Heatherg21
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I am looking forward to our AZ Military Academy Ball, maybe I can shake the hand of the long snapper? A story for the ages, a game for the ages. Still grinning.Talk about rides!!! The Army-Navy game was a shared ride for everyone. Just read that long snapper on the uncalled “fake punt” was plebe from AZ! Nerves maybe? It was the play that made the game. Midn 1/C Faggot who took the surprise snap and made the play looked like it was planned. Those two and the team will have a story for the ages. What a game. What teamwork!
From the Annapolis Gazette:
Remarkably, Fagot admitted afterward he had no idea a fake punt was coming and he would be required to make a play. Apparently, freshman long snapper Ethan Nguyen was the only one in on the fake.
“No one asked for it. The snapper, he just snapped it to me. I wasn’t expecting it. I didn’t know it was coming, honestly,” Fagot told CBS sideline reporter Jamie Erdahl after the game.
“So honestly, I attribute that to God. I just reacted and I played football. I don’t know what else to say.”
Navy coach Ken Niumatalolo, who was in tears after the game, confirmed the fake punt was not called by the coaching staff. He later learned that Nguyen thought Fagot had checked into the fake, but he had not done so.
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