'Big Dom!' How Dallas Cowboys' 'Security Man' Sideline Fight With Jalen Hurts Guarantees Eagles Loss
FRISCO - How did some non-playing, inconsequential fat guy on the sideline just greatly threaten to influence the outcome of an actual NFL game?
In what might be the most outrageous example of a) NFL referees ineptitude and/or b) the Philadelphia Eagles gall, some guy named "Big Dom'' was allowed to engage in a second-half sideline conflict with San Francisco 49ers linebacker Dre Greenlaw. ... resulting in an ejection by both people.
Fair? No, because one person who was ejected - Greenlaw - actually has something to do with the game, and deserved the thumb.
But the other guy? It makes no difference if he is "beloved'' by Eagles players in his role as the team's director of security, or if he goes to church three times daily and saves puppies from burning buildings. This person named "Dom DiSandro'' has absolutely no place interacting with the on-field action, which is exactly what he did when he decided to vocally and physically express his displeasure with a Greenlaw hit.
Policing Greenlaw is the job of the refs - not the job of a street-clothes Eagles employee.
The FOX broadcast team seemed to find the mess amusing, with analyst Greg Olsen saying of "Big Dom'' as he exited the field to cheers from the audience at The Linc, “They might erect a statue to him!''
DiSandro essentially baited Greenlaw into poking him in the face. Then came the double-ejection, a terrific trade for the Eagles. San Francisco loses a starter, and Philly loses a janitor or a bookkeeper or an equipment manager or some other innocuous staffer?
Using this logic, the Dallas Cowboys, who play host to the Eagles next week, should devise a plan. Somebody in Dallas' employ - again, it can be a security chief or a janitor or a Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader or Jerry Jones Jr., for God's sake - should initiate a fight with Philly MVP quarterback Jalen Hurts.
The overwhelmed refs will intervene. They will eject the security/janitor/Cheerleader/Jones. And they will eject Jalen Hurts.
Fair enough?
