Najee Harris pulled a Donovan McNabb on Sunday, which means he threw a worm burner directly into the ground, near Todd Pinkston’s feet.*

Just kidding!

He pulled a Donovan after the 16-16 tie with Detroit, telling media he didn’t know draws were a thing.

From Brooke Pryor at ESPN:

“I didn’t even know you could tie in the NFL,” Harris said. “In my mind, I was sitting on the bench saying, ‘I’ve got another quarter to go.’ But someone came to me and said, ‘That’s it.’ I’ve never had a tie in my life before.”

Harris wasn’t the only one who wasn’t expecting the abrupt, unsatisfying ending.

“It’s nuts,” Lions second-year running back Godwin Igwebuike said. “I’m back there like, ‘Yo, how many overtimes can we do?’ And they’re like, ‘Three’ … I hear, ‘Two, one,’ and we were like, ‘Yo, whatever’s going on, we’re about to just put our all into it.'”

Tie games are very un-American, for whatever reason. The four-for-four fans always seems to dislike the tie, because it’s a soccer thing, i.e. “communist” or something along those lines.


People will say stuff like “how does Harris not know about ties?“, but you can throw the guy a bone because in college they don’t have ties. You keep playing overtime until somebody wins, as Penn State fans are, unfortunately, well aware. Harris was on Alabama teams that mostly hammered everybody, so tie scores for him were a rarity in general.

BTW, speaking of Donovan, I was working on a grindcore album featuring his likeness. The project is currently in limbo, but I may revive it some day. We called it “Wormburner” –

 

*all Donovan jokes are tongue-in-cheek; Donovan is the greatest quarterback in Eagles history