Vikings left tackle Matt Kalil has apologized for flicking the hat off a heckling fan last Sunday.
But the guy should probably be glad Ryan Kalil didn’t give more wedgies growing up.
The Panthers center came to the defense of his little brother, saying his treatment of Matt when they were growing up may have contributed to Sunday’s outburst.
“I was a little disappointed,” Ryan Kalil said, via John Shipley of the St. Paul Pioneer Press. “I would have liked him to go with the, ‘You spilled something on your shirt’ move, and then flick him on the chin. . . .
“It’s probably my fault for picking on him when he was little. That hat thing was a go-to move.”
Ryan said his brother was actually on the phone with their father when the incident occurred, saying the heckler was saying “some pretty ugly stuff.”
Of course, there’s plenty being said about Matt Kalil in Minnesota, where many feel he’s not living up to his first-round status.
And for that, a bunch of Vikings fans probably wish Ryan would have given his brother a few more noogies when they were growing up.