Hi, Stile.
Stile writes:
I'm referring to that one punt return. I think it was the Pittsburgh guy getting behind the Green Bay guy and trying to push him into the ball? Well, the GB guy didn't like that... you see, that's just a bit too much physical-ness in a physical-game like football, so he turns around and cuffs 'em one upside the head.
He didn't get mad because the Pittsburgh player was being too physical: he got mad because he didn't recognize that he had gotten himself into one of those rare situations in which it was both legal and reasonable to push around a punt returner who didn't have the ball.
He thought the Pittsburgh player was trying to start something, when, really, he was just trying to push him into the ball to make it a live ball that Pittsburgh could recover.
-Bluejay (a.k.a. Mantis, Thylacosmilus)
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