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Referee falls over in Seahawks-Jets game

Sometimes it’s hard to walk.

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Bill Hanstock
Bill Hanstock is a writer, author and Emmy Award-winning producer. He began writing for SB Nation in 2011.

During Sunday's game between the New York Jets and the Seattle Seahawks, a referee felt like giving a gift to humanity. The gift of an on-camera pratfall.

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Can we all get together and adapt the “butterfingers” term to people who trip over their own feet? For example, “Way to go, butterfeet.”

If you can’t laugh at a corpulent ref with a towel shoved into his pants who falls over, you should probably call your doctor. You may be dead inside.

Way to go, butterfeet.

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