{"id":5876,"date":"2025-12-22T07:55:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T07:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=5876"},"modified":"2025-12-22T07:55:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T07:55:51","slug":"detroit-lions-24-29-pittsburgh-steelers-dk-metcalf-appears-to-punch-lions-fan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=5876","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Lions 24-29 Pittsburgh Steelers: DK Metcalf appears to punch Lions fan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The fan, identified as Ryan Kennedy, said he called out to Metcalf using his full name.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I called him that, and then he grabbed me and ripped my shirt,&#8221; Kennedy <a href=\"https:\/\/eu.freep.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/lions\/2025\/12\/21\/dk-metcalf-punch-pittsburgh-steelers-detroit-lions-ford-field\/87875725007\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">told the Detroit Free Press.<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-1f39n02-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m a little shocked. Everyone&#8217;s talking to me. I&#8217;m a little rattled, but I just want the Lions to win, baby.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As the officials did not see the incident, Metcalf remained in the game and finished with four catches for 42 yards as the Steelers claimed a third successive win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, he could still be disciplined, with the league reviewing the altercation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin said: &#8220;I heard about it, but I hadn&#8217;t seen it and I hadn&#8217;t had an opportunity to talk to DK.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/american-football\/articles\/cjdr4n0vj0zo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fan, identified as Ryan Ke&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[251],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5876"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}