Sunday’s NFC championship rematch featured some of the weird ejections in current reminiscence.
Dom DiSandro, the Philadelphia Eagles’ head of safety, was tossed from the sidelines after moving into an altercation with Dre Greenlaw of the San Francisco 49ers.
DiSandro, often called “Large Dom” to many within the Philly neighborhood, has been part of the Eagles’ group since 1999 and has been seen on the sidelines as head of safety for all gamers, coaches and workers for the workforce.
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Philadelphia Eagles head coach Nick Siriani and safety head Dom DiSandro head to the locker room through the recreation between the Minnesota Vikings and the Philadelphia Eagles on September 14, 2023, at Lincoln Monetary Area, in Philadelphia, PA. (Andy Lewis/Icon Sportswire by way of Getty Photographs)
DiSandro stepped in entrance of Greenlaw after the 49ers star linebacker suplexed DeVonta Smith out of bounds and was flagged for pointless roughness.
“Large Dom” appeared to have phrases for Greenlaw that he didn’t like, resulting in the linebacker swiping at him. That’s when officers and each groups began to get extra concerned to interrupt issues up earlier than it received bodily.
Niners head coach Kyle Shanahan originally said he was “not a fan” that “somebody not concerned in a soccer recreation can taunt our gamers like that and put their hand in our man’s face.”
However now that the mud has settled down, he walked again his feedback a bit.
Dec 3, 2023; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; Ref breaks up San Francisco 49ers linebacker Dre Greenlaw’s altercation with Philadelphia Eagles workers member Dom DiSandro through the third quarter at Lincoln Monetary Area. (Invoice Streicher-USA TODAY Sports activities)
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“I positively don’t have any onerous emotions in direction of Dom or something like that,” he instructed reporters on Monday, by way of CBS Sports activities. “I don’t need anybody to go too onerous on him. I feel he simply received caught in a bizarre scenario and an emotional scenario. So, no onerous emotions in direction of him. I do know lots of people who know him and converse very extremely of him. I simply couldn’t imagine we misplaced our participant due to it.”
Eagles coach Nick Sirianni apologized to Shanahan for the incident.
“It was actually extra so to say to Kyle, we respect you guys and your workforce. That’s what that was about,” Sirianni stated. “I haven’t heard something from the league. Dom is pretty much as good as they get on this enterprise. I’m so grateful for him. He’s going to at all times attempt to diffuse conditions, proper? That’s what he does. That’s his job.
“I do know in Dom’s coronary heart, he actually was attempting to diffuse the scenario proper there. I’m unhappy that it got here to what it got here to, that anyone received thrown out of the sport. The play was what it was. There was a variety of emotion in that recreation. I’ve seen Dom have to try this earlier than the place he’s attempting to diffuse the scenario. Once more, that’s what he does.”
DiSandro directs safety on the workforce’s coaching complicated whereas being chargeable for all safety measures associated to workforce journey, logistics and extra. He’s additionally chargeable for offering training to gamers, coaches and workers with regard to the league’s private conduct coverage.
Dec 3, 2023; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; San Francisco 49ers linebacker Dre Greenlaw (57) has an altercation with Philadelphia Eagles workers member Dom DiSandro through the third quarter at Lincoln Monetary Area. (Invoice Streicher-USA TODAY Sports activities)
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The Niners received the sport, 42-19, to enhance to 9-3 on the season. Philly dropped to 10-2.
Fox Information’ Scott Thompson contributed to this report.
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