Hamlin.” Another fan wrote, “What a great package about Damar Hamlin and the Bills training staff. The fact that the dude is going to play this year is truly a Miracle.”

Before handing them the Pat Tillman Award for Service, Hamlin told his story in a video, saying, “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 staff thought that they had to do what they did either.”

“What I’ve taken away from what happened to me six and a half months ago, is that any of us at any given time are capable of doing something that’s incredible, in saving a life and living a life in service to others,” he continued.

Nate Breske, the Buffalo Bills’ head athletic trainer, accepted the award on behalf of the rest of the staff saying, “I’m humbled and honored to be speaking tonight, representing the Buffalo Bills athletic training staff… By the grace of God and divine intervention, we had the best outcome we could have prayed for.”