Vikings’ Rival Brags about a Wet Dream
The Philadelphia Eagles’ so-called “wet dream” won’t end anytime soon.
Philadelphia Eagles owner Jeff Lurie claimed his strategy compares to a never-ending wet dream. The Vikings could see more tush-pushing in Week 7.
Eagles owner Jeff Lurie described his team’s nearly indefensible play, the Tush Push, as a wet dream, and the NFL voted this week to keep it alive.
The measure needed two more votes for a full ban that didn’t arrive.
The Tush Push Lives
ESPN’s Adam Schefter tweeted Wednesday, “A ban of the Push Tush play that the Philadelphia Eagles popularized did not receive enough votes at today’s league meeting in Minneapolis. The play remains alive. There will be more tush pushes this season. Final vote on the proposed ban of the Tush Push, per sources: 22-10. At least 24 votes were needed to ban The Tush Push.”
The Vikings voted to ban the Tush Push.
These teams kept it alive:
- Baltimore Ravens
- Cleveland Browns
- Detroit Lions
- Jacksonville Jaguars
- Miami Dolphins
- New England Patriots
- New Orleans Saints
- New York Jets
- Philadelphia Eagles
- Tennessee Titans
The play is usually reserved for short-yardage situations, as Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts snaps the ball, keeps it himself, and his teammates shove him over the goal line or the 1st Down marker. Tush Push opponents argue that the maneuver causes too many injuries and that it isn’t really a football play.
Eagles Owner Says the Play Is Like His Own Little Wet Dream
Eagles owner Jeff Lurie told owners before the vote that the Tush Push was a win-win for his team, even if it would be banned Wednesday. He said the play is “like a wet dream for a teenage boy.”
In April, Lurie defended the play without wet dream analogies: “I think for everybody, including myself especially — health and safety is the most important thing when evaluating any play. We’ve been very open to whatever data exists on the Tush Push, there’s just been no data that shows that it isn’t a very, very safe play. If it weren’t, we wouldn’t be pushing the Tush Push.”
“It’s a play that’s available to every other team in the league. I don’t ever remember a play being banned because a single team or a few teams were running it effectively. It’s part of what I personally and I think most of us love about football, is that it’s a chess match. Let the chess match play out, and if for any reason it does get banned, we will try to be the very best at short-yardage situations, and we’ve got a lot of ideas there.”
In addition to being a wet dream for Lurie, he told fellow owners Wednesday that the Tush Push is the safest play in history, raising eyebrows because, well, that’s false.
Details on the Vote
Competition committee chairman Rich McKay outlined the vote: “Took all the necessary vote counts and realized that was not a rule that was ready to be passed. I’d say it’s not disappointing for me, for our committee, for the committees that did the work because it takes 24 votes to pass anything. We don’t set a low bar. This is not a majority vote, which we’d pass most anything.”
“This one was unanimously proposed by the competition committee, this was unanimously proposed by the player health and safety committee and by the owner health and safety committee. So there was a lot of support for it. A lot of discussion about it. Still takes 24 votes. In this case the votes were not there so the rule will stay as it is.”
Another Vikings rival, the Green Bay Packers, actually led the charge to ban the Eagles’ wet dream.
McKay added, “In our mind, as I say in those various committees, we just felt like this was a rule that was on the books forever. We took it out because of officiating downfield. Other things have shown up, let’s put the rule back to the way it was. We didn’t get the 24 votes.”
“Maybe Next Year”
For some, the tight vote — it took place in Minneapolis, believe it or not — is a signal. Proponents of the ban only needed two more votes, and those could be gettable next year.
The Eagles lived to see another day in 2025, but 2026 could be different, at least per recent momentum.
Eagles Gloat over Tush Push Continuation
Of course, because Philadelphia is the world champion this offseason, it is riding on cloud nine, equipped with another Lombardi trophy and its favorite play intact.
The Eagles’ social media tweeted this:
It also posted a flurry of memes mocking the rest of the league and released a 26-minute video montage of successful Tush Pushes.
Lurie’s wet dream lives on.
The Vikings take on the Eagles at U.S. Bank Stadium in 151 days.
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