Bullying in the NFL is pretty light, or at least that’s how it seems in the interaction that players have publicly when they talk about their colleagues and members of other teams. And that’s just how the tone was set from the Dallas Cowboys to ‘tease’ a prominent rival, a member of the championship team in last year’s Super Bowl, the Philadelphia Eagles.
The Eagles will be the Cowboys’ opponents in the first game of the 2025 season, scheduled for September 4 and to be played at Lincoln Financial Field.
It was during the NFL schedule reveal broadcast that three prominent Cowboys players, Micah Parsons, Osa Odighizuwa and CeeDee Lamb, began to talk about Quinyon Mitchell as soon as they realized that they were going to face the champions in Week 1.
Parsons and Lamb’s mockery
The Eagles cornerback is in his second year, but has become a reality, doing a great job against opposing teams’ receivers, with numbers such as 12 pass deflections and 46 tackles (37 solo) that have given him the benefit of having a ‘nickname’ for that reason, a nickname that Parsons and Lamb mocked live.
Parsons: “Sorry Quinyonamo Bay doesn’t last here, buddy, that my… is dead”.
Odighizuwa: “What’s that?”
Lamb: “Stop the salary cap! I’ve never been limited.”
Parsons: “That’s what they call Quinyon Mitchell: ‘Quinyonamo Bay’, that’s where they said you were going”.
Why is Quinyon Mitchell’s nickname “Clamp Clampington”?
The Guantanamo naval base on the island of Cuba was established in 1898 during the US war against Spain, but it was not so relevant until the advent and consolidation of the Cuban Revolution and the breaking off of relations between the US and Cuba, so it is considered illegal and undoubtedly a hostile territory for the enemy that falls into the military prison inside. “Quinyonamo Bay”, Mitchell’s nickname is a play on words with the name of this prison on the island.
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