{"id":6148,"date":"2013-10-20T15:38:35","date_gmt":"2013-10-20T19:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=6148"},"modified":"2013-10-20T15:38:35","modified_gmt":"2013-10-20T19:38:35","slug":"chris-long-ejected-for-throwing-punch-gives-the-finger-to-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/10\/20\/chris-long-ejected-for-throwing-punch-gives-the-finger-to-fans\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Long ejected for throwing punch, gives the finger to fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St. Louis Rams defensive end Chris Long was ejected from Sunday&#8217;s Week 7 game against the Carolina Panthers for throwing a punch.<\/p>\n<p>A scrum broke out and Long was the lone player that officials spotted throwing a punch. He was ejected from the game and likely will be facing a fine for his actions.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/embed\/video\/x167f15\" height=\"270\" width=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/video\/x167f15_f-i-g-h-t_creation\" target=\"_blank\">f i g h t<\/a> <i>by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/random_sports\" target=\"_blank\">random_sports<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p>As Long was walking off the field fans of the Carolina Panthers thought it was the right time to throw things at him, to which Long replied with a &#8220;bird&#8221; of his own.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6150\" alt=\"longfinger\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/10\/longfinger.jpg\" width=\"599\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/10\/longfinger.jpg 599w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/10\/longfinger-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/10\/longfinger-50x27.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Long had two tackles, one for a loss, before his ejection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Louis Rams defensive end Chris Long was ejected from Sunday&#8217;s Week 7 game against the Carolina Panthers for throwing a punch. A scrum broke out and Long was the lone player that officials spotted throwing a punch. He was ejected from the game and likely will be facing a fine for his actions. f [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-6148","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6148"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}