Last
week, play got nasty between the Carolina Panthers and New York Giants. Words led to cheap shots led to a one-game
suspension for Giants’ receiver Odell Beckham Jr., who said in his defense that
a Panthers’ player threatened him with a baseball bat. Apparently, the Panthers’ secondary had been
using a bat as some kind of motivational tool.
(I’m trying to imagine shoulder pads working that way in the dugout, but
can’t.) On the Tuesday after the game, Carolina coach
Ron Rivera said there’d be no more bat antics on the sideline. “It’s the ‘No Fun League’ for a reason,”
harrumphed Rivera to reporters in partial explanation of his
decision.
Yesterday,
after Panthers’ quarterback Cam Newton rushed for a touchdown, Newton stood in
the end zone pretending the football was a baby, which he proceeded to rock to
the delight of himself if no one else.
Football is family as they say, and Vince Lombardi is spinning in his
grave.
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