Dez Bryant and Tyler Patmon got into a fight at Dallas Cowboys training camp on Sunday. You've probably heard something about it by now.
And, in addition to the national and local media, the Cowboys themselves covered the fight between their own players. With exclusive video!
NFL teams started covering themselves a long time ago, but this is the first time (that I can remember, at least) that a team has covered an intrasquad fight like it was a normal practice function. In the Cowboys' defense, it's impossible to pull the nothing-to-see-here card when thousands of fans and hundreds of media watch the fight happen in real time. "This was our second day of having this crowd out here," Jerry Jones told ESPN afterward. "And the kind of atmosphere that everybody's worked to put together, and that atmosphere breeds that kind of passion, that kind of excitement, and sure enough here comes some little after-the-whistle action. ... That's good stuff. That's training camp." Head coach Jason Garrett had complained Saturday's practice was not physical enough. It's only a matter of time before fights break out at 31 training camps across the league. And any publicity is good publicity, especially as long as Jerry's running things. But, still, the Cowboys invited comments like this into their timeline:
I'm not saying it's wrong. I'm just saying it's... weird.