Jacob's Funniest Unsportsmanlike Penalty Ever

KrAzY3

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that guy had the audacity to get up in his grill after hanging onto his leg and being drug into the end zone. i thought if anything, they should have done offsetting penalties.
The way I took it is Jacob's whole landshark thing was in direct response to how the Ole Miss player was acting, trying to hang onto his leg in the end zone and that sort of nonsense. It was in my opinion a rather funny and dare I say classy way to respond to such antics.
 

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The way I took it is Jacob's whole landshark thing was in direct response to how the Ole Miss player was acting, trying to hang onto his leg in the end zone and that sort of nonsense. It was in my opinion a rather funny and dare I say classy way to respond to such antics.
it reminded me of jpw pointing at the scoreboard when an arky defender was running his mouth.
 

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He wasn't the only one to do it. Our defense did it a couple times and eventually it looked like Cochran told one of the DL guys to stop it towards the end of the game I can't remember which player it was but I think it may have been Q. Williams.
 

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Pardon me for not knowing but what is a land shark and how are OM relating it to football? I'm quite sure this has been discussed before and the answer is probably buried deep in a thread somewhere but who has time to look thru 10,000 topics. Again I apologize if this has been beaten to death, I just missed it. Thanks
 

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I think the ref made a mistake here. He wasn't taunting; If you look at the picture, he is clearly raising his arm to mime an elephant trunk. :)
 

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Pardon me for not knowing but what is a land shark and how are OM relating it to football? I'm quite sure this has been discussed before and the answer is probably buried deep in a thread somewhere but who has time to look thru 10,000 topics. Again I apologize if this has been beaten to death, I just missed it. Thanks
A number of years ago (Selma can probably tell us just how many) the ole sis defense started calling themselves the land sharks. With the mascot controversy at ole sis the vacuum allowed space for the land shark to become the official mascot of ole sis. Many people's first memory of a land shark was a Saturday Night Live skit.
 

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Pardon me for not knowing but what is a land shark and how are OM relating it to football? I'm quite sure this has been discussed before and the answer is probably buried deep in a thread somewhere but who has time to look thru 10,000 topics. Again I apologize if this has been beaten to death, I just missed it. Thanks
Exactly what the rest of the universe has been asking.

Apparently it is a flat headed spongy shark-like thingy with inflatable muscles and no bite. But I’m not for sure...

Others might just say it’s the stupidest mascot on the planet... right up there with Stanford’s tree.

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Exactly what the rest of the universe has been asking.

Apparently it is a flat headed spongy shark-like thingy with inflatable muscles and no bite. But I’m not for sure...

Others might just say it’s the stupidest mascot on the planet... right up there with Stanford’s tree.

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I think they took their cue from these guys:

 

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I personally thought it was a great response to the nonsense the Ole Miss defense was trying to pull.

Guy wouldn’t let go of Jacobs well after the play then tried to get all up in his face like he actually tackled him. Jacobs throwing up the fin, grinning, and saying “land sharks” was perfect, IMO. They want to act all bad, the least they can do is take their own nonsense.

It also looked like our whole team was in on the land shark joke, everybody was doing it.

For the record I also enjoyed it when JPW told the LSU student section to call him after scoring a TD in 2008, after they had been harassing his phone for two weeks.

IMO most times a taunting penalty isn’t worth it. But sometimes it is.
 

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Everybody won with this one, because of the new fair catch rule on kick offs. Most drives are starting from the 25 now and the ensuing drive by Ole Miss did as well.

I have the same question as others though, why is it not taunting when Ole Miss does it? If it is because they have some special right to it, will the opposing team be penalized if they sarcastically yell "Roll Tide"?
 

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Ok, I'll be the stick in the mud. I didn't find it funny, but I wasn't outraged either. I just hate silly penalties. The fact of the matter is that the tackler intentionally held onto Jacob's leg for about three extra steps, then lifted it up in the air. Definitely should have drawn a penalty, also.
 

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Pardon me for not knowing but what is a land shark and how are OM relating it to football? I'm quite sure this has been discussed before and the answer is probably buried deep in a thread somewhere but who has time to look thru 10,000 topics. Again I apologize if this has been beaten to death, I just missed it. Thanks
It's from a series of skits on SNL from the 1970s, where a landshark, dressed up much like the OM mascot, comes up with ridiculous reasons to be admitted to an apartment and always is. Upon admission, he pounces on the occupant...
 

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