There are occasionally some brawls in football, with this weekend alone seeing fights in the Florida-Missouri college game Saturday and in the Baltimore Ravens-Pittsburgh Steelers NFL game Sunday. But it’s more unusual to see a very one-sided fight where one player just throws two punches at an unexpecting player (who was still wearing a helmet). That happened Sunday afternoon, though, with Chicago Bears’ receiver Javon Wims punching New Orleans Saints’ DB Chauncey Gardner-Johnson twice. That led to a brawl (seen above), but here’s the initial punches:
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And here’s a replay:
This came after Gardner-Johnson poked Bears’ receiver Anthony Miller through his face mask:
But that’s still quite the reaction by Wims. And it saw him ejected. The Saints would go on to win 26-23 in overtime.
[Bryan Fischer on Twitter/The Chicago Sun-Times; photo from Mike Dinovo/USA Today Sports]
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Andrew Bucholtz has been covering sports media for Awful Announcing since 2012. He is also a staff writer for The Comeback. His previous work includes time at Yahoo! Sports Canada and Black Press.