The Winchester Canal, who created the sign for Damar Hamlin, meets the miracle man Buffalo.

Three months after Josh Collins created a makeshift sign calling people to pray for Damar Hamlin, he was to meet the safety of the Buffalo Bills.

COLUMBUS, Ohio. Have you ever tried to freehand draw a perfect circle? Whether it’s physics or guilt, it’s nearly impossible as hell.

Josh Collins may have done it.

“It’s so great,” he said. “It’s so great to feel like I have a purpose that’s more important than my own.”

A Cincinnati Bengals fan was there that January Monday night at Paycor Stadium when Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin collapsed.

He was a fan who, while the others enjoyed the stunned silence, pulled out a marker.

The image of Collins in the stands holding his sign was captured and shared by thousands, and viewed and rated by hundreds of thousands on social media.

“The night I made that sign, I didn’t know if that was the last time I saw Damar Hamlin,” he said.

Last week, for the first time since the incident, Hamlin held a public signing ceremony. Collins and his son weren’t about to miss it. Last Friday they left Canal Winchester for Buffalo.

“Everyone there knew me and knew the sign,” he said. “People in the lobby asked to take pictures with them. [saying] “I want to be with the guy with the sign”, “The guy with the sign”, “Here’s the guy with the sign.”

The only person who didn’t seem to have heard of the sign was Hamlin himself.

“And his eyes widened, he thanked me and shook my hand,” Collins said. “It was so unusual to shake his hand and just listen to him breathe.”

“What you’ve done in three months… you’ve completed a perfect circle,” 10TV’s Bryant Somerville said.

“Truly amazing,” Collins said. “Yeah. I mean, when Damar Hamlin asked me to take a picture with my sign and post it on my Instagram while I was standing there, I felt like crying.”

From being in the stands to standing next to him; a sign that the perfect circle closes when you least expect it.

Collins, who is also a football and baseball coach for Canal Winchester’s Central Ohio Youth Athletic Association, says he raised more than $1,100 through Bills Mafia support, and that the money went to buy AEDs for his players.

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