{"id":205033,"date":"2025-12-22T11:55:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T11:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/205033\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T11:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T11:55:07","slug":"detroit-lions-24-29-pittsburgh-steelers-dk-metcalf-appears-to-punch-lions-fan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/205033\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Lions 24-29 Pittsburgh Steelers: DK Metcalf appears to punch Lions fan"},"content":{"rendered":"<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\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told the Detroit Free Press., external<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The fan, identified as Ryan Kennedy, said he called out to Metcalf using his full name. &#8220;I called&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-205033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}