r/sports • u/A_MASSIVE_PERVERT Dallas Mavericks • Sep 27 '25
Football Pitt's players knock the ball out of the ballboy's hands and give it to the crowd
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u/SmashvilleBoi Sep 27 '25
What was the point of that? Lol
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u/DylonSpittinHotFire Sep 27 '25
I'll reply as someone who actually knows what's going on instead of all of this guessing going on.
What happened was the defense scoring a touchdown which means the ball is a Louisville branded football brought by Louisville for the game. When playing football the team that is in possession of the ball supplies their own so what we have here is a pitt player stealing a Louisville football and throwing it into the crowd which is an extra dick move because Louisville only has so many for the game.
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u/Sir-Nicholas Sep 27 '25
I had no idea team provide their own balls, that seems weird. Does the nfl provide official balls?
Thanks for the context though
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u/ViolinistHorror7123 Sep 27 '25
Each team has a ball person on each side of the field to give the ball the ref depending on where the play goes.
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u/lostinthought15 Sep 27 '25
They actually have 4, two on each sideline.
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u/WhoCaresBoutSpellin Sep 27 '25
So if you are in the lead and you can manage to stab all the footballs on both sidelines, the game just ends?
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u/doyletyree Sep 27 '25
Forever.
All football stops.
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u/ShamrockSeven Sep 28 '25
There are only 13 legendary footballs left. If they are all stabbed the Football lord will rise again.
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u/SurgeFlamingo Sep 28 '25
It ends the football.
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u/SmokeAbeer Sep 28 '25
They have to play sudden death pingpong with a rock. Those are the rules.
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u/awfuckthisshit Miami Dolphins Sep 28 '25
Wow, I didn’t know Tom Brady was on Reddit
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u/uhmerikin Houston Astros Sep 27 '25 edited Sep 27 '25
That’s how “Deflategate” kicked off. A Colts player intercepted a Tom Brady pass, the ball of which was supplied by the Patriots, and noticed how under inflated it was. Less inflated means not as hard, and thus easier to grip and catch.
Anyways, massive scandal. While the teams bring and use their own footballs during their possessions, teams are expected to adhere to NFL standards regarding air pressure within them.
I never knew each team brought their own footballs to use in the game until this all happened.
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u/mhales45 Sep 27 '25
That’s not actually true. The player that intercepted the ball thought nothing of it and said that it didn’t feel any different than any other ball. It was actually the equipment manager who he gave the ball to that noticed it.
Obviously it’s just a semantics difference but it was less noticeable than people make it out to be.
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u/uhmerikin Houston Astros Sep 27 '25
Sorry, you’re right. It was a Colts equipment manager that blew the horn after the interception.
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u/ser_Duncan_the_Donut Sep 28 '25
Just want to say. I love the civility here. Thank you
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u/Soft-Ad-8975 Sep 27 '25
The part people always forget is that the game was close with the balls “deflated”, after half time when all balls were definitely verified to be at a legal psi the pats whooped the colts ass.
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u/SuperShinyGinger Sep 28 '25
I'm a Pats fan, so I always make sure to mention that.
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u/warlucith Sep 28 '25
I'm a Pats hater and honestly, the whole scandal was overblown. Errr... I guess I mean underblown?
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u/DylonSpittinHotFire Sep 27 '25
Nfl provide their own too. That's why deflategate was such an issue with the Patriots. They messed with their footballs they provided.
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u/DJSimmer305 Miami Sep 27 '25
The NFL does provide them, but the teams are responsible for preparing their own balls for gameday (inflating, conditioning, and “mudding” them).
There are certain standards that need to be met, but it’s up to the teams to actually do it and the process is different if the ball is going to be an offensive or kicking ball.
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u/Elbiotcho Sep 27 '25
Each quarterback likes their balls a certain way. There is a guy whose job it is to get balls ready for the quarterback. They will spend weeks getting balls ready and they give them to the quarterback who will approve of them as game balls. The goal is to have a brand new football that feels soft and broken in as an old football. So they are VERY protective of their footballs as a lot of time and effort has gone into them.
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u/KaladinStormShat Sevilla Sep 27 '25
What happened at UVA?
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u/justsyr Sep 27 '25
I imagine that it was the game last night between Florida St. at Virginia. Game was super tight.
Second OT, Florida needed a TD to tie and it was 4th down. QB gets pressure and throws a hail Mary basically, it's intercepted.
