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Eric Reid takes his social justice advocacy onto the playing field and it’s a bad look

There was a saying on the mean sandlots of suburbia when I was a kid. “Heads I win, tails you lose.”

You’d hear it invariably when the coin was flipped to determine who would receive the opening kickoff in a neighborhood game of football.

I bring it up because Eric Reid, erstwhile 49er, current Carolina Panther and staunch advocate of social justice put himself in a no-win situation Sunday when he got into a hissing match with Philadelphia’s Malcolm Jenkins during, of all things, the pregame coin flip.

#Eagles Malcolm Jenkins and #Panthers Eric Reid had confrontation after the coin toss before the game started.