{"id":67343,"date":"2025-12-22T07:10:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T07:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/67343\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T07:10:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T07:10:11","slug":"metcalf-takes-swing-at-fan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/67343\/","title":{"rendered":"Metcalf takes swing at fan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DK Metcalf got into an altercation with a Lions fan in the second quarter:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/metcalf-fan.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" data-og=\"true\" class=\"fr-fic fr-dii\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Metcalf was not available for an interview after the game. He left the locker room before the media was allowed in.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mike Tomlin&#8217;s only comments on the incident didn&#8217;t reveal much more than that, either.<\/p>\n<p>&#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; he said.\u00a0&#8220;So, I have no comment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The NFL will review the incident. The most recent precedent for how the league might handle this goes back to September this season when a fan slapped Lamar Jackson&#8217;s helmet and he retaliated by shoving the fan. The fan was ejected and banned from the stadium. Jackson was not punished by the league.<\/p>\n<p>We still don&#8217;t know what the fan might have done or said to prompt the response from Metcalf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DK Metcalf got into an altercation with a Lions fan in the second quarter: Metcalf was not available&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[6538,24481,1418,73,75,74,1829],"class_list":{"0":"post-67343","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-dk-metcalf","9":"tag-feed-article","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-pittsburgh","12":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","13":"tag-pittsburgh-news","14":"tag-steelers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}