When watching and listening to the clip below, I just kept envisioning Rob Schneider’s character from Necessary Roughness announcing the game. This clip has gotten so much press that the NYT wrote about the student announcer Jonathan Wiener (who did a fantastic job keeping up with the frenetic action on the field).
In case you were wondering, a lateral according to Webster is both defined as “directed toward, or coming from the side” when used as an adjective or “a pass in football thrown parallel to the line of scrimmage or in a direction away from the opponent’s goal” when used as a noun.
Enjoy watching about 15 of them below.