Denzel Washington's wife gets run over after son's touchdown

By Chris Chase

Already this season we've seen incidents involving a football player running into a chain gang official and security . Now we can add "wife of an Academy Award-winner" to that list. Denzel Washington and his wife, Pauletta, were watching their son, J.D., play in a UFL game earlier this year. The eldest of Washington's four children is a running back for the Sacramento Mountain Lions (a team which has Daunte Culpepper(notes) as quarterback), and mom and dad were on the sidelines watching the game. As J.D. was sprinting to the end zone after catching a swing pass from Culpepper, his mom started running with him down the sideline. J.D. scored, but his mom wasn't so lucky, as Denzel explained to David Letterman. Not to worry, though. Denzel reports that his wife got up quicker than the player who ran into her. Apparently, she got game.