VIDEO: Jason Worilds throws haymaker, somehow doesn't get ejected
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The Pittsburgh Steelers should probably count themselves lucky. Linebacker Jason Worilds just did this, yet somehow didn't get kicked out of the game:
Worilds was assessed a 15-yard penalty, but that's it. NFL rules stipulate that any player who throws a punch must be ejected.
Worilds may have been saved by a technicality. Former NFL vice president of officiating Mike Pereira explains:
No ejection for an open hand blow to the face. That is specific in the rule. Closed fist blow is to be an ejection. That was open hand.
— Mike Pereira (@MikePereira) January 4, 2015
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