Tonight’s much hyped “Manning Bowl” was a pure dud. Peyton crushed the Giants and younger brother Eli to the tune of 38-14. Which is not all that unexpected. What is a bit unexpected is that now backup running back for the G-Men Brandon Jacobs lost his cool and threw his helmet into the Indy crowd. And the wost part of this? It’s not the worst part of the story!  Apparently, Jacobs claims that he tried to throw his helmet into the ground/bench area and it got caught on his finger and slipped 10 rows deep into the crowd. This I can actually buy. He’s an idiot blow hard overpaid athlete for doing it, but hey I still buy it. The most important part to take away from this is that NO ONE GOT HURT. Which is a good thing.

   The annoying/worse part of this comes after. The fan who caught the projectile that was flung in his general direction, thought he had a souvenir. Wouldn’t we all? Sure we would. Well, that’s not what the stadium officials thought. They decided they wanted the helmet back. The great thing is this guy said nope it’s mine, and a little altercation of sorts happened. This was all caught on tape by NBC and they even got the stadium attendant RIPPING the helmet out of the guys hands! Of course once the cops were on their way they stopped showing it, mostly b/c I am sure some NFL suit realized, um wait we just did an asshole thing to one of our fans we better stop showing it. I have since tried to find more footage of it, but it’s all been taken down every where I look, and all we get are still images everywhere or “video no longer available”. Great cover up job NBC/NFL. I am sure they are looking into this and I am hoping we hear tomorrow they made it right to the fan, with some sort of signed this or that for him. It was just a disgrace to see the way they treated this guy.

   I have seen this before at baseball games. Guys lose their bats into the stands when it slips out of their hands and the hitter wants the bat back to use now. However, I have always then (when I am there myself) seen a team rep come and give that fan SOMETHING of the player or the team. Usually these things are good signed items or another bat for him. There are plenty of stories of people selling the big HR balls, but there are also some stories out there of players getting a ball from a fan for free and they will generally give them something signed like a jersey or something in return for the milestone ball. That’s just the right thing to do. The NFL/Colts/Giants need to make this right. It’s a black eye on the stadium and the team and the moron Jacobs as well. Don’t get me wrong I am 99.9999% sure Jacobs will get his. Nfl commissioner Roger Goodell is a notorious hard ass, and Giants head coach Tom Coughlin is possibly just as much of a hard ass as well, so I am sure one way or another Jacobs will be fined a decent amount and or sitting a game or two.  If guys get fined tens of thousands of dollars for TD celebrations, I am sure a flying helmet is good for some cash as well.

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