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Ref throws bean bag instead of flag, tells everybody he threw bean bag instead of flag

This wasn’t a crazy mistake to make and made no difference on the game, but the fact that the ref had to announce it and say the words BEAN BAG over the PA make it amazing.

Refs sometimes blow the whistle inadvertently, or throw a flag when there wasn’t a penalty. But for whatever reason we can’t stop laughing about this referee announcement during Oregon State-Arizona State:

Something about the way he says “bean bag” gets us every time. We pay an adult human to throw a bean bag and he didn’t do it and he had to tell everybody he messed up.

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