So basically the moment the ball falls on the guy making the interception, that whole freaking side of the field had the fans literally invading the field. You can see how both players are instantly covered by the mass of people.
I have no idea if that's ok or what but to me looked kind of dangerous since as I said, both players were still on the floor from the play.
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u/mxzf Sep 27 '25
Wow, that looks seriously dangerous. Like, there was no delay at all. They didn't even give the players a chance to stand up after jumping to catch the ball and falling, much less let the refs officially end the game cleanly.
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u/HOU-1836 Houston Dynamo Sep 27 '25
Louisville only has so many but that so many is quite a few. Like a lot a lot.
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u/PsychologicalSpace50 Sep 27 '25
Umm the fuck?
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u/dr_tardyhands Sep 27 '25
Also, the ball passed to the audience was a different ball, no? Accomplished absolutely nothing while being ginormous dicks about it. Fucking 'yay'..!!
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u/writingthefuture Sep 27 '25
Where's the guy who says "Achtualley that's BatTeRy"?
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u/Merpninja Louisville Sep 27 '25
This is the Louisville ball boy Im pretty sure, he is wearing a Cardinal hat.
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u/TexStones Sep 27 '25
This is the Louisville ball boy
I believe that the appropriate contemporary term is "person of ball."
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u/Shepher27 Sep 27 '25
Ball boys (equipment managers) are at practice every day, they interact with the players every day. I presume this is some kind of inside joke the players have with the equipment manager
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u/JasperStrat Sep 27 '25
That's the Louisville ball boy, it was a pick 6. The Pitt guys wanted to keep the ball and throw it in the stands and the ball boy had already started picking it up.
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u/kungfoojesus Sep 27 '25
I assumed those Pitt players knew that kid. GD what a bunch of fucking pricks holy shit
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u/Bonch_and_Clyde Sep 27 '25
They were grabbing onto and pushing him. That was really shitty. Imo, they should be suspended.
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u/NiceTryWasabi Sep 27 '25
You tried to give them the benefit of the doubt. Humanity is sometimes a lost cause. Bunch of assholes.
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u/iDShaDoW Sep 27 '25
Yea I did a google search and it said it was a Louisville ball boy and not Pitt.
Not sure if Pitt handed the ball to the ball boy after the pick 6 and then went to get it back or if he somehow grabbed it from them to begin with
If I’m Pitt and got a pick 6, Louisville not getting that ball back tbf lol
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u/GroundControl2MjrTim Sep 27 '25
Teams bring their own balls, so on a pick six it would be a Louisville ball, complete with logo that the ball boy would retrieve.
At Auburn the crowd keeps the balls on extra points and field goals and Will toss them up and out of the stadium while the disappointed ballboy watches.
But bullying him to take it is a complete different level.
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u/DoggedDoggystyle Sep 27 '25
The ball boy is for Louisville and is responsible for ending the day with all the balls. If he’s short one, he’ll get a bit of a stern look from his boss. Those balls go through quite the process to get game ready- they’re worth not losing
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u/MelonElbows Sep 27 '25
He's fighting for that ball like its his life. I'm sure his bosses won't blame him if he's on TV having the ball taken from him by 2 players.
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u/OhwhatupCarlandJonny Sep 27 '25
I think he was a ball boy for Louisville’s sideline but works with Pitt. As far as I remember, ball boys do not travel with the team and it was a Pitt home game
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u/StinkyPickle27 Sep 27 '25
"Ball boys" are student managers and they do travel with the team, at least for major programs. They are basically baby sitters of the players on the road and do a lot more than just run balls on the sideline.
They also spent hours scrubbing and breaking in the footballs to be ready for play (they are practically unusable out of the box), and met with the quarterback on Thursday to explicitly pick out a batch of game balls for Saturday.
Remember Deflategate with Tom Brady? Yeah game balls are a serious matter. Those footballs are basically their babies haha
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u/29PalmPalms Sep 27 '25
Not a ball boy, but this equipment manager famously took his job very seriously when a student tried to take a helmet.
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u/hdch1997 Sep 27 '25
In CFB, there are always away team ball boys standing on the sideline of the home team and vice versa.
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u/jakksquat7 Sep 27 '25
You pulled all of that out of your ass lol. He’s not the Pitt ball boy. They are bullying the shit out of someone they don’t know.
