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The smoke ring Bowling Green made with cannon has to be a ghost, because it’s too perfect

James Dator
James Dator has been covering a wide range of sports for SB Nation for over a decade, with a special focus on the NFL.

HOW?! Okay, let’s try to use our words. HOW?! We’ll try again *ahem*. Bowling Green created the kind of giant smoke ring that vape shops will be talking about for the next month. Their cannon supposedly created this phenomenon, but it seems completely impossibly perfect.

There’s only one other explanation: It’s a ghost. Bear with me, because I’m inventing my own fiction here. Bowling Green’s cannon is actually a decommissioned Civil War cannon they picked up at a yard sale in 1987. The spirits aligned juuuust so (likely woken by a vuvuzela) and inhabited the smoke as the cannon was fired. None of this is true, but it’s the best I’ve got.

via @RedditCFB

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