San Diego Union-Tribune

OFF THE WALL

We just couldn’t let this stuff go …

- COMPILED BY BOYCE GARRISON FROM U-T NEWS SERVICES, ONLINE REPORTS

It can be over in a flash

The most lasting images from Dwayne

Haskins’ two-year tenure with the Washington

Football Team aren’t of the former first-round pick doing anything on the field, but of him partying without a mask in violation of NFL’s coronaviru­s protocols one week before his release on

Monday and taking a selfie with a fan at

FedEx Field last

November, writes

Scott Allen of The ire Washington of Haskins his coach, snapped Post. in the the final selfie, minute which of his drew first the career victory. Thinking the game was over, he quarterbac­k missed the final Case kneeldown, Keenum executed which backup in his place. The incident seemed like a potential learning experience, and one that everyone might well look back on and laugh at after

Haskins establishe­d himself as the franchise’s answer at quarterbac­k. In hindsight, it was more of a warning sign.

“It was a red flag for the city and for the

Verduzco, football team,” 25-year-old Jaime Lopezwho was attending his first NFL game and requested the selfie with Haskins seen ’round the NFL, said in a phone interview

Thursday. “Ideally, that moment and the reaction would have been an epiphany for him, like, ‘You know what, I need to give 120 percent to this team.’ “

At least one person joked that the simple request prompted Haskins’s demise.

A few hours after the incident last November, Lopez-Verduzco defended Haskins, praising him for sharing “such a special moment with the people who support him.” Lopez

Verduzco says he is more a fan of individual players than teams and will continue to follow

Haskins, who became a free agent after going unclaimed on waivers this week, wherever he ends up next.

Trivia question

Happy birthday to former Dallas Cowboys running back Calvin Hill, who turns 74 today.

Where did Hill go to college?

He said it

From former Houston Cougars receiver

Torrin Polk, on then head coach John Jenk

ins: “He treats us like men. He lets us wear

earrings.”

Trivia answer

Hill attended Yale, so it’s no surprise that son Grant Hill got into Duke.

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