Alvin Kamara, Tyrann Mathieu fire back at Giants owner over taunting comments

A pair of prominent former SEC football players are among the many people responding to New York Giants’ owner John Mara’s recent comments on taunting.

The NFL’s recent crackdown on taunting penalties has led to the return of “No Fun League” criticism. Mara, who is on the NFL’s competition committee, recently addressed the focus on taunting (via Pro Football Talk):

“That’s something we discuss every year in the Competition Committee. We get kind of sick and tired of the talking that does go on from time to time on the field. We tried to balance the sportsmanship with allowing the players to have fun and there’s always a fine line there, but none of us like to see that. It’s just a question of whether you can have rules that can be enforced and without taking the fun out of the game too, but nobody wants to see a player taunting another player. I know, I certainly don’t. I think the rest of the members of the Competition Committee feel the same way, too.”

Pro Football Talk’s headline for the story included a portion of Mara’s quote. As of right now, PFT’s tweet linking to the post has 521 quote tweets to 119 likes. The quote-tweet responses are overwhelmingly negative of Mara. Kamara and Mathieu are among those taking shots at the Giants owner:

? ?? as helllll…. https://t.co/NLQYaIZiWs

— Alvin Kamara (@A_kamara6) August 17, 2021

https://twitter.com/Mathieu_Era/status/1427748466760028162

Safe to say Mara isn’t particularly popular with NFL players and fans right now.

SDS Staff

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