I did not see the game live, so I am watching the replay on xbox. (ESPN with their damn New England play-by-play guys - Tessitore must be the token from BC to go with their usual Syracuse guys)
Anyway, they did go overboard over the 3-4 quarter break harping on Swain's injury. They said he was walking fine after the tackle on the previous play, when he was doing some stiff-legged hobble. They claimed he was looking to the sideline for a signal, when every defender looks to the sideline for play call. I wonder if Swain saw the subs going in-out and went ahead and said fuck it I need to get out. Remember that Arkansas had to swap nearly everyone out from their fake field goal to regular offense - the first down box was set and the ref had already started the game clock.
Of course, Millen played LB at Penn State - so a coach telling him to go down and fake it has an entirely different meaning.
Oh, they came back to it again during the break where the referee was injured. (He probably faked it too) If you have a player fake an injury, you do it soccer-style where they return to the game after a quick miraculous recovery. You don't take a contributor out for the rest of the whole game just to embellish a fake.
And now Tessitore throws in the Pat "Tie" Dye reference - douchebag. He should know that is not an innocuous reference, given his involvement in the AU-turd and Bo Knows 30-for-30s.
Not a fan of SEC-TV on ESPN if the crews are going to be all-yankee asshats
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