Newsflash: WWE-style body slams are frowned upon in the NFL
Many of us have enjoyed or continue to enjoy the scripted battles of the WWE. But as you maybe learned after trying a People’s Elbow on your brother and being sent to your room by Mom, wrestling moves outside of the ring aren’t always celebrated.
Just ask the Chicago Bears’ Leonard Floyd.
Dumb move, costly penalty
Early in the first half of the Bears’ game against the Miami Dolphins, Brock Osweiler passed to Danny Amendola on second-and-7 just outside the red zone.
Amendola was just shy of the first-down marker, and while fighting to get there he ran into Floyd, who has about 7 inches and 60 pounds on Amendola. With Amendola bent at the waist — which put him roughly at Floyd’s waist — Floyd hooked the receiver’s left leg, picked him up, twisted and slammed him to the turf.
Just like your mom with your brother, the referees didn’t take too kindly to the move.
Dolphins take advantage
Floyd was flagged for unnecessary roughness, which in this case was a half-the-distance-to-the-goal 8-yard penalty and gave Miami first-and-goal from the 7.
After a Frank Gore run, Osweiler completed a 5-yard touchdown to Nick O’Leary in the right corner of the end zone.
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