The Pittsburgh Steelers should probably count themselves lucky. Linebacker Jason Worilds just did this, yet somehow didn't get kicked out of the game:
Worilds was assessed a 15-yard penalty, but that's it. NFL rules stipulate that any player who throws a punch must be ejected.
Worilds may have been saved by a technicality. Former NFL vice president of officiating Mike Pereira explains:
No ejection for an open hand blow to the face. That is specific in the rule. Closed fist blow is to be an ejection. That was open hand.
— Mike Pereira (@MikePereira) January 4, 2015
