{"id":362803,"date":"2025-12-22T01:09:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T01:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/362803\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T01:09:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T01:09:11","slug":"dk-metcalf-takes-a-swing-at-lions-fan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/362803\/","title":{"rendered":"DK Metcalf takes a swing at Lions fan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steelers receiver DK Metcalf could be missing a game. Or more.<\/p>\n<p>During the first half of Sunday\u2019s Pittsburgh-Detroit game, Metcalf went to the stands to interact with a fan. He possibly grabbed the fan\u2019s Honolulu blue wig <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MikeBeauvais\/status\/2002870994067935712?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">before throwing a closed fist<\/a> toward his face; it looks as if Metcalf grabbed the fan\u2019s T-shirt and pulled down. <\/p>\n<p>Also, it\u2019s hard to tell whether it was a glancing blow or Metcalf missed. (If Metcalf had connected firmly, the fan likely would not have remained standing.)<\/p>\n<p>Metcalf was not ejected. The question is whether he\u2019ll be suspended. <\/p>\n<p>And the league presumably has little tolerance for contact with fans. Look for more on this to happen as soon as Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Steelers receiver DK Metcalf could be missing a game. Or more. During the first half of Sunday\u2019s Pittsburgh-Detroit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-362803","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362803","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=362803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}