Steelers' Antonio Brown Gets 15-Yard Penalty for Kicking Browns Punter in Head
September 7, 2014
This is what happens when hurdling doesn't go as planned.
The Pittsburgh Steelers' Antonio Brown tried to hurdle Cleveland Browns punter Spencer Lanning during a return in the second quarter of Sunday's game. That didn't work out so well, as Lanning took a pretty hard kick to the face.
For anyone who didn't know it before, players aren't allowed to kick other players in the face.
Update: Sept. 11 at 6:27 p.m. ET
Brown has been fined $8,200 by the NFL for the incident, according to NFL Network's Ian Rapoport:
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Update: Sept. 7 at 8 p.m. ET
Brown talked about the kick after the game, via ESPN.com's Scott Brown:
No intent to hurt him. I had my mind made up that he was going over me. I thought he was going low and I tried to leap over him. It was just a bad outcome of a play.
Lanning showed off his sense of humor with a simple tweet after the contest, which the Steelers won 30-27:
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Update: Sept. 7 at 10:10 p.m. ET
It didn't take very long for Brown's kick to get mixed with The Karate Kid.
[Around the NFL, Vine; h/t Lost Lettermen]
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