During Mississippi State’s game at Texas A&M on Saturday, the Bulldogs came up with this extremely nonsensical interception:
Mississippi State and Texas A&M traded completely nonsensical interceptions
I’m confused but delighted.
The classic “bobble into a carom off a defender into another defender’s arms” play. If you’ve seen it once, you’ve seen it, uh, probably once.
That’s not the only very silly interception of the night.
In the first quarter, Texas A&M got this weird one:
A brief recap of that clip:
- MSU’s Nick Fitzgerald threw a pass.
- The pass traveled a healthy distance in the air.
- The pass then made contact with either the shoulder or arm of a Mississippi State receiver or an A&M defensive back, or both. It’s hard to tell.
- Because the pass was traveling with serious velocity, its impact with whatever that was caused it to quickly carom in the opposite direction. A force staying in motion until another force acts on it, etc. Real scientific stuff.
- The ball somehow found its way into the waiting arms of A&M linebacker Otaro Alaka, who’d been engaged in a physical battle with an O-lineman.
And Alaka got the most delightful surprise he could’ve gotten, in the form of an interception just landing in his arms while he was in the middle of getting blocked.
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