Fox Sports’ Skip Bayless refuses to delete Damar Hamlin tweet in argument with Shannon Sharpe’

Fox Sports host Skip Bayless has defiantly refused to delete a tweet questioning the NFL’s decision to postpone Monday’s Bills-Bengals game following Buffalo safety Damar Hamlin’s on-field heart attack.

Bayless has been slammed by critics over the post, which he apologized for during Tuesday’s episode of Fox Sports’ ‘Undisputed’ in the mysterious absence of co-host Shannon Sharpe. 

Sharpe, a former NFL tight end, returned to the sports debate program on Wednesday, but couldn’t get through his monologue without being interrupted by the surly Bayless. 

‘Skip tweeted something, and although I disagreed with the tweet, and hopefully Skip will take it down,’ Sharpe said before Bayless interjected. 

‘Timeout,’ Bayless said Wednesday. ‘I’m not going to take it down, because I stand by what I tweeted.’

Fox Sports host Skip Bayless (right) has defiantly refused to delete a tweet questioning the NFL’s decision to postpone Monday’s Bills-Bengals game following Buffalo safety Damar Hamlin ‘s on-field heart attack. Bayless has been slammed by critics over the tweet, which he addressed during Tuesday’s episode of Fox Sports’ ‘Undisputed,’ in which co-host Shannon Sharpe (left, on Wednesday) was mysteriously absent

Bayless’ offending tweet came as Hamlin was being resuscitated on the Paycor Stadium turf on Monday night. 

‘No doubt the NFL is considering postponing the rest of this game – but how?’ Bayless asked in his tweet. ‘This late in the season, a game of this magnitude is crucial to the regular-season outcome… which suddenly seems so irrelevant.’ 

The game was ultimately postponed indefinitely and Hamlin is currently in critical condition at a Cincinnati hospital. 

‘It seems like he’s trending upwards in a positive way,’ Hamlin’s uncle told CNN. 

Bayless has faced an outpouring of criticism over the tweet, which many labeled as ‘insensitive.’

Sharpe, too, objected to the tweet, although he stopped short of blaming it for his absence from Tuesday’s show. 

‘There’s been a lot of speculation on why I wasn’t on air yesterday, and I won’t get into speculation, conjecture, innuendo, but I will say this: Watching that game on Monday night, what happened to Damar Hamlin struck me a little different,’ Sharpe said to start Wednesday’s program. 

‘As the brotherhood of the NFL, when injuries happen – and we know injuries are part of the game, I’ve seen guys suffer for ACLs and achilles tear – but I’ve never had to see anybody have to be revived and fight for their life on the field, so it struck me a little differently, because I remember seeing my brother [former Packers receiver Sterling Sharpe] paralyzed on the field, temporarily, and he was able to regain focus.

It was then that Bayless interrupted Bayless for the first time. 

‘Skip, let me finish,’ Sharpe told his long-time co-host. 

‘No, you go,’ Bayless said, appearing to relent.