{"id":139170,"date":"2025-09-07T10:35:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T10:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/139170\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T10:35:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T10:35:07","slug":"sean-jones-once-had-a-very-specific-plan-for-retaliation-after-being-spit-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/139170\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Jones once had a very specific plan for retaliation after being spit on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While researching on Friday the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/best-guess-as-to-jalen-carter-punishment-57-222-fine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">past punishments<\/a> for NFL players who decided to spit on opponents, we tripped over something that\u2019s too good to not share.<\/p>\n<p>After Broncos linebacker Bill Romanowski spat in the face of 49ers receiver J.J. Stokes, former NFL defensive end Sean Jones shared a story about being on the wrong end of a salivary-gland assault.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had a guy spit in my face once,\u201d Jones said at the time, via the Los Angeles Times. \u201cDenver tight end Clarence Kay spit in my face and I went to the sideline straight to the trainer\u2019s medical kit, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/archives\/la-xpm-1998-jan-22-sp-10880-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">took out a scalpel<\/a> and was making my way back onto the field when Howie Long stopped me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Setting aside the question of why a trainer would have a scalpel, it must have been some sort of sharp object. And Jones apparently was intent on using it, until his teammate intervened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While researching on Friday the past punishments for NFL players who decided to spit on opponents, we tripped&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-139170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}