![]() ![]() His daughters, who are 5 and 2, were crying. Hamilton tried to find a fire extinguisher, which he later discovered was still boxed up in the house he was renting. The next 30 seconds changed Hamilton’s life. He washed it and then heated the oil, but before he could add the shrimp, the pot caught on fire. He was using a new pot to make dinner the night before the Cardinals were set to head to Nashville for a joint practice and preseason game against the Tennessee Titans. HAMILTON ESTIMATED HE'S fried shrimp “hundreds of times,” but he still doesn’t understand what happened the night of Aug. A lot of people have situations where they never recover from it, and I recovered from my situation, from being in the gray or in the place of the unknown.” “I put my helmet on for one second, stepped in between those lines, and it just all came out and that was the end of it,” Hamilton said. ![]() He put on his uniform in the Cardinals’ locker room, walked out to the field for pregame warm-ups and said a prayer, asking for peace and the ability to control his emotions. The 29-year-old wanted to take last Sunday in slowly, soak it all in. But Hamilton was able to return quicker than just about anyone anticipated. The Cardinals placed him on the reserve/non-football injury, meaning he would miss at least the first four games of the season. “And, then, just like, I don't know if I'm going to be the same.” Cardinals cornerback Antonio Hamilton played his first game of the season Sunday about six weeks after badly burning his feet in a household accident. “All of that stuff just kind of hit you all at once,” Hamilton said. He couldn’t get on the floor to play with his kids. He couldn’t get himself out of bed or go to the bathroom without assistance. I didn't know what was going to happen after I got burned.”ĭoctors were unsure how long his recovery would take - they initially estimated a minimum of two to three months. “I was in a very, very, very dark place,” he said. It started in the early days after his injury, when Hamilton questioned whether he’d ever play again. Throughout the past month and a half, Hamilton has ridden an emotional roller coaster. He was set to play six weeks after a grease fire in his kitchen led to second-degree burns on his feet and had cut short an opportunity to be an opening-day starter. When Hamilton arrived at State Farm Stadium for his first game of the season, he wanted to stay composed. Adrenaline, gratitude and emotion were about to carry the Arizona Cardinals cornerback through last Sunday's game against the Philadelphia Eagles. The sheer excitement of what was going to happen the next day wouldn’t let him. Antonio Hamilton hardly slept last Saturday night. ![]()
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