SoulfishHawk":1l0jdk74 said:
Plenty of teams do the same thing.
SoulfishHawk":1l0jdk74 said:
If it's another team, they probably just say "that's just a team fighting til the end"
Not really.
Greg Schiano did it a couple times back in 2012 when he was coaching the Bucs and everyone still thinks he's a total dirtbag for it.
The only other time I remember a non-Hawks team doing it was the Rams doing it once last year, and like Schiano, they got a ton of crap for it in national media too.
The Hawks, I think, are hit particularly hard reputationally for it, as they've now done it four times in big games that a lot of people have seen, and have even started extra-curricular fighting AFTER doing in two of those.
People can try to spin it away, but that's a story Hawks fans are gonna have to tell each other, because there's absolutely zero chance of anyone else affiliated or unaffiliated listening to it. It's just an incredibly bad look.