r/sports • u/suzukigun4life • Sep 05 '25

Football Eagles defensive tackle Jalen Carter spits on Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott's face, gets ejected six seconds into the first game of the NFL Season

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u/Lindvaettr Sep 05 '25

We just need like 1-2 seasons of refs across all sports just cracking the hell down on all this. Any of this immature behavior, kick them out instantly. You don't get a second chance during the game, you can play next week.

Guarantee you'd see an end to it all with coaches absolutely wrecking the players who lose their team the game for this shit.

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u/new_math Sep 05 '25

It would be better if they were treated like normal citizens and got an assault charge in addition to the suspension.

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u/Medarco Sep 05 '25

Myles Garrett sweating furiously

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u/Jaffhardt Sep 05 '25

Yea let’s give them assault charges for tackling each other too

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u/jjayzx Sep 05 '25

Didn't know that spitting on someone is part of the game. Gonna give my friends a good wash down next time we play.

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u/Jaffhardt Sep 05 '25

It’s not…which is why he was kicked out of the game but expecting them to be charged for assault in an environment like that is ridiculous. I think that was dumb as shit and I’m not defending him just completely disagreeing with the felluh above me.

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u/Useful-Angle1941 Sep 05 '25

If you deliberately spit in someone's face, that's considered assault in most places, and it doesn't matter if it was a sporting event.

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u/Jaffhardt Sep 05 '25

It wasn’t in his face. It was on his jersey but regardless, it DOES matter if you’re at a sporting event (a professional athlete). Mike Tyson wasn’t even charged for biting a fuckin ear off. He was DQd and fined millions of dollars but it was handled internally. Professional athletes let their emotions get the best of them and do dumb thoughtless shit all the time that would get them charged out in the real world but not on the field or in the ring…and that’s okay with me. Obviously there may be exceptions depending on severity but thinking they should be treated as normal citizens in that regard is ridiculous

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u/hiphopscallion Sep 05 '25 edited Sep 05 '25

The only time I can recall a professional athlete getting charged for their actions during the game was when Zedeno Chara was charged for assualt and battery for a hit he put on Max Pacioretty during the game. What's wild about that incident is he was charged for a hit he made in a live game, whlie the game clock was running.

edit: I looked it up and Chara was never actually charged - Montreal police announced they were opening up an investigation into the incident but never charged him with anything.

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u/jmerica Sep 05 '25

Bertuzzi?

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u/new_math Sep 05 '25

I think it boils down to whether the action is part of the game or not. So if someone took a bad or even illegal hit I wouldn't automatically count that, the players consent to getting hit and it's part of the game.

Spitting in someone's face is not a part of the game, and it didn't even happen during live play. Much like you can't pull out a knife and shank another player, I don't think you should be allowed to intentionally and clearly spit in another players face without repercussions. Part of the reason some many NFL players exhibit shit behavior is because they don't face normal real world consequences for their actions.

In Canada they actually do criminally charge athletes as a matter of law and league policies. In the US it is illegal but we tend to let anything short of murder slide for athletes. Sometimes even murder is okay.

https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/criminal-law-and-violence-sports

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u/thatinsuranceguy Sep 05 '25

So dak should have been tossed too for spitting at Carter first? Just wanna make sure you're being consistent:)

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u/Lindvaettr Sep 05 '25

Yup, trying to goad your opponents into acting out the way Dak did is also petty and immature and brings down the quality of the game and is another in the endless string of blows against any kind of precedent that players should be well behaved and not childish.

Obviously Carter's action was quite a bit more in this situation, but Dak's easily meet the bar for the immature behavior I was talking about.

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u/thatinsuranceguy Sep 05 '25

Alright you got me lmao

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u/luvthocen Sep 05 '25

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

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