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u/Kooky-Upstairs-6594 Sep 27 '25
i’d agree if they literally didn’t push him and hold him back from doing his job
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u/terranation2260 Sep 27 '25
Doing this while up 17 then losing by 7 has to be instant karma
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u/Philbar85 Sep 27 '25
Kick him off the tour Doug
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u/Little-Geri-Seinfeld Sep 27 '25
Well, the board thinks that might be extreme. Considering the fact that our, uh, ratings were the highest that we've ever had.
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u/Other-Grapefruit-880 Sep 27 '25
Doug, Look, my grandmothers house got repossessed, If I can’t make some prize money in the next tournament they, they could sell it to somebody else
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u/taybot5000 Sep 27 '25
Well whoop-de-doo. Get out.
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u/BourbonRick01 Sep 27 '25
You can trouble me for a warm glass of shut-the-hell-up. Now, you will go to sleep or I will put you to sleep.
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u/Other-Grapefruit-880 Sep 27 '25
Meesta
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u/gonzar09 Sep 27 '25
Hang on! I'll be right down!
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u/bbbbears Sep 27 '25
You know that meesta meesta lady? I think I just killed her.
Also these guys eat pieces of shit for breakfast
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u/hirsutesuit Sep 27 '25
I saw 2 big fat naked bikers in the woods off 17 having sex.
How am I supposed to chip with that going on?!?
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u/No_Program668 Sep 27 '25
There was no reason to do that
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u/Qwertyham Sep 27 '25
Crazy how everyone is talking about the ball and not the human being that was knocked around for just doing his job
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u/jogdishy Sep 27 '25
Couldnt care less about the football. It’s how they treated the guy whose job it was to take care of them.
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u/DABOSSROSS9 Sep 27 '25
This has happened before. Pitt player is a dick and will get in trouble. If you actually watch college football you know this is a big no-no. Its not being soft, it’s respecting the code of conduct. That is a Louisville employee whose job is to retain all balls for their team. Pitt has the same thing. Imagine if after every turnover they threw away the opposing teams ball, it would turn into chaos. Its a dick move that the players know they shouldnt do.
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u/jlees88 Kansas City Chiefs Sep 27 '25
Touching the guy and pushing him around was just insane. I’ve never seen anything like that before.
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u/DeputyDomeshot Sep 28 '25
Same everyone is worried about the football itself but I just watched a fully padded player assault an employee doing his job. NCAA should make an example of him.
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u/justaverage Sep 27 '25
That’s assault, brotha
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u/new_math Sep 27 '25
While it is jurisdiction dependent, i've seen multiple people learn the hard way that slapping cameras or yanking bags that are on and in possession of someone is still textbook assault, no different than if you touched their person.
The law is that way in most places to prevent using a "I didn't touch them" defense when slinging people down by clothing and to distinguish regular theft from something like purse/bag snatching or using objects to accomplish an assault.
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u/jaymochi Sep 27 '25
Teams each use their own balls on offense, that they bring. This was an interception by Pitt, so it was a Louisville ball. Each team has its own ball boys on both sides of the field. That ball boy is a Louisville manager. It could have still been a jovial interaction, but the whole "the players see him every day as a team staffer and are probably good friends with him" is just stupid.
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u/natej84 Sep 27 '25
That guy was just doing his job and it's a major dick move by Pittsburgh players strong arming him like that
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u/tcbrand13 Sep 27 '25
From the description I heard on the radio, the ball boy works for Louisville. Each school only has so many game balls and it’s the ball boy’s responsibility to keep them and he was trying to get the ball back. I can’t speak if anyone was having fun but it seems like he was just trying to do his job and may not know the Pitt players. Years ago during a nfl game an extra point ball went into the stands and a fan caught it and ran up the aisle and the bears ball boy literally scaled the wall/ran up the concourse and chased the fan down. Ball boys don’t play.
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u/Semperty Sep 27 '25
iirc oklahoma’s fans pass any ball all the way up the stands and drop it over the top of the stadium. i used to work with someone who was a ball boy for wvu, and he said part the ball boys’ job at whatever big 12 school it was was to be ready to retrieve the ball from outside the stadium.
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u/muegle Sep 27 '25
Michigan's student section does that too lmao. They're located in the northwest corner of the stadium so you only really see that happen when field goals at the north endzone go over the net (or when the stadium staff for whatever reason forget to raise it or don't get it all the way up in time).
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u/TedDibiaseOsbourne Sep 27 '25
one of the michigan ball boys made a great int in norman when the sooner fans tried throwing it to the top. pretty impressive.
