austin peay

A preview. Apparently they played an FCS game last weekend. How did it go? Strangely, because Austin Peay was missing all three of their longsnappers:

The announcers noted that Austin Peay's long snapper didn't make the trip and a backup was in, but that's not quite right.

Austin Peay has *three* long snappers on the roster, #43, #46, and #47.
But last night, #33 was snapping. That's not any of those guys! pic.twitter.com/BHnH7kLnxs

— Rodger Sherman (@rodger) August 30, 2020

That guy was a backup LB at Mississippi State who transferred in and those snaps probably cost his team the game, not that any blame should fall on the emergency fourth-string long snapper. Rodger goes into all the detail you could possibly want on this eventuality in that twitter thread. Austin Peay isn't saying it was COVID, but I mean come on.

Moral of the story: keep a longsnapper in a bubble. And get ready for this to happen in a ton of games.

[After THE JUMP: is it because he's from Chicago and a cow burned the city down once?]