The Panthers asked retired cornerback Charles Tillman to hang around practice this week, in part to teach their young corners how to do the “Peanut Punch.”
Little did they know people were going to start punching each other.
According to Bill Voth of Black and Blue Review, cornerback Daryl Worley was trying to knock the ball away from wide receiver Devin Funchess — but accidentally punched his teammate in the neck.
The two squared off and immediately went to the ground and wrestled for a bit, before coaches tried to intervene. When they got to their feet, Funchess still had ahold of Worley’s facemask.
“We were just working on our techniques,” Worley said. “But it’s football. People are going to go at it — testosterone — we’re all grown men at the end of the day.
“There’s no hard feelings. It’s behind us. We don’t hate each other or nothing.”
When asked his side, Funchess said: “You’re just trying to start a story that doesn’t need to be started. Nothing happened. It’s just football.”
Well, almost anyway. Tillman was able to force 44 fumbles in his career in part because he knew just when to punch, and where. And he knew that the neck of a teammate wasn’t that place.
