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Texas Star Begs Forgiveness After Vulgar Celebration In Front Of POTUS

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Texas pass rusher Colin Simmons turned Tennessee’s backfield into his personal playground, then had to ask forgiveness after a crude sack celebration drew a flag in front of President Donald Trump.

The 20-year-old Longhorns junior piled up five sacks as Texas escaped Tennessee 20-17 and improved to 4-0, but one hit on Volunteers quarterback Faizon Brandon became the play everyone was talking about.

Simmons had just dropped Brandon on third down, setting up what should have been fourth-and-29, when he stood over him and acted out urinating on the field.

A yellow flag came out immediately, and the Neyland Stadium referee announced the unsportsmanlike conduct call as “simulating using the restroom.”

ABC’s Kirk Herbstreit branded it an “absolutely idiotic move,” while Chris Fowler added, “It doesn’t get much more vulgar, either.”

Afterward, Simmons told reporters he had let the moment overtake him.

“I also do want to say I apologize for the celebration,” he said. “I was definitely in that mode, feeling myself. But, you know, it happens. Charge it to the game.”

His apology continued on X, where he thanked God and asked forgiveness.

“All Glory To God,” he wrote. “Thank you for listening to my prayers and forgive me for my actions.”

Trump was at Neyland Stadium for the SEC matchup after arriving with a pregame Air Force One flyover.

More than 100,000 fans roared when the stadium announcer introduced him before kickoff.

“Ladies and gentlemen, the 45th and 47th President of the United States — Donald J. Trump,” the announcer said.

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Trump answered with a fist pump before watching from a suite with Tennessee Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Bill Hagerty (R-TN).

Texas coach Steve Sarkisian did not bury Simmons over the penalty, but he made clear the Longhorns could not keep giving away yards for that kind of stunt.

“Can’t happen. That’s a bad football play,” Sarkisian said after the game. “We had harped and talked about this game about not getting emotional with the crowd and that was an emotional play.”

Texas pulled Simmons, dealt with the mistake and then sent him back in.

“I mean, at that point, I’m not going to give the guy the death penalty over an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty, we got to fix it though,” Sarkisian added.

The coach said the Longhorns had already spent halftime talking through how they needed to handle themselves after big plays.

“A couple others that were close too. We had a real talk about it at halftime about how we needed to play in the second half, we needed to celebrate with one another,” Sarkisian said.

Sarkisian said Texas would return to the issue Monday, then connected Simmons’ penalty to a culture that rewards players and commentators for chasing attention.

“Unfortunately, in our society right now, we live in the ‘look at me’ society,” Sarkisian said. “All of you guys have your Twitter accounts, and as fast as you can type something because you want everyone to look at your account, and you get clicks. Well, that’s the world that we live in.”

Sarkisian said the answer was to make celebrations about teammates instead of one player demanding the spotlight.

“It’s about the team and focus on the team, and not so much ‘look at me.’ So, we’ll try to improve upon that, but five sacks was pretty cool today too,” Sarkisian said.

Trump’s visit to Neyland Stadium added to a year of major sports appearances that also included the College Football Playoff National Championship in January, Game 3 of the NBA Finals in June, the FIFA World Cup final in July and the IndyCar Freedom 250 Grand Prix in August.

On Sunday, Trump was at Medinah Country Club in Chicago for the Presidents Cup, where he spoke briefly before the final day of play. He joked that the golf crowd did not come to hear him talk.

“Brian said could you make a short speech and I said, ‘No, I don’t have the courage to make a speech. These people want to see golf. They don’t want to hear speeches,’” Trump said about 30 minutes before the first match teed off.

Trump also took a swing at the “fake news media,” predicting they would claim the crowd had treated him poorly.

“I will say this, our country is doing great, better than ever before. And now I want to watch the greatest players in the world go at it today and play your hearts out. It should be a very impressive day of golf,” Trump said.

The president later handed the Presidents Cup trophy to the Americans after the U.S. won nine of 12 singles matches Sunday and locked up its 11th consecutive victory in the biennial global match-play event.

U.S. captain Brandt Snedeker gave Trump some credit for the comeback while the president watched with PGA Tour CEO Brian Rolapp.

“As he told me this morning, he brought some juice for us today and I told him if it turned out our way, I was going to give him credit,” Snedeker said. “He definitely brought the juice. He deserves a lot of the credit for what happened today.”

Trump l with every U.S. golfer and vice-captain before giving Snedeker the trophy.

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