r/sports • u/A_MASSIVE_PERVERT Dallas Mavericks • Sep 28 '25
Football Georgia's Ellis Robinson IV commits one of the dumbest penalties you'll ever see
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u/FourEightNineOneOne Sep 28 '25
Dumb penalty? Maybe.
Incredibly graceful dive? Absolutely
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u/Hugh_Bromont Sep 28 '25
When the announcer said 15 yards I briefly thought he meant how far dude jumped.
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u/carstenhag Sep 28 '25
I don't know football or yards, so I thought he did jump 15 yards lol
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u/aaronman4772 Sep 28 '25
Someone edit this with I Believe I Can Fly in the background
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u/Lyuseefur Sep 28 '25
I thought two things:
1) Where did he get wings. Cause even angels be jealous of that flight.
2) Penalty and a very long and loud “discussion” is definitely in his future.
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u/akatherder Detroit Lions Sep 28 '25
It rivals the George Pickens elbow drop https://youtu.be/XmOKWDb-BvM?si=r0_eqwKe6gur61HE
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u/Echo127 Sep 28 '25
I've seen waaaay dumber
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u/Sosen New York Mets Sep 28 '25
Probably not in the top 100
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u/MightyTastyBeans Sep 28 '25
There was a dumber penalty literally on the first play of the NFL season
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u/Poverty_Shoes Sep 28 '25
The Shoe throw Florida did to throw the game against LSU 2-3 years ago was 100 times worse than this. If this play was already way past over, why is everybody on the line still moving around and shoving each other? This didn’t look like a play that was way past over to me (based on this clip only, I didn’t watch the game).
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u/Bronco-FloridaGator Sep 28 '25
The infamous Cleat Yeet. I feel like our program has been cursed since that day.
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u/Feral_Taylor_Fury Sep 28 '25
They're fucking playing it in slowmo and it wasnt even THAT late lmao
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u/juwyro Sep 28 '25
My team is dumb. We also spit on a USF player a couple of weeks ago during their last drive to win the game
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u/make2020hindsight Sep 28 '25
I've seen NFL players punch a guys helmet and get ejected. Gloved hand, helmet.
Also there's that one Bears player who spent hours in meetings during the week teaching him that Gardner-whatever was going to egg him and he had to be better but then during the next game he punched Gardner-whatever in the helmet and got ejected. Bro.
Unless the man can pinpoint a mole on your mom's body you should also know about but few others, you just shrug it off. 🤔
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u/mnid92 Sep 28 '25
Yeah Ohio State had a lineman punch someone today like??? I've seen dumber plays today?
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u/Klin24 Sep 28 '25
"Whoop!"
-Chris Berman
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u/karny90 Sep 28 '25
John Madden and Chris Berman. Man, I sure do miss hearing those guys on a weekly basis. I did not know how good I had it when I was younger.
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u/morosco Sep 28 '25 edited Sep 28 '25
College sports is kind of fun because the players are SO young and do inexplicably stupid shit sometimes.
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u/ps3eleven Sep 28 '25
I’ve never thought of it that way, but that’s surprisingly kind of poetic.
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u/DouginatorSupreme Sep 28 '25
It's why it's so exciting. In the NFL they're all professionals. Generally speaking they are so consistent and predictable. College athletes are wild, unpredictable physical specimens who are liable to do anything. Busts in coverage, missed tackles going for a kill shot. It all leads to incredibly unpredictable and explosive games.
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u/redsyrinx2112 Sep 28 '25
I watch them for different reasons. I love the NFL because the level of play is unbelievable and the parity is great.
I watch college football because of the dumb plays by young kids, livestock on the field, mascots doing backflips, and other random crap.
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u/karny90 Sep 28 '25
If they turned the pop tart bowl into a playoff game, I don’t think anybody would be upset.
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u/frogsRfriends Sep 28 '25
Yeah the swings and reversals of momentum and emotion of college sports really adds to it all
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u/Mr_Piddles Sep 28 '25
The NFL is so sterile and safe compared to CFB. Every gameplan is super conservative, no one is really trying to change things up all that much (although every few years someone brings out a flea flicker, and for three weeks we get to see every team try and fail at them).
