Listen to incredible Bills radio call of Nyheim Hines 96-yard kickoff return for TD (Video)

Nyheim Hines returned the opening kick in Week 18 for a touchdown, and the Bills radio call was absolutely incredible. 

Everyone knew Sunday’s game at Orchard Park was going to be emotional. It was the first game Buffalo was playing since Damar Hamlin went into cardiac arrest during Monday Night Football and nearly died on the field.

It was truly the most terrifying and traumatic thing ever witnessed on an NFL field and put into perspective how football is a game until it isn’t. Remarkably, Hamlin took less than a few days to wake up and begin breathing on his own and appears to be in the clear and on the road to recovery.

Hamlin is going to be okay, which was the only thing anyone was worried about.

With Hamlin’s health is in a good place, the Bills proceeded with Sunday’s game against the Patriots and kicked it off in a way that couldn’t have been scripted if you tried.

The first time the Bills touched the football since Hamlin’s heart incident was a 96-yard touchdown return by Nyheim Hines.

Everything about the moment was special, but the Bills radio call summed up the energy, excitement and catharsis felt by the return.

Listen to Bills radio call of Nyheim Hines 96-yard kickoff return

It’s nearly impossible to do this radio call justice with words, it just needs to be experienced:

As if that wasn’t incredibly cathartic already, the kickoff return has even more emotional context to unpack.

That radio call features the voice of Chris Brown, who is not the Bills normal play-by-play announcer. John Murphy is usually on the mic calling Bills games, something he has done on such a legendary level that he was named to the Buffalo Broadcasters Association’s Hall of Fame.

Brown is on the call because Murphy suffered a stroke prior to last Monday’s game. His family released a statement through the Bills letting fans know that Murphy is recovering but wouldn’t be able to step back into the booth just yet.

It’s unfathomable how much Buffalo has been through this year. The Bills are stitched into the fabric of the community, one that had to endure a racist mass killing at a supermarket, historically deadly snowstorms, and tragedy within the team everyone turns to for escape.

Hines’ kickoff return was more than just a touchdown, it was a catharsis that almost no other community tied to an NFL team can comparably relate.