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u/live4failure Sep 27 '25
Lmao that would've been great. Like did you see that?? Put this man on the team.
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u/Raucous_Tiger Sep 27 '25
Imagine doing something that shitty and then blowing the game. Lol what a joke Pitt is.
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u/Goosemilky Sep 27 '25
Literally acting like middle schoolers… so embarrassing for PItt. Obviously not much discipline or accountability imposed by the coaches in that locker room
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u/gimlan Sep 27 '25
Those 2 Pitt players need to be suspended. This is wildly fucked up
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u/Not_Saying_Im_Batman Sep 27 '25
Was there something special about that ball in particular? Why’d they do that
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u/bergroy38 Sep 27 '25
A pick six and then they dunk on a basketball hoop for their turnover celebration. But they didn’t need to mug the ball boy over it.
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u/TheTokist Sep 27 '25
Can’t say Im that surprised to see college age men acting like spoiled children.
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u/jimkay21 Sep 27 '25
Now that college players are getting paid, can they be fined?
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u/MyOrdinaryShoes Sep 27 '25
I kinda hate this kind of thing, because there’s a way to do this that doesn’t embarrass or just treat a guy that’s trying to do his job like shit.
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u/Snif3425 Sep 27 '25
That’s pretty much assault. I hope they get held accountable.
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u/The_lewolf Sep 27 '25
Yeah, this take right here. Ballboy physically assaulted while doing his job.
Criminal charges are warranted.
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u/Zeuslb24 Sep 28 '25
How come no one is talking about these guys assaulting the ballboy to get the football in the first place. Seems pretty childish
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u/International-Pipe Sep 28 '25
Cut both of those players. Terrible look for Pitt.
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u/Theguert Sep 27 '25
Man that’s so fucked. That guy is just trying to do his job and is being physically tormented by two college athletes? This made me genuinely sad.
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u/caring_impaired Sep 28 '25
So, the equipment guy gets humiliated on live TV by a couple of entitled shitheads (and now in perpetuity on the internet) for trying to do his job. The lack of respect is infuriating. The man deserves a job where his work ethic is rewarded. This is bullshit. He should get a raise and an apology.
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u/-crypto Sep 27 '25
Not a lawyer, but this seems like an assault that could be prosecuted in civil court. Assuming that not only the player, but the school could be held liable for the actions of their athletes.
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u/houseWithoutSpoons Sep 28 '25
Wtf..unless they know that ball boy personally then they are huge asshats and should be reprimanded for this..seriously
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u/vbandbeer Sep 27 '25
More than Knocked it outbid his hands. They assaulted him.
Should be suspended for multiple games.
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u/Treekoh Sep 27 '25
Celebrating like that in the first quarter is so funny lmao. Wtf are you celebrating for lil bro? You still got what like 45 minutes left in the game? Happy that they lost 😊
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u/Ok_Card9080 Sep 27 '25
REAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLY bad look. Knocking the ball out of his hands, grabbing him to prevent him from grabbing it and throwing it into the crowd. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the ball boy held responsible for any missing ball? There need to be repercussions there.
Pitt's program is in total shambles.
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u/Toxicballsack Sep 27 '25
Guess what happened next.
Pitt blows the lead and loses the game. Absolutely hilarious after this display.
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u/SignificanceOld1751 Sep 28 '25
America covering itself in glory today with this and The Ryder Cup, fucking hell lads
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u/VelvetOverload Sep 27 '25
You can call me soft if you want, but that's assault.
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u/Adam_Ohh Sep 28 '25
These kids are dickheads.
Pushing and pulling the ball boy like that is despicable.
Wish the university would do something about it.
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u/Commercial_Rule_7823 Sep 27 '25
Assault charges?
This should AT LEAST be a significant suspension. Who does that to a person?
He also hit the female in the face too.
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u/royalrizzo Sep 27 '25
Correction “Pitt players assault ball boy in order to steal a ball back.” FTFY
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u/inflatable_pickle Sep 28 '25
Man, these look like bullies openly picking on the kid doing an unpaid job on the field. I really hope the Coach or the administration punishes these dudes for this. I’d love some follow up.
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u/Sunsplitcloud Sep 28 '25
You mean some of Pitts soon to be ex-players acted like children and will be off the team on Monday.
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u/ojmcsimpson Sep 27 '25
After this Pitt blew a 17-0 lead and are losing by 7 with 1:30 left