This Weekend in NFL Stupid highlights the dumbest decisions in football throughout the season.
The winner: New York Giants wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr.
This has very little to do with the jabs Beckham threw at Cortland Finnegan’s head, which weren’t sucker-punches. Honestly, maybe this has something to do with my hockey-obsessed Canadian roots, but I’m not about to go all Helen Lovejoy over a punch or two to a helmet in the heat of battle.
You could argue that said punches from Beckham were stupid in that they cost his team 15 yards while also jeopardizing his all-important hands, but the majority of the tussling Beckham did with Finnegan and Josh Norman wasn’t enough for him to be crowned the idiot of the week in the NFL.
No, this is all about one particularly ridiculous, unacceptable and downright stupid act.
In this day and age, that’s as uncool as a play gets. There’s no doubt Beckham should have been tossed, and he deserves that suspension.
First runner-up: Referee Terry McAuley
For not ejecting Beckham before the tension ever rose to that point, let alone when the infraction occurred.
Second runner-up: Baltimore Ravens head coach John Harbaugh
For running a fake punt on a 4th-and-9 from his own 17-yard line, leading directly to a Kansas City Chiefs touchdown in the first quarter of what was a one-score game.
