Football player tackles own teammate on a punt return, lol.

[GoRaps420]

We've all seen soccer or hockey players accidentally score an own goal, usually on a fluke deflection or errant clearing pass. Basketball players sometimes get unlucky too and make a basket for the wrong team. Heck, Jim Marshall of the Minnesota Vikings once returned a fumble into the wrong end zone. But this I've never seen.

In a semi-pro football game last week, Mauriece McIver of the Las Vegas Cobras made a clean, open-field tackle on a punt returner. The only problem? The guy he tackled was on his own team. You may see players in the same uniform run into each other or accidentally trip someone or inadvertently bring someone down in a scrum, but I can't remember ever seeing a guy seek out his teammate and bring him down like McIver did.

In his defense, he wasn't helped by the fact that the two teams were each wearing dark jerseys. Still, that doesn't excuse McIver from not remembering that he was supposed to be blocking, not tackling. Even if the teams were wearing the exact same things, players on the return team still should know not to tackle anyone, least of all the guy with the ball.

Video Link:
http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shu...urn=nfl,199943

lmao, dude musta had a brain fart.

[Fresh27]

haha what the hell, nice tackle though. a few years ago i did a similar thing where i was running back to hit a guy heading towards the punt returner and as he was just about to close in on the returner he saw me and juked so i ended up jacking up the punt returner.....i was kinda happy coz it was a pretty good hit