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Browns Safety Flagged for Chucking George Pickens's Mouthguard on Snowy Field

Stephen Douglas

Grant Delpit snatches George Pickens’s mouthguard during the Browns - Steelers game.
Grant Delpit snatches George Pickens’s mouthguard during the Browns - Steelers game. / @rate_the_refs
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The Cleveland Browns and Pittsburgh Steelers played a snowy game on Thursday Night Football to start Week 12. Even without the weather, it was an old school AFC North matchup between two longtime rivals, so it's no surprise that tempers flared every now and again.

One of those incidents took place in the fourth quarter as the Steelers were trying to get back into the game. Trailing 18-6, Pittsburgh lost two yards on first-and-goal, but a flag was thrown. The call was unsportsmanlike conduct. What actually happened was kind of funny.

Replays showed Browns safety Grant Delpit grabbing the mouthpiece of Steelers wide receiver George Pickens. Delpit snatched the mouthpiece and threw it onto the snowy ground. It was as harmless of a unsportsmanlike penalty as you'll ever see—which made it even more amusing for the official to announce that if he did it again he was going to be ejected.

Pittsburgh scored on the very next play.

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Stephen Douglas is a Senior Writer on the Breaking & Trending News Team at Sports Illustrated. He has been in journalism and media since 2008, and now casts a wide net with coverage across all sports. Stephen spent more than a decade with The Big Lead and has previously written for Uproxx and The Sporting News. He has three children, two degrees and one now unverified Twitter account.

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