“The question of what instigated that is what we’re trying to figure out,” Laing said.

Okay, boys, make sure you do this in as chickenshit a manner as possible. You hit him while his back is turned, then you hit him while he’s down.

Sports torts are notoriously difficult to prove, because the violence must not be specific to the nature of the sport in question (i.e., a hockey player who gets slammed especially hard into the boards has no claim, since the act of playing that sport involves a certain assumption of risk).

One kid going out of his way to ambush an official is one thing. Two of them doing at once tells me this was ordered from the sidelines. If that’s true, end their season right now and fire the staff.

Roger Goodell would definitely fuck up the discipline on this one.

Not to be over dramatic, but that is nothing short of assault.