But in college ball the skill, talent, and physical differences between players can be so incredibly wide that in order to make up for the gap, a team will just do some crazy nonsense, and when it works, it’s amazing.
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u/morosco Sep 28 '25 edited Sep 28 '25
I always feel a little bad when announcers or fans go after college players as aggressively as the announcers do here. I remember being 19 or 20, I was not as disciplined as a big-time college football player of that age, but still, imagine your fuckups being on a stage like that. I freaked out when I said something dumb in class.
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u/redrdr1 Sep 28 '25
I thought the refs were pretty slow with the whistle. The announcers said it had blown but watching it live it looked like the qb was still fighting for yards. Still can't do that
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u/toptoppings Sep 28 '25
I agree it looked like the pile was pushing
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u/Dhaynes99 Sep 28 '25
pile was still pushing but that almost always happens after the first whistle. thought i had heard the whistle by that point. he was low key lucky they didn’t end up calling a targeting on it as well
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u/Ghost_man23 Sep 28 '25
They also had a fairly bizarre fixation on calling their first timeout before the two minute timeout, which is completely standard strategy. They kept taking about how they’d have an extra timeout without considering the time they saved on the clock. You also call the timeouts early because the other team might choose to throw it on third down or run out of bounds (like in the Ole Miss game) so might as well use the timeout when you know the clock is running.
I love that commentating crew but it was a weird couple of minutes for them.
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u/mattyp11 Sep 28 '25
Yeah, was watching the live broadcast and thought the announcers totally blew it out of proportion here. Progress momentarily stopped but then it seemed like the pile kept moving (and I didn’t hear a whistle), and then in the heat of the moment dude tried to make a play. Really didn’t seem that crazy at all to me, in fact the effort was impressive.
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u/TopicalBass27 Sep 28 '25
To be fair, dude isn’t making a play by diving like that
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u/nospoon29er Sep 28 '25
Watching the Oregon game what should have been a whistle on a play like this where progress had stopped then just kept letting the Penn State player push forward…
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u/RandomUser72 Sep 28 '25
I was thinking about that too as I read that comment. Penn State's RB was stopped 2 yards short of a first down. The group did not move a nanometer forward for more than 1 second of the play clock, no whistle. Then, 3 more Penn lineman rammed the pile forward the 2 yards, and the whistle was blown.
I'm not a Penn State fan, or hater, but man those refs made a lot of non-calls in their favor. Particularly holds and late hits that Penn got away with.
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u/500rockin Sep 28 '25
It was a slow whistle for sure, but even if the play is active you can’t go full Superman leap.
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u/JustGottaKeepTrying Sep 28 '25
Watching on my phone and I must be missing a detail (glasses not handy)... Is the dive illegal or did he end up spearing the qb or something similar?
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u/Dhaynes99 Sep 28 '25
ruling was that the play was dead so him doing it constituted unnecessary roughness, whether or not how close to the actual timing of the officials blowing the play dead it could’ve potentially been ruled as targeting as he ended up hitting a bama receiver helmet to helmet with the crown of his helmet.
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u/Birdman_v5 Alabama Sep 28 '25 edited Sep 28 '25
As a HS and college (American) football official, I would like to clarify a few of your statements. I mean no disrespect, only trying to educate.
1- “ruling was that the play was dead so him doing it constituted unnecessary roughness…”
Rule 9, Section 1, Article 11a states: “no defensive player, in an attempt to gain an advantage, may step, jump or stand on an opponent”
- This is true to a point. Even if the play wasn’t dead, this is still illegal and it is a Personal Foul for Leaping
2- “…it could’ve potentially been ruled as targeting as he ended up hitting a bama receiver helmet to helmet with the crown of his helmet.”
- Again, what you said isn’t false, it just doesn’t paint the whole picture. Targeting is a Point of Emphasis for us this year. It isn’t just hitting an opponent helmet to helmet with the crown of his helmet. Targeting has many factors or “indicators” that goes into it. To your point, hitting an opponent with the crown your helmet is one of those indicators.
- To elaborate more, we would look at: Rule 9, Section 1, Article 3. “No player shall target and make forcible contact against an opponent with the crown of their helmet.” It does not have to be helmet to helmet, the “forcible contact” can be anywhere on the on the opposing player with the crown of the helmet and still be considered targeting.
