How to get fired in the NFL

Go to the locker room, sucker punch your quarterback in the face, break his jaw and put him out for 6 to 10 weeks.

Geno Smith​

The Jets lost quarterback Geno Smith for six to 10 weeks after he was “sucker-punched” by teammate IK Enemkpali on Tuesday morning in the locker room.

Smith suffered a broken jaw and had to undergo surgery. He will be gone for the start of the Jets season.

“It’s something we don’t tolerate,” Jets coach Todd Bowles said. “It’s something we can’t stand. You don’t walk up to another man and punch him in the face.”

Enemkpali, a linebacker drafted in the sixth round of the 2014 draft, was immediately released by the team.​

Enemkpali had been signed to a four year contract. Well, that's out the window.



A white referee could have stopped that, but nobody wants to talk about black-on-black violence.

Referees do not patrol the locker rooms. At any level of football. It is not their job.

Try to remember whose post you're responding to. This is another of @gturner's "Make Shit Up and Pretend He Isn't Racist" threads.

And that's why there's so much locker room violence. We know the players are trouble because we see them on the field tackling each other, blocking each other, and chasing each other. The refs watch them commit strings of illegal offences, so why do the refs pretend that such behavior is just going to stop as soon as they leave the field?

Wait till the protests start: "What is football? It's a handful of white guys busting black guys for trying to win in a system that's rigged against them!"

BECAUSE IT IS NOT THEIR JOB!!!

How freaking hard is that for you to understand!!!!! FBI Agents and Game Wardens might both technically be in law enforcement but we don't send Warden Joe off to take on domestic terror cells.

Come on gturner.

The only reasonable response to a @gturner thread/post:

Pssst...it's gtard. He only posts stuff to get people riled up. He offers nothing but retarded entertainment to the board.

Texas game wardens have had run-ins with cartel drug smugglers along the border, especially at Falcon Lake.

But that's because we're not arming the refs. All they have is a whistle and a flag when they need to have a Glock and a taser, too.

It is so Jets. It's funny enough on its own but the fact that it's the Jets and I'm a Dolphins fan makes it absolutely hilarious. There's a debate going on on the Dan LeBatard show on whether or not this is even more Jets then the butt fumble.

A referee "patrolling" a locker room? There's a gay porn movie waiting to happen!

I tagged a Jets fan friend of mine on Twitter and he replied, "#jets just #jetsing"

Or a straight one!

NFL referee Sarah Thomas

Not unheard of pro sports behavior. Fucking gargantuan cry babies and bullies earning more in a couple of seasons than most of us will ever earn over the course of our careers. That's why the UFC and boxing rarely have this problem. You're supposed to earn your living punching people in the face in those sports!

Holy shit I just realized - since I haven't watched a pro football game since I lived with my parents decades ago (my dad was a football fan) - a fucking black quarterback? I think there was a total of zero of them thirty years ago. What's next, hockey? Diving/swimming? The mind boggles!

Warren Moon would almost be 30 years ago

I have no idea who that is. I'm guessing one of the first black quarterbacks? Seriously the only name I recognize in football in William "The refrigerator" Perry! Sadly he dies recently. He did a SuperBowl Rap or something a long time ago I think.

Actually there have been a handful off and on through the years.

Doug Williams of the Washington Redskins ( previously Tampa Bay and the USFL) was the first Super Bowl winning black quarterback.

Meet the media in the week running up to the Super Bowl featured one of the funniest Super Bowl questions of all time directed at Doug Williams.

"Hey Doug? How long have you been a black quarterback?"

Perry was a defensive tackle for Chicago who they allowed to run the ball on occasion. It was meant by Mike Ditka as an insult toward 49ers coach Bill Walsh who in 49er win over Chicago the year before had allowed offensive guard Guy McIntyre to run the ball at the end of the game.

I think that's one of those Zen koans that have no real logical answer, they just fuck with your mind.

Whoa, slow down! You lost me at defensive tackle.

He was the quarterback for the Houston Oilers in the early 90's.

I think the fact that the locker room allowed their starting QB to be punched in the face goes to show how much respect they have for Geno Smith.

Perhaps but Perry was legitimately fat considering he was only six feet, two inches.

Yeah, UFC fighters and boxers just beat up women outside of the ring.

Where's @Liet?

There are guys in the NFL that heavy today who aren't so fat.

A 300+ pound guy who's all muscle is a seriously scary dude.

I had his G.I. Joe figure. To get it you had to save a number of proofs of purchase and then mail it in.

I thought he died! You know what - I'm thinking of Rerun from "What's Happening". Anyway true about players getting bigger. And, players are getting faster. Crunch the numbers and huge people running into each other at fast speeds and you have serious injuries whether now or later. That's just not natural! Not a soccer fan, but most of those guys are under 200 pounds - in other words normal sized people. I can relate to that. Baseball, the UFC, boxing, weightlifting, etc. are normal sized people. Athletic people, but people you can relate to. I don't know too many people 300 pounds. Hence football is not representative of the average human - so I cannot relate.