Social media can be quite unforgiving.
Jack Del Rio is not a well-liked person this week following his recent comments about the Capitol Insurrection that took place in January 2021.
Because of those comments, during which he called the insurrection nothing more than a “dust-up,” social media is now bringing up the time he fought Chiefs legend, Otis Taylor. There was a strike going on in the NFL at the time, and Rio though Otis was a replacement player, so he fought him.
The incident occurred during the second day of picketing by Chiefs players.
Taylor, a talent scout for the Kansas City Chiefs at that time, filed an assault complaint against the then-linebacker while claiming in the report that Del Rio used profane language, grabbed him around the neck and they fell to the ground.
The report said the two scuffled briefly and Taylor received a bloody lip.
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Taylor was a former All-Pro and 11-year Chiefs wide receiver who had been retired from football for at least 12 years before that incident.
The strike would last three games into the season. Del Rio would spend that season and the next in Kansas City before moving on to play for the Cowboys in 1989.
The replacement players went 0-3 in the games they played for the Chiefs. The team finished the season a disappointing 4-11. Taylor would sue Del Rio and they would eventually settle out of court.
