Every play in football requires 11 players simultaneously jolting into action, and NFL teams have complex methods of making this work. Players screw this up a lot, resulting in false starts. When that player is the center, whose job it is to snap the ball, they look like they’ve given up on football and life entirely:
The Lions’ center stood still with the football while football happened around him
Some say Travis Swanson is still standing there, motionless, to this very day.
That’s Travis Swanson, the Lions’ center, transformed into a statue as football goes on around him. It looks like Golden Tate, the slot receiver, was going off the snap of the ball and not the count, so he’s just chilling out too. Obviously, this was a false start. The referees had the fun task of picking which of the eight false starting players to call for the penalty.
Previously: FALSE START, EVERYONE BUT THE CENTER.
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