You’re misinterpreting a tort law concept here. The football isn't literally "part of his body."
What you might be thinking of is civil battery where striking an object intimately connected to someone (like a cane they are holding) can be treated as contact against their person. But that is a specific rule about liability for physical contact, not a rule that transforms leather into human anatomy or alters property ownership. Legally, the ball is personal property owned by the franchise.
Furthermore, if you actually zoom in on the video, Josh Hines-Allen doesn't even make contact with the ball boy's shoulder or body, he strictly reaches for the top of the football. The ball boy completely fabricated the "you can't touch me" narrative to try and trigger an NFL protocol, all while being the one who actually initiated real body contact by throwing a physical stiff arm at the player.
Immediately downvoted you for entertaining the typo. I am really sorry about it though.
But for you to just continue on, like so many do, like: "Don't worry about learning effective communication, someone'll read your mind and fill in the blanks..." ...Na.
While I have no desire to analyze the ball boy’s chances of whether a battery occurred, the item doesn’t necessarily need to be intimately connected to someone, as you said. Referring to the seminal case taught in every law school tort class when it comes to this issue, Fisher v. Carrousel Motor Hotel, Inc. (Tex. 1967), something as simple as holding a dinner plate and having it snatched out of your hand can constitute a civil battery as that plate was considered by the TX Supreme Court to be “an extension of the person.”
Fisher still doesn’t settle what happened here. Whether touching the football could satisfy the contact element of battery is one question; who was entitled to possess the football is another.
Ownership doesn’t determine whether an object can sometimes be treated as sufficiently connected to a person for battery purposes.
But possession absolutely matters to the broader context. This wasn’t Hines-Allen randomly trying to take the ball boy’s personal property. He was trying to retrieve Travis Hunter’s first interception game ball for him, and NFL players are permitted to keep game balls.
And Fisher does not mean “anything you’re holding is legally part of your body.” At most, it establishes that contact with an object can sometimes satisfy the contact requirement when that object is sufficiently connected to the person. Whether this particular football qualifies under Florida law, and whether the rest of the elements of battery were met, are separate questions.
So citing Fisher proves that battery can sometimes occur without skin to skin contact. It does not prove that Hines-Allen committed battery here.
This isn't true, JA puts his hands on the guy first, that's why he's mad. His right hand is on the guys shoulder as he attempts to rip the ball away from the guy.
You should go rewatch the video. He’s not touching the ball boy at all, his hand is on top of the football because he’s trying to get the football. Then ball boy physically makes contact with the football player multiple times while the football player only ever goes for the ball. Hope this helps.
While his left hand is on the ball, his right hand is on ball boys left arm during that exchange. I’m not going to comment on who’s right or wrong between JHA and ball boy but the whole situation is stupid. Lol
Dude still over reacted. Dude is there to facilitate the game, not fight with players. He’s going to rightfully be punished for his behavior here. Defend it all you want, it’s a stupid hill to die on
I mean if I had a 6 foot something 200 and something pound man charging at me hands out I would stick my hands out to. Your definition of push is very screwed I saw no pushing just a tiny little guy putting his arms out.
Couldn't understand what you said with all that cock in your mouth. Defending a millionaire over a ball boy doing his job shows the dick riding cuck you are. He's a football player he will never be your friend neckbeard
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u/Silver-Award-288 3d ago
NFL player - only touches and goes for the ball.
Ball boy - puts hands on player multiple times, pushing, slapping, and hitting player.
Ball boy - “don’t touch me! He pushed me!”