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Packing a Punch

by Michael Silver

Posted: Wed October 1, 1997

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Redskins defensive tackle Marc Boutte earned a game ball for his fourth-quarter interception of the Jaguars' Mark Brunell on Sunday, but in the locker room the 320-pound sixth-year player isn't even the most heralded member of his family. That distinction belongs to his wife, Tananjalyn, known affectionately as "Ms. Ali" since Sept. 14, when she decked a woman believed to be a stripper during the inaugural game at Jack Kent Cooke Stadium. Try this for family entertainment: The stripper stood up in a section filled with players' wives and said, "I don't know what y'all are doing here," explaining that after the game their husbands would be viewing a certain part of her anatomy. That set off Tananjalyn, who was whisked away by security and missed the end of Washington's 19-13 overtime victory over the Cardinals. "My baby doesn't back down to anyone," Marc Boutte says.

Issue date: October 6, 1997