Rugby league larrikin Cooper Johns poked fun at the scuffling Raiders by wielding an inflatable baseball bat on a Las Vegas red carpet and peppering Hudson Young, one of the hotel lift brawlers, with cheeky questions about the saga.
The latest chapter in one of the great rugby league stories saw Johns, a former NRL playmaker with Melbourne and Manly, brandish a Simpsons-themed baseball bat in Downtown Las Vegas during a media skit with Sportsbet, the NRL's official gambling partner.
He also whacked Young on the head with the blow-up bat as 9News' Danny Weidler tried to interview him.
The prop of choice was a mischievous reference to the blow-up baseball bat involved in the fracas between Young and Canberra teammate Morgan Smithies, which occurred in the wee hours of a Las Vegas morning last week but didn't rear its head in the press until a few nights later.
"We're not gonna ask you anything about the elevator stuff, all right?" Johns told Young with a wry grin while waving the bat around.
Of course, that was a promise the son of former NRL star Matty Johns was never going to keep.
"Mate, so who won in the elevator fight?" Cooper asked as he kicked off the interview.
Cooper Johns hitting Hudson Young with an inflatable baseball bat. Nine
Young didn't want a bar of it.
"Ah, I don't know what you're talking about, mate," he smirked.
Canberra coach Ricky Stuart didn't appear to see the humour in Johns' red-carpet antics.
"Each to their own, mate, and types of ways they want to do their, well I don't know if he's a journalist, but journalism," Stuart said with a shrug of his shoulders.
The Canberra coach also brushed away any concern of the hotel lift fiasco throwing the club's opening-round preparation into disarray.
"It's no worries with us. We see it as a joke. No dramas with us," Stuart said.
"I've been a football player before, I've been involved in those incidents, [and] you get over it.
"… It died the sudden death it deserved.
"It hasn't had one ounce of disruption to us.
"It's been fine. I appreciated talking to you guys [reporters] and appreciated the fact you understood what it was for. It was a nothing thing."
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