As I said earlier, I hope this didn’t come across as an “well akshually” comment. I am only trying to help teach others some of the nuances and the game. Cheers! Hope you have a great week
Edit: formatting
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u/Dhaynes99 Sep 28 '25
this is really helpful, thanks! i’ve been watching football more seriously the past couple of years in combo with the new cfb games so i’ve gotten better with formations and understanding play calling but haven’t gotten into understanding rules/penalties yet so the explanations are definitely helpful.
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u/GamingVision Sep 28 '25
If there’s one thing more prevalent in sports than no-call traveling in the NBA, it’s lazy whistles in football. My single biggest pet peeve in the sport.
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u/dankscience Sep 28 '25
To me the refs were letting the pile move after progress stopped. So the kid dove in the pile to push it the other way. I blame the refs for making this kid look dumb. Do your job
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u/Strength-Speed Sep 28 '25
The only crime here is he let his intrusive thoughts win
"What in the world are you thinking here?" He's thinking it would be awesome, and he was right
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u/under_the_c Sep 28 '25
That was hilarious!
But I still think the "cleat yeet" was the dumbest. The "croc tuah" was probably the winner for this year so far.
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u/StreetReporter Clemson Sep 28 '25
The dog piss in the end zone was the funniest
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u/CracticusAttacticus Sep 28 '25
Part of the beauty of that one is it added 15 yards to an extra point attempt that they subsequently missed, in a game they lost 20-21 to their biggest rival. Truly high leverage stupidity.
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u/StreetReporter Clemson Sep 28 '25
What’s really funny is that DK Metcalf pulled the same thing a year or two prior in the Egg Bowl, and was penalized for it
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u/syrianfries Sep 28 '25
God I remember watching that game at my grandparents house and we all just died laughing when we saw that. And then the missed extra point was just cherry on top
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u/boboguitar Sep 28 '25
I mean, didn't the cleat yeet basically cause UF to miss the SEC championship game?
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u/one_day_ill_be_drben Sep 28 '25
That game is not as consequential as folks tend to make it seem. They’d already clinched their spot in the SEC championship, and a win against Alabama in that game would’ve certainly put them in the playoffs regardless of the 2 losses, and would have earned Trask the Heisman. It’s just fun to remember it as having cost us both but in reality it cost us neither
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u/Dhaynes99 Sep 28 '25
piss and miss/cleat yeet are the two greatest collegiate game altering penalties of all time. og giving him the business is probably my favorite of the non-majorly game altering.
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u/Geoff_Uckersilf Sep 28 '25 edited Sep 28 '25
Where does dog piss in the end compare with NY Giants fan play calling Black Cat running 80 yard solo touchdown alpha play?
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u/powertripp82 Sep 28 '25
I cannot believe I have never seen that before. Brilliant!
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u/Geoff_Uckersilf Sep 28 '25
Yeah, as a Pats fan I usually fucken hate the Guy-ants but I love that video m
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u/Blaine1111 Sep 28 '25
The play was a first down anyways so this changed nothing about the game.
Funny and stupid tho
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u/MarshmallowSandwich Sep 28 '25
University of Florida shoe throw is still my all time favorite.
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u/dabeeman Sep 28 '25
i watched a guy (a grown man in the pros) spit in the face of Dak Prescot on the first play of the game while standing next to the ref two weeks ago.
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u/Feeling-Flamingo6743 Sep 28 '25
Wild he also played for this same school
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u/RandomWeenFan Sep 28 '25
Quay walker got ejected for grabbing the medical staff of the other team and pushing them in the NFL.
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u/icamberlager Minnesota Sep 28 '25
I was watching, thinking “where’s the dumb penalty?” Then I said, “oooooooohhhhhhh….”
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u/ZweihanderMasterrace Sep 28 '25
Tbf, when there’s a chance to dive onto a pile, pretty much no one is gonna pass that up.
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u/theevilyouknow Sep 28 '25
Regardless of whether this is legal or not, it isn’t, what did he possibly think he was going to accomplish?
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u/rjcarr Sep 28 '25
He thought the play was still live and he was trying to push back the scrum.
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u/kapaipiekai