Leonard Fournette has had a rough week. His Jaguars lost to to the Bills on Sunday 24-21 for their seventh loss in a row. He got into fisticuffs with Bills lineman Shaq Lawson following a catch from Jaguars teammate Donte Moncrief. The resulting brawl resulted in not only Fournette being ejected from the game but a one-game suspension.
Fournette also had to deal with the fans in Buffalo following the brawl. It was already cold and Bills fans were riled up by the game itself against a team that eliminated them from the playoffs in the previous year. The fight just merely added more energy to the already electric stadium.
Then one fan took it too far. A video of Fournette walking off the field reveals a beer can being chucked in his direction and making contact with his helmet. Fournette to his credit doesn’t seem to react.
A #Bills fan captured this video of Shaq Lawson & Leonard Fournette entering the tunnel after their fight during yesterday’s game. It appears to show Fournette getting hit with a beer can.
Warning: language is NSFW.
(🎥: Nick Lombardo on FB) pic.twitter.com/XVYQTWUHZ3
— Bradley Gelber (@BradleyGelber) November 27, 2018
There’s a hostile environment and then there’s a dangerous one. As soon as fans start throwing objects that’s when a stadium becomes dangerous. Credit to Fournette for being able to not react, because nobody would blame him if he had tried to find who it was that threw the can at him. Of course, that would have merely riled up the crowd further so it’s probably better for Fournette that he didn’t seek out the thrower.
Hopefully, the Bills managed to find that fan and remove them from the stadium. There’s no need for this in any stadium. Fans that throw objects deserve to not only be removed, but banned from a stadium entirely.
