Just when you thought news from Saturday’s Bengals-Steelers AFC Wild Card playoff matchup was over, you were wrong.
Steelers offensive lineman Ramon Foster told 93.7 The Fan in Pittsburgh that Vontaze Burfict, who was accused of spitting on David DeCastro, was not the only Bengal to do so.
“He wasn’t the only guy. I will say that he had another culprit out there with him,” Foster said.
It gets even crazier.
Ramon Foster just told us on @937thefan Vontaze Burfict wasn't only Bengals player to spit on a Steeler on Saturday.— Colin Dunlap (@colin_dunlap) January 12, 2016
Foster added, “It’s uncommon. And I think it’s a huge deal. Spitting on somebody is a huge offense. You take that as a sign of major disrespect. I don’t care what venue you’re in – basketball, football, hockey, or you’re at your neighborhood bar – spitting on somebody is unacceptable.”
It would be hard to prove that Burfict or anybody else spit on a Steelers player, but for players to speak up saying as much, the allegations are damning. It’s not every Sunday that you hear of players spitting on one another.
Burfict spit on DeCastro and it very well might have happened here. #Steelers #Bengals https://t.co/82ttFPpaAA pic.twitter.com/4MCWGh0mgR
— Steelers Depot 7⃣ (@Steelersdepot) January 11, 2016
When you also take into consideration how dirty the game was on Saturday, to hear that spitting was going on shouldn’t come as a huge shock to anybody.
The Bengals and Steelers are just one of the many rivalries that encompasses the AFC North, and have made for some great matchups, but this would absolutely be taking things way too far.
“It can’t continue to be that way,” Foster continued. “The guys that are playing on both sides have got to try to figure something out to where it’s got to be about the game of football, and not the extracurricular stuff, not the extra-verbal stuff. It’s a lot of stuff that [has gone] on, now, I’d say, in the last four or five times we’ve played that can’t continue to go on.”
We’ll wait and see if the NFL decides to look into Foster’s accusation.
