The Stupidest Sports Book of All Time by Kathryn Petras

Author:Kathryn Petras
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
Published: 2017-12-30T05:00:00+00:00

STUPIDEST REASONS FOR GETTING SUSPENDED IN SPORTS

If you’re a player, you don’t want to do things that take you out of the game. After all, you’re there to play, not to sit at home watching TV and eating potato chips. The fans have that part covered. But players are human, and they often do things they shouldn’t. Here are some marvelously stupid reasons for being ousted from the game.

Reason for Suspension: Tackling the ref during the game

Who Did It: Two football players from John Jay High School in San Antonio, Texas (2015)

What Happened: Decided that the ref made a mistaken call and so one player tackled the ref from behind and his buddy piled on after the ref was down.

What Happened Next: The ref didn’t see the humor in this and booted both out. John Jay went on to lose the game by 6 points.

Reason for Suspension: Selling autographs as a college athlete

Who Did It: Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel (2013)

What Happened: Allegedly accepted $7,500 for signing approximately three hundred mini- and full-size helmets while he was attending the Walter Camp Football Foundation event.

What Happened Next: The allegations couldn’t be proved, so all he got was a half-game suspension. He soon signed an $8.25 million contract with the Cleveland Browns.

Reason for Suspension: Stomping on opposing player’s face

Who Did It: Titans defensive end Albert Haynesworth (2006)

What Happened: Knocked off Dallas Cowboys center Andre Gurode’s helmet and stomped on his face. The whole thing played out on live TV . . . and over and over again on instant replay.

What Happened Next: Gurode needed thirty stitches and Haynesworth was suspended for five games. It was only the second multi-game suspension in NFL history for an incident on the field.

Note: It wasn’t the first time Haynesworth’s temper got the best of him. In his college days, he went after a fellow player with a long pole. But it wasn’t televised, and his coach stopped him in time, so he only got a half-game suspension. We are all left wondering: What was Albert planning to do with the long pole? (Don’t think about it.)

Reason for Suspension: Skate-stomping an opposing player

Who Did It: New York Islanders left wing Chris Simon (2007)

What Happened: Skated behind opposing player Jarkko Ruutu, pulled Ruutu’s leg back with his own, and when Ruutu fell, stomped on his leg with his sharp skate. To the objective observer, it looked, well, kind of deliberate.

What Happened Next: Simon was suspended for thirty games (five more than an earlier suspension he received for taking a two-handed baseball swing to the face of opposing player Ryan Hollweg). For a while, Simon held the dubious record for the longest suspension in NHL history, but in 2015, Raffi Torres of the San Jose Sharks was suspended forty-one games for illegal checking—and fined $440,860.29. Ouch, that really hurts.

Reason for Suspension: Shooting himself

Who Did It: New York Giants receiver Plaxico Burress (2008)

What Happened: Discharged his illegally owned handgun into his own leg at a Manhattan club.

What Happened Next:

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