49ers’ Dre Greenlaw, Eagles’ head of security apologize to each other after sideline incident

Greenlaw said. “He seemed like a guy everyone loved in the building. So I hate that it even escalated and went to that.”

The two were ejected in the third quarter of San Francisco’s 42-19 win following a brief altercation on the sideline.

Officials reviewed video that showed “a staff person (DiSandro) that made contact with the player and that the player involved, No. 57 (Greenlaw), made contact with the staff member which warranted his disqualification,” Anderson said in the pool report.

Anderson said that DiSandro “was contributing to that escalation.” Anderson also mentioned an NFL rule that “does not afford us the ability to help the officials in throwing a flag that they do not throw for a non-player.”

Dre Greenlaw and Dom DiSandro apologized to each other through intermediaries after the 49ers-Eagles sideline incident.

Greenlaw: "He seemed like a genuine guy. He seemed like a guy everyone loved in the building. So I hate that it even escalated and went to that."

— David Lombardi (@LombardiHimself) Fred Warner’s 99. Greenlaw also is ninth among NFC linebackers in the fan portion of Pro Bowl voting so far. Warner is first in the NFC.

Shanahan has also now twice said that he hopes the NFL doesn’t come down too hard on DiSandro in terms of discipline. Both Shanahan and Greenlaw said they haven’t yet heard from the league office.

“I feel like I shouldn’t have been ejected,” Greenlaw said. “But I can’t go back and do anything about it now.”

The NFL reminded teams in a memo Wednesday that club personnel are “under no circumstances” allowed to engage or make physical contact with another club’s players or personnel. The league asked teams to “ensure that all members of (their) game day staff understand that their role does not extend to being involved with game day altercations.”

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