Name: Puka Nacua May Faces Fines for Comments on NFL Officiating
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Description: Puka Nacua may face NFL fines after claiming on a live stream that refs seek TV fame. Carton discusses what could come of the controversy going forward.

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We got a big problem brewing, uh, in the NFL because, uh, Puka Nakua, as a lot of the younger generation sometimes says stupid things, does stupid things online. In this case, he was on a very popular streamers stream, a guy named Aiden Ross, who's one of the top streamers out there right now from a standpoint of views and, and followers and all that. And Pukaku being a young guy, he was attracted to that type of content. Similar to Cam Scatabo, uh with the New York Giants, which I'll get to in a second. Um, so anyway, so Pukaku is on this stream. And two things come out of it. Uh, let me do the first because the first is directly an NFL matter. But Pukka actually said, and not even tongue in cheek, he said it, uh, just kind of off-handed when he was asked about the officiating in, uh, in the NFL. And I want you to hear what Puka Nu has said first about the officiating in the NFL. So check this out. Go ahead. Yes, the refs are the worst because they're just some of the rules. And like they these guys wanna be these guys are lawyers and like they wanna be on TV too, bro like the game is you don't think he's he's texting his friends in the group chat like yo, you guys just saw me Sunday Night Football like that was no way like that wasn't PI like but I called it. I was like seriously they do that. I mean, so if, if it's hard to hear that, that's uh N3 on neon some people call him and Aiden Ross said the two guys on the. Right there. But Puka said, when it comes to officials, that officials are just human beings also. And uh it's his belief that before a big game on television, that the officials might reach out to their buddies on a little group chat and go, hey, I'm doing the Rams game tonight. Um, you'll see me on TV and we'll call a penalty to get FaceTime on television. Now, that's a pretty unique take on what I've been saying for a long time, that the officials sometimes carry favor to certain players or certain teams. I believe that through this entire Kansas City Chiefs run. But for an active player to come out publicly and essentially say that the officials make up calls, not to benefit one team or the other, which Which would be a real problem obviously if an active player said that he'd be fined immediately and maybe suspended for it, but for him to come out and say it's obvious to him on the field, which we're not, that guys make up calls for camera time. Yeah, I mean, I mean they have holes too, and it's undefeated. So, oh yeah, check, check me out in the 2nd quarter. I mean they got hoes too like I hate to say like like if I'm the NFL I, I, I gotta talk to Puka Nakua. I mean he's probably he's gonna get fined anyway to get fined 100%. I mean even like we'll get to the other part, but for just this part he's getting fined like again, and I don't think he meant anything by it. I wanna be clear, he's not suggesting that the refs have a favorite and pick a team. We know they do. Uh, or the NFL does, but he's saying, hey, listen, baby, you wanna see Daddy on TV tonight? Watch this. Watch this holding like, yeah, very easy. That's right. So that's the first thing. Oh, before you move on real fast about the Aiden Ross and whether or not it's smart, Antonio Brown's attempted murder case happened at an Aiden for Aiden Ross. Just to give an idea that he has been, uh, inflammatory in the past. Aidan Ross is now a multi-millionaire who, uh, does, uh, your, streams. The other kid sitting next to him is also a multi-millionaire. He does all these streams with other streamers. It's like an incestuous thing, but whatever. It's kids love it, uh, and usually it's very innocent, not all the time, which we'll get to in a second, uh, before I, I get to really objectionable thing from Pukunakua, the second thing that came out of this little interview was that. Puunakua claims that he's poor. He, he makes a million dollars a year without endorsements. I'm sure he's got some endorsements, right? He's in Los Angeles, but Puunaku has said that he has to rent a small one-bedroom apartment because he can't afford to live in LA on a million dollars a year. a million dollars a year nets out to be about $4500 let's say in LA, maybe even a little less, $4,000,000 and he's claiming he can't afford to get himself a house. He has a one-bedroom apartment because he doesn't make enough money to live in the state that he's employed. There's a lot of people I know that could make it on a million dollars in LA. I'd like to no one's listening to that. I'd like to try. OK, now, here's the thing that's gonna be a problem, and we may need two segments for this. Uh, Aiden Ross says to Pukunakua, I want you to, I want to give you a new, uh, touchdown celebration dance. All right. And the dance mimics the spinning of a dreidel and then warming your hands by a fire, and then kind of like a, The, the, I guess the best way to put it would be the actions of like a miserly or greedy person like that type of move. OK, I can show it to you just so you know what we're talking about. Guys, play the video. So here it is. He wants him to spin the dreidel, all right, kind of flex and then do the thing. Now I'm Jewish. I had no idea that that. in, I guess some areas of the world viewed as an anti-Semitic dance. I want to be very clear about this. I've never seen it before. I've never heard of it before. And if you would show that to me, you know, with no sound attached to it, I would have no idea that that's meant to mock the Jewish faith. I would not either. And I don't, and I still don't know for 100% factual if it is. I know they didn't. Cross is Jewish, so it seems odd that he would do it, but look, self-hating Jews exists out there, but it's being viewed across the globe right now as that maneuver is quite clearly meant to be anti-Semitic. I don't know that, you know, Puka is anti-Semitic either. I want to be clear about this. I'm not gonna just yell at the moon about something I don't know enough about, but if that many people view it. And immediately reacted to that dance as that's an anti-Semitic dance. What happens, because for, for a kid on a stream to do it, we could kind of mock it, laugh it off, no big deal. And there's no regulation in the stream world. You're allowed to be stupid, right? But now take it to the next step. If it is anti-Semitic, and again, I didn't know that it was, OK, but let's say it is for the sake of the conversation. If Pukkaakua scores a touchdown this week, all right. And does the dance, does he get suspended? Does he get fined? Is there an outcry against him from the Jewish community and those who are sensitive to the unfortunate rise in anti-Semitism in this country and globally? Does the NFL step in and say, unacceptable, that dance is forbidden from NFL games? That would be interesting to me.

Puka Nacua May Faces Fines for Comments on NFL Officiating

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