An NFL field is a workplace where employees are ordered to physically attack employees of other companies for three hours, then change clothes in full view of their co-workers. It’s not your local coffee shop, is what I’m saying, unless you like to order a triple espresso poured over an enemy’s head. Yet even within an NFL team, certain conduct falls into the “Nope, Sorry, Not Under Any Circumstances” banner, like what Jonathan Gannon did Sunday.
To summarize: Cardinals running back Emari Demercado dropped the ball 71.5 yards into a 72-yard run, turning a touchdown into a touchback, and turning Gannon, his coach, into Bob Knight. On the Cardinals’ sideline, Gannon appeared to hit Demarcado twice: Once hard enough to jolt the 215-pound Demarcado, and then again as he stormed away. For most of the 20th century, America would have shrugged. But nobody can act like Bob Knight anymore, a societal development that used to kill Knight before he died.
