Poor Chris Conte. Not only did his football team lose last night, but he’s going to wake up this morning and realize he’s a viral video.
The Buccaneers safety was on the receiving end of a vicious stiff-arm from Steelers tight end Vance McDonald, as McDonald destroyed him on the way to a 75-yard touchdown.
And when McDonald was asked about it after the game, he sounded like Conan the Barbarian describing the best thing in life — “To crush your enemies. See them driven before you. And to hear the lamentations of their women.”
“Punish him. Inflict as much force on him as possible. That’s the first thing I think of,” McDonald (not Conan) said, via Jeremy Fowler of ESPN.com. “I love contact. If a DB or a safety wants to take me up high, God bless him. Because I’m going to hit him hard. That’s my goal. A lot of times I don’t think about using the stiff-arm, but he was slow-playing it so much. He gave me a big target.”
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McDonald outweighs Conte by 64 pounds, making it a bit easier to bowl him over and ramble for the touchdown. But more important for the Steelers than a meme-worthy play was the fact they finally got off to a quicker start, as it was their first touchdown in the first quarter this season.