Maine Maritime and Massachusetts Maritime hooked up in their annual rivalry football game last weekend, and, well, so this happened.
(And a tip of the hat to Deadspin for alerting us to it.)
Keep your eye on the official in the end zone in the upper right side of the screen, and ignore the background audio, which apparently is someone listening to someone else explain why the President of the United States shouldn't oughta be strong-arming foreign governments into assisting in his re-election bid. As if, you know, that's not kind of "well, duh" to anyone in America who still has a working brain cell.
Anyway ... watch the puff of smoke. Then watch the ref go down like he was shot. Because, well, he kind of was.
Turns out the wadding from a cannon fired to celebrate Maine Maritime touchdowns hit Stripes in the head. Apparently it's a tradition at Maine Maritime for an alumnus to bring a cannon to the games and let 'er rip. Because nothing says a lovely Saturday afternoon in the fall like "Let's load this puppy with double canister wadding and fire away, boys."
("Hear, hear," says the ghost of Alonzo Cushing.)
(Look him up, Blobophiles.)
Anyway ... the ref was carted off to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries, thank heavens. And Maine Maritime, those spoilsports, sent out a statement saying alumni would no longer be allowed to bring their own artillery to the games.
Some people just live to take all the fun out of college football, I guess.
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