{"id":877,"section":"sports","section_label":"Sports","url":"https://www.brokenews.co/sports/877","headline":"Nantz appears to hurt hand demonstrating 'Peanut Punch' on air","dek":"The CBS play-by-play man and new partner J.J. Watt turned a fumble-forcing tutorial into an unplanned injury scare during the Bills-Raiders broadcast.","body":"Jim Nantz spent Sunday's Bills-Raiders broadcast discussing defensive technique and ended up needing a trainer, or at least some ice. Late in the first half, Nantz and analyst J.J. Watt used a break in the action to explain the \"Peanut Punch,\" the fumble-forcing move popularized by Charles \"Peanut\" Tillman, who forced more fumbles than any defensive back in NFL history.\n\nWatt, a former NFL defender, walked through how modern ball carriers counter the move by gripping their own wrist for extra support while holding the football. To demonstrate just how sturdy that technique is, Watt held the ball and had the 67-year-old Nantz throw a punch at it to try to knock it loose.\n\nThe punch did not go well for Nantz. He appeared to hurt his hand on the attempt, giving viewers an injury moment that had nothing to do with the players on the field. The game itself ended in a Bills win over the Raiders, but the broadcast booth briefly became the more talked-about story of the day.","published_at":"2026-10-19T17:36:57.763629+00:00","source_count":4,"written_from":[{"outlet":"New York Post","publisher":"New York Post","title":"Jim Nantz appears to hurt hand punching football on live TV","url":"https://nypost.com/2026/10/19/sports/jim-nantz-appears-to-hurt-hand-punching-football-on-live-tv/"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Jim Nantz's attempted 'Peanut Punch' on J.J. Watt had a very painful result","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/jim-nantzs-attempted-peanut-punch-113442855.html"},{"outlet":"SB Nation","publisher":"SB Nation","title":"Jim Nantz injury: Did CBS broadcaster hurt his hand during Raiders-Bills?","url":"https://www.sbnation.com/nfl/1132752/jim-nantz-injury-did-cbs-broadcaster-hurt-his-hand-during-raiders-bills"},{"outlet":"Awful Announcing","publisher":"Awful Announcing","title":"Jim Nantz attempts ‘Peanut Punch’ on J.J. Watt, appears to hurt wrist: ‘Better get Jim some ice’","url":"https://awfulannouncing.com/cbs/jim-nantz-peanut-punch-jj-watt-hurt-himself-wrist-ice.html"}],"more_coverage":[{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Jim Nantz attempts ‘Peanut Punch’ on J.J. Watt, appears to hurt wrist: ‘Better get Jim some ice’","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/jim-nantz-attempts-peanut-punch-220057030.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Jim Nantz hurt his hand demonstrating ‘Peanut Punch’ on J.J. Watt","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/jim-nantz-hurt-hand-demonstrating-221527698.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"‘Jim Nantz: Questionable (Wrist/Hand)’ — J.J. Watt Amused as Veteran Broadcaster’s ‘Peanut Punch’ Goes Sideways in CBS Booth","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/jim-nantz-questionable-wrist-hand-062941668.html"}],"image":{"url":"https://platform.sbnation.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/10/Screenshot-2026-10-18-at-6.08.06-PM.png?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.012990387113536%2C100%2C87.055519197208&w=1200","credit":"SB Nation","width":1199},"embed":null,"license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"Analysis data is licensed CC BY 4.0. Credit brokenews and link to the story page you took it from. Source headlines, story titles taken from a source headline, and quoted passages remain the property of their publishers and are quoted for comparison, not licensed onward.","terms":"https://www.brokenews.co/about#reuse"}