When officials attack: Umpire lowers the boom on Kenneth Darby
By MJD
Sometimes an official, through no fault of his own, will get caught up in the middle of a play and inadvertently make contact with a player. Sometimes an official just feels like making a tackle. Sometimes an official is concerned that a player has been programmed to kill the Queen of England and is forced to take matters into his own hands.
Whatever happened yesterday, here are some terrific action shots of NFL umpire Garth DeFelice taking out Rams running back Kenneth Darby yesterday. Getty Images photographer Dilip Vishwanat was johnny-on-the-spot yesterday, and the world thanks for him for it.
And here's video of the incident over at BallHype and seven other sports blogs.
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I laughed when I saw the highlight footage of this, but this picture is even better...
I watched that game because I am a 49er fan (since birth pretty much)...the hit the ref put on Darby has been one of only a handful of good things to come from a 49er game in about 5 years.
Ref takes out RB
