野马主教练Sean Payton把记者的铅笔误认成香烟：发布会上当场道歉 片段在X疯传
11月8日（周日），在位于美国北卡罗来纳州梅克伦堡县夏洛特市的Bank of America Stadium，丹佛野马客场以26比21击败卡罗来纳黑豹。赛后发布会上，野马主教练Sean Payton把台下一名记者嘴里叼着的铅笔误认成香烟，当场出言制止，随即发现认错、连声道歉。这一幕被拍下后当天在X等社交平台流传，Bleacher Report等体育媒体以「疯传片段」跟进报道。
据Larry Brown Sports报道，Payton在发布会上对那名记者说：「这里能不能不要吸烟？拜托了。」话一出口他就看清了：「哦，你没在吸烟，你叼的是支铅笔。对不起，我以为你在吸烟。我刚才是闪回了，心想『谁在抽烟？』对不起。」据Sportskeeda报道，那名记者当时正咬着一支铅笔，身份未见公开；Payton意识到认错后显得有些不好意思，随后也笑了出来。
片段由NFL记者Ari Meirov在X发布后迅速扩散。球迷留言两极：有人打趣说他「卡在了1980年」，有人说「显然是嗅觉不行」，也有人写道：「他对香烟划了条线，真有意思。」Bleacher Report在报道结尾调侃：有时候雪茄只是雪茄，有时候，它只是一支铅笔。
这场比赛本身也打得胶着。据本站当日赛报，野马靠终场前的剥球擒杀锁定胜局，拿下五连胜，并创下连续16场赢下一分差球的NFL纪录，战绩升至7胜2负。Payton的球队本场在第四节再度完成反扑，发布会上的这段小插曲，成了这场险胜之后最出圈的画面。
关联：野马26比21险胜黑豹迎五连胜：连续16场赢下一分差球创NFL纪录 终场前剥球擒杀锁定胜局
Broncos Coach Sean Payton Mistakes a Reporter's Pencil for a Cigarette at His Press Conference and Apologizes as the Clip Goes Viral
On Sunday, November 8, at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, the Denver Broncos beat the Carolina Panthers 26-21 on the road. At the postgame press conference, Broncos head coach Sean Payton mistook a pencil in a reporter's mouth for a cigarette, called it out on the spot, then realized his mistake and apologized repeatedly. The moment was captured on video, spread across X and other social platforms the same day, and was picked up by Bleacher Report and other sports outlets as a trending clip.
According to Larry Brown Sports, Payton told the reporter: "Can we not smoke in here, please?" He caught himself almost immediately: "Oh, you're not smoking. You've got a pencil. I'm sorry. I thought you were smoking. I just had a flashback thinking, 'Who's smoking a cigarette?' I'm sorry." Sportskeeda reported that the reporter, who has not been publicly identified, was chewing on a pencil; Payton looked embarrassed once he realized the error and was able to laugh about it.
The clip spread quickly after NFL reporter Ari Meirov posted it on X. Fan reactions were mixed: one joked that Payton was "stuck in 1980," another wrote "Clearly no sense of smell," and a third posted, "Draws the line at cigarettes. Fascinating." Bleacher Report closed its story with a quip: sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, and sometimes it is a pencil.
The game itself was close throughout. According to GSM's game report earlier in the day, Denver sealed the win with a late strip sack, earning a fifth straight victory, an NFL-record 16th straight win in a one-score game, and a 7-2 record. After another fourth-quarter comeback by Payton's team, the brief press-conference mix-up became the most shared image of the narrow win.
来源：Larry Brown Sports
发布：GSM·美国（发布链接）
图片来源：图：Sean Payton本人资料图（2021年，All-Pro Reels摄，CC BY-SA 2.0，经Wikimedia Commons），非当场比赛画面。/ Sean Payton in a 2021 file photo (by All-Pro Reels, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons); not a photo from the game.
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