Giants WR Beckham suspended for Vikings game

Odell Beckham Jr. has been suspended for a game after a messy one on Sunday in which the New York Giants wide receiver drew three personal foul penalties besides tangling with Panthers cornerback Josh Norman.

-By now, the unsportsmanlike antics between Beckham Jr., who is appealing the one-game suspension he received from the National Football League for his part in the melee with Panthers cornerback Josh Norman are well documented and have overtaken the Giants’ incredible comeback from a 35-7 deficit to tie the game.

The NFL suspended Beckham on Monday without pay for the Giants’ Week 16 game, citing multiple violations of player safety rules. In the second half, Beckham launched himself at Norman and delivered a helmet-to-helmet hit. I’m sure Norman and some of the Panthers’ other defensive backs trash-talked with Beckham Sunday, because the next time Norman goes a day without trash-talking will be the next time he contracts severe laryngitis.

Beckham leads the Giants with 91 catches for 1,396 yards and 13 touchdowns.

The Giants saw their playoff hopes take another hit, but not before OBJ took several swings at Norman in a heated matchup that quickly got out of control and only got worse.

Tensions between Beckham and Norman grew, however, before the game even had its first snap.

While Beckham, Jr.is just a young player in this league and will certainly learn from the mistakes that he made on the field, not everyone is too happy with the young receiver right now. He aired his displeasure with the officiating early in the game, and felt his uproar triggered a pair of unnecessary roughness penalties from his players that changed the course of the game. After Sunday’s game, Beckham refused to discuss his run-ins with Norman. “I’m a competitor. We are always going to go at it”, Beckham said, according to the Associated Press.

If the blow had landed exactly the way Beckham intended, at least Norman but likely both players would have wound up with a concussion. After gathering himself, Norman strutted over Beckham and appeared to knee him in the face mask, drawing offsetting fouls. “To take a shot at a guy’s head, I mean, come on now”.

Drummond said players took the bat to NY as a way of remembering cornerback Bene Benwikere, who suffered a season-ending broken leg against Atlanta.

“At numerous times during yesterday’s game against the Carolina Panthers, your actions placed a fellow player at unnecessary risk…and clearly did not represent the high standards of sportsmanship expected”, wrote Hanks.

Coughlin needed to be better than the woefully overmatched refs on Sunday, and he needed to be better than the response he gave Monday about keeping Beckham on the field.

He also previously tweeted a photo mocking Beckham’s famous one-handed catch from last year that showed the second-year player grabbing an L for “loss” or “loser” instead of a ball.

Coughlin said he seriously considered taking his star receiver out of the game to calm him down.