Just last year, then-reigning NFL MVP Patrick Mahomes gave the Chiefs front office a scare when video circulated on social media of the star quarterback playing pickup basketball games. After those videos went viral, Mahomes was effectively banned from playing basketball.
Now it’s Lamar Jackson’s turn to expect a call from the Ravens.
Video hit Twitter and Instagram on Sunday of the 2019 MVP playing beach football (already a bad idea) and eventually taking a fall over a jet ski.
The video was somewhat obscured in the final moments, but we can see Jackson take off scrambling and trying to evade a tackle just before tumbling over a jet ski just off the beach.
Yeah, uh, that’s the last thing the Ravens want to see — even if he was fine.
And while Mahomes faced criticism for playing basketball, beach football might have been even more reckless. The NFL used to hold a rookie beach football game as part of the Pro Bowl festivities, and that changed when former Patriots running back Robert Edwards suffered a devastating knee injury.
With all the uneven surfaces, no good could come from playing a pickup beach football game. There didn’t even need to be a water ski parked nearby for that to be an awful idea.
