“Like a wet dream for a teenage boy”

The NFL owners deliberated for several hours over whether or not to ban the controversial Tush Push. During the debate, it was looking like the league would ban the play once and for all.

This obviously didn’t sit well with the Philadelphia Eagles owner. It was Jeff Lurie’s team, after all, who popularized the move in 2022 and mastered it, with a 92% success rate in the 2024 season when they won the Super Bowl. With a ban looking imminent, Lurie made some strange comments in an effort to save it.

Jeff Lurie’s odd comparison of the Tush Push – What did he say?

With the proposal to ban the play (brought by the Green Bay Packers) originally scheduled to be deliberated last month, things got heated in the meeting on Wednesday.

In the general meeting, all the NFL teams’ owners were in attendance along with some team and league executives. ESPN reported that Lurie made a passionate speech in favor of the Tush Push during that portion of the meeting, which lasted nearly an hour.

As he was concluding the speech, he made an odd comparison, telling the room that it was “like a wet dream for a teenage boy” for his team to have mastered a play so well that the only way other teams could beat it was to get rid of it. He also went off on NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and vice president of football operations Troy Vincent for advocating for the ban.

When Lurie was done with his speech, San Francisco 49ers owner Jed York asked him “how much more s**t” he had to say. Vincent condemned Lurie for his “wet dream” comment, and especially in the presence of the women in the meeting.

The meeting moved to a “privileged session”, which was attended by the owners and just the top league exectutives. The final vote saw just 22 teams voting to ban the Tush Push, while 10 voted to keep it. The NFL needed 24 teams (75%) to vote for the ban in order for it to pass. So with the Tush Push here to stay, either Lurie’s impassioned speech worked, or he just embarrassed himself with an unwarranted rant.