Dolphins’ Return to Meadowlands Recalls Tripping Incident at LinesMaker

Dolphins’ Return to Meadowlands Recalls Tripping Incident

Let’s play a game of name recog­ni­tion. We’ll give you a name, and you try to remem­ber who it is.

Ready? Here we go. Sal Alosi.

3 … 2 … 1 …

Time’s up. If you’re a stu­dent of recent NFL his­tory, you’ll remem­ber Alosi as the for­mer New York Jets strength and con­di­tion­ing coach who tripped Dol­phins cor­ner­back Nolan Car­roll dur­ing a punt return last Decem­ber. Alosi’s bone­headed deed was caught by CBS cam­eras, and he was quickly sus­pended and later fired by the Jets.

The whole inci­dent was pretty weird and kind of sad, espe­cially the next day when a shaken Alosi was hung out to dry by the fran­chise dur­ing a lonely mea culpa press conference.

While the Dol­phins return to the Mead­ow­lands on Mon­day night for the first time since “Trip­gate,” Alosi will be back at work, serv­ing as the strength and con­di­tion­ing coach for Bryant Uni­ver­sity, a small pri­vate school out­side Prov­i­dence, R.I.

When told about Alosi’s new gig, Car­roll made it clear he held no grudges.

“I’m happy for him,” Car­roll said, accord­ing to the South Florida Sun Sen­tinel. “He got another shot at it, which is good. You start at the bot­tom and work your way back up. That’s what he’s doing.”

Alosi called Car­roll per­son­ally in the hours after the famous inci­dent to apol­o­gize. Car­roll said he could tell Alosi was sin­cere in his regret.

“To tell you the truth, it hasn’t even crossed my mind since the inci­dent hap­pened,” Car­roll said. “I put it in the back of my head after the week that it hap­pened. Obvi­ously, there were some bad inten­tions, but I for­give him at the end of the day, regard­less of the situation.”

That’s good, since Car­roll and the Dol­phins need all the focus they can get right now. The fran­chise hasn’t won a game since “Tripgate”.

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