Lamar Jackson and his teammates were calmly dominating the Buffalo Bills when Ravens players approached the opposing fans’ stands. There, a young fan was “smacking” the helmets of Baltimore players in a way he found amusing.
However, when he hit Jackson harder, the quarterback reacted by shoving him. While other Ravens players passed by laughing at the fan and others heckling them, Jackson was clearly not pleased. He became visibly upset and argued with the fan for several seconds.
That type of interaction isn’t abnormal. It’s not necessarily a bad thing for rival players to provoke or get close to the other team’s fans, as long as it doesn’t cross into violence. Typically, these are strong words and rarely escalate to “fights” or shoves, like the incident with Lamar Jackson and the Bill