Hello. I’d like to draw your attention to one of my favorite plays of the college football season, which happened in Fayetteville during a 45-31 Vanderbilt win over Arkansas:
Somehow, a 270-pound Vanderbilt lineman picked off a pass after ALL of this
There’s nothing to do but stand and applaud.
Bravo, to you Louis Vecchio.
All lineman interceptions are good. We have a whole award dedicated to linemen doing cool things with the ball in their hands, and you can bet this play will be a nominee. But this one’s impressive in its own unique way, entirely different than a lineman picking up the pigskin and running with it. This one’s a high-wire feat of hand-eye coordination.
At so many different points in what amounts to, like, a one-second period in real time, it looks like Vecchio has no plausible shot at catching the ball. There is this one ...
... and this one, especially ...
... and definitely this one:
And the ball found its way into Vecchio’s capable hands anyway. The mosaic:
His interception got the Commodores the ball at the Arkansas 29. Seven plays later, they were in the end zone and up 45-21, en route to a pretty easy win.
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