I'm certainly not saying it was intentional. Hell, if only because the kid somehow managed to immediately get back up and presumably ask something along the lines of "hey! wtf?", I'm not even saying it was as bad as it looked. What I am saying is that somewhere way deep down under that striped uniform was a pre-teen headhunter who saw a gap that needed filling and some stars that needed gazing, as I can't be convinced that was merely the work of an adult official that was doing his best to get the hell out of the way. The extension on that forearm shiver was enough evidence I needed to know that referee temporarily forgot he was refereeing, but the subsequent shrug was just icing on the cake that the ref temporarily thought he would be greeted with after the game for making such a sweet tackle. There's just no way to blame a kid who was dipping and dodging a bunch of tacklers whose balls were at the same stage of dropping for not being able to also juke the elbow of a grown ass man standing in the middle of the field, unless said grown ass man had been taken back to the days when he was one of those tacklers. Therefore, I think it's time to put that guy on sideline duty before he lives vicariously through his own childhood and catches both a underdeveloped body and a case at his side gig.
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