Myers says the fight “would be like a ballet, except with no music, no choreography and the dancers hit each other.” Beaty forecasts “an epic Super Fight, the likes of the Super Bowl, with knockdowns instead of touchdowns, and a stare down instead of a coin toss.”
Johnson and Finnegan were involved in a brutal fistfight that got both players ejected in the fourth quarter of last Sunday's NFL game. Both drew fines of $25,000 (but no game suspensions) each from the National Football League. The two had been pushing and jawing earlier in the game. Last season, Johnson was fined $7,500 for taking Finnegan to the ground by the facemask during a scuffle after a play.
In segments for NFL Network and for Showtime’s Inside the NFL, Johnson is shown saying to an official, “31, when he (Finnegan) gets frustrated, he’s starting to put his hands in my facemask,” and the official replies, midway through the sentence, “Believe me, I watch him every play, everywhere.”
Inside the NFL analyst Cris Collinsworth said he was surprised Johnson was not suspended but added, “There are some times you just gotta fight, and if you get ejected, you get ejected. But in this league, if you just back down all the time, it’s not gonna be just that game. It’s gonna be every game when people see you backing away like that. $25,000, sometimes it’s worth it.”
Of Finnegan, Collinsworth added, “Cortland Finnegan plays like that all the time … in the game, in practice he’s doing the same things to his guys. He’s a scrappy, fighting guy. But don’t think of him like this jerk. If you talked to him, he would answer every question with ‘Yes, sir.’ His mom is a police officer. But when you get between the lines, it’s a fight.”
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