The Dallas Cowboys and the Los Angeles Chargers are set to face off in a highly anticipated Monday Night Football matchup but there appears to be some bad blood between these teams heading into the game. A prefight brawl has caught the attention of the NFL world.
Dallas and Los Angeles aren’t exactly thought of to be rivals. The two teams play in separate conferences and rarely play each other on a yearly basis.
That didn’t stop players from both teams from engaging in a pregame brawl, which was tweeted by The Athletic’s Jon Machota.
Just had a pregame fight between the Cowboys and Chargers pic.twitter.com/GOqRdYOmMH
— Jon Machota (@jonmachota) October 16, 2023
Officials quickly stepped in to stop things, but there were a ton of players on both teams that engaged in the melee.
Fans took to social media to offer their reaction to this wild incident.
So are these doing this now pregame since they can't be thrown out of the game?
— Tony Peric (@TonyPeric) October 16, 2023
Monday Night Raw doesn’t start for another twenty minutes!
— Jakenheimer (@jakenheimer5) October 16, 2023
Cowboys and Chargers pregame scuffle 😳
(via @jonmachota)pic.twitter.com/qzW79NhQYA
— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) October 16, 2023
A pre game FIGHT between the #Chargers and #Cowboys
Here we go 🍿
pic.twitter.com/88JRGlWeez— JPAFootball (@jasrifootball) October 16, 2023
Things are already getting heated between the Cowboys and Chargers ahead of MNF
(via @jonmachota) pic.twitter.com/6TsWlLcggL
— FOX Sports: NFL (@NFLonFOX) October 16, 2023
Chargers/Cowboys pregame fight 😳 (via @jonmachota)
— Overtime (@overtime) October 16, 2023
A closer look at the incident actually shows Chargers star running back Austin Ekeler in the middle of things, getting hit multiple times by Cowboys defender Dante Fowler Jr. which caused his helmet to fly off.
The ESPN #MNF broadcast begins with a good look at the Cowboys-Chargers pregame fight (led by Dante Fowler Jr. hitting Austin Ekeler in the face). pic.twitter.com/gzimuGQcsc
— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) October 17, 2023
Luckily it seems like Ekeler will be fine to play in the game, a game that he will be returning from an injury that he suffered in Week 1.
This is not the only time things got heated before a game in Week 6. The San Francisco 49ers and the Cleveland Browns also got into a pregame fight on Sunday before their matchup.
If this is a sign of things to come in the game, fans should certainly be in for a treat on Monday night.