Of course, Cody Barton said, he didn’t mean to throw that football at his coach’s face.
But he did, and now his coach won’t let the rookie linebacker forget it.
“He’s been penalized severely,” Seahawks coach Pete Carroll said playfully Wednesday. “He has to live with that. I’m hanging it over him, too.”
Barton made headlines earlier this week when, during the final moments of warmups before Sunday’s Seahawks-Saints game, he toss a ball toward another person some 10 yards away. Just then, Carroll ran up from behind two Seahawks players and right into the path of the ball — getting hit on the left side of his nose.