Philadelphia Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie left nothing to chance during the NFL Owners Meetings leading up to a vote on whether to ban the tush-push play, including making one of the more vulger and bizarre analogies imaginable.
According to a report from ESPN’s Seth Wickersham, inside the room before the vote was taken, the two-time Super Bowl-winning owner channeled his inner teenager during an impassioned defense of the play and a plea for his colleagues not to legislate it out of the sport.
“Toward the end of a speech that lasted close to an hour,” Wickersham reports for ESPN. “Lurie made an analogy, telling the room that regardless of whether the play was banned, it was a “win-win” for the Eagles, adding that it was “like a wet dream for a teenage boy” to create a play that was so successful that the only way for it to be stopped was for it to be banned.”
“After Lurie finished speaking, executive vice president of football operations Troy Vincent chastised the Eagles owner for the “wet dream” comment, specifically for saying it in front of women in the meeting.”
Ultimately, the league’s push to ban the tush-push fell two votes shy of passing, but not before some owners took their shots at Lurie following his speech that came just over three months after the Eagles’ second Super Bowl championship that included a touchdown scored on a Jalen Hurts tush-push against the Kansas City Chiefs.
“An hour had passed,” Wickersham points out. “When San Francisco 49ers owner Jed York asked Lurie “how much more s—” he needed to say.”
Turns out, that after a meeting filled with crude comments, criticism, and tension, it was Lurie and the Eagles who wound up laughing last and get to keep arguably the most effective play in head coach Nick Sirianni’s playbook ahead of a title defense.
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