NFL players and coaches are used to hearing negative remarks from fans during games, but Houston Texans head coach Bill O’Brien was clearly in no mood for it when his team was getting blown out by the Denver Broncos earlier this year.
On Friday, TMZ released a video that showed O’Brien going absolutely ballistic on a fan at NRG Stadium as he was heading to the locker room at halftime of Houston’s Week 14 game against the Broncos. With the Texans trailing 31-3 at the time, O’Brien did not appreciate hearing a big “you suck!” from the stands. Beware that the footage contains inappropriate language:
O’Brien continued to scream as he was well into the tunnel, and you could hear someone trying to calm him down just before the coach yelled, “Go the f– home, motherf—er!” The Texans ended up losing the game 38-24.
Shortly after the video emerged, O’Brien opened his press conference for apologizing for the language he used.
Bill O'Brien opens his press conference with:
"I used inappropriate language and I just wanted to apologize for that."
Then, back to a typical presser with questions about Will Fuller's health.
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That is about as animated as you will ever see an NFL coach toward a fan. We recently saw Baker Mayfield get into it with a fan near the tunnel, but O’Brien’s tirade put that to shame.
