IF A COACH tells you to play the ball, not the man, this is not what they mean.
San Francisco tight end Vernon Davis was left in considerable pain last night following this tackle by TJ McDonald of the St Louis Rams.
You see, McDonald really wanted to take Davis down and so he grabbed him by the manhood to get the job done.
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“It should be a league rule saying a defender can not tackle a player by his penis,” Davis later tweeted and while most right-thinking observers would agree, he later deleted the tweet.
We’re not completely up to speed on all of the subsections of the NFL rule book but this, for us, goes down as “illegal contact.”
