This is one of the most hilarious and inventive middle-school football plays you will ever see—and also the simplest! I can only imagine that the following things happened afterward:
1) The quarterback scored some MAJOR middle-school booty!
2) The entire defense never heard the end of it, and how stupid they looked. Their self-esteem was shattered and the most successful of them grew up to mop floors in a McDonalds 30 miles out of Dubuque, Iowa.
Still… awesome play!!
You can’t motion toward the line of scrimmage during the snap (at least in college and NFL). Also, QBs have to keep their hands stationary during the snap. Inventive, but it should be a five-yard penalty either way.
That shit is bush league. Those middle schoolers should be ashamed of themselves
Don’t think that this would be a false start or illegal motion. The NCAA rules exclude the QB moving their hands only in the case of “chucking”, which is purposefully faking the snap. Case in point, shotgun formation qb looks to the sideline or at a WR and is gesticulating with his hands when ball is snapped. It’s ruled a fumble not a false start and it’s not illegal motion in this case because the QB wasn’t moving towards the lines of scrimmage. Bending over to talk to your lineman doesn’t apply there and that looked like what he was doing. Again, he’s not faking the start of the play. It may be bush league but it’s a legal play and damn funny one too.
Chip Kelley just put this in his playbook.
Not veddy sporting, and I’m dumbfounded, *Mister* Humphrey, that you would lend your imprimatur to such an unsavoury act of athletic deception.
OK, maybe I’m not dumbfounded.
This is a common trick play, there are a bunch of these on YouTube. I’m surprised nobody at the game new about it already. Also common is the “sleeper” play, where the ball is snapped but everyone stays still.