J.J. Watt pays out fan's parlay after blown call

TEMPE, Ariz. -- Another day, different generous enactment by J.J. Watt.

On Monday morning, a instrumentality tweeted a screenshot of a failed stake to Watt, showing him however the determination by referee Clete Blakeman to stroke dormant a play successful which Watt was astir to instrumentality a fumble unimpeded for a touchdown would person paid him $1,000 arsenic portion of a three-leg parlay.

"they blew that play dormant but you would've walked successful the endzone...should've won $1000, wanna assistance a brotha out?" the accompanying tweet work with 2 tears of joyousness emojis.

The man's parlay included the Arizona Cardinals winning the moneyline, a James Conner touchdown and a antiaircraft touchdown. He deed connected the archetypal two.

About a half-hour later, Watt responded, offering to nonstop the antheral the grand.

The play successful question happened precocious successful the 2nd quarter. Cardinals linebacker Myjai Sanders sacked Los Angeles Rams backmost John Wolford, knocking the shot loose. Watt recovered the fumble and had unfastened tract betwixt him and the extremity portion but Blakeman blew the play dormant arsenic an incomplete pass. A reappraisal overturned the play to a fumble, giving the Cardinals possession astatine the Rams' 30, which they turned into a touchdown.

"He conscionable said helium screwed up," Watt said of Blakeman. "He apologized and said there's thing helium tin bash but accidental sorry."

In the 3rd 4th of the Cardinals' 27-17 win, Watt was flagged for a hold of crippled punishment aft spiking the shot pursuing different play being called dead. He picked up a escaped shot aft 1 of Wolford's passes was batted down and started taking disconnected with it but Blakeman ruled the play an incomplete walk again.

"I don't cognize what happened connected the 2nd 1 but I was conscionable frustrated with the full concern and determination were a fewer holding calls that helium wasn't calling," Watt said. "So, I mean, I similar Clete. Clete's a bully referee.

"But evidently [Sunday] was a frustrating 1 from that standpoint."

On Monday, Cardinals manager Kliff Kingsbury said determination was thing the squad could bash aft the information astir Blakeman's call.

"No, it's done," helium said. "I deliberation Watt got to accidental what you wanted to accidental connected the field, which is, you got to beryllium cautious determination but Clete took attraction of him connected that and lone gave him a hold of crippled and not the large one. So benignant of worked some ways."