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TEMPE, Ariz. -- Throughout Monday, a video of a fight between Arizona Cardinals and San Francisco fans in the upper deck of University of Phoenix Stadium during Sunday’s game went viral. When Cardinals defensive lineman Darnell Dockett saw it, the first thing he did was offer tickets to a man in the video wearing his No. 90 jersey. The tweet said in part: "Who was the guy in the Dockett jersey in the brawl at the cardinals game??? Contact me I have some tickets for you." The initial reaction throughout the twittersphere was outrage. Tweeters thought Dockett was rewarding a man with tickets for fighting. But what they didn’t realize was that the man in the Dockett jersey was trying to break up the fight. When the brawl, which started in seats about five rows up, ended going down the stairs leading to the concourse, the man in the Dockett jersey can be seen trying to pull brawlers away from each other and then he stops a fan from choking a security guard by throwing a punch or two. That’s why Dockett was rewarding him. Cardinals coach Bruce Arians was asked about Dockett wanting to give the tickets away but without the context that the fan was helping break up the fight, not instigate it. "Beautiful," Arians said with a smirk. "I love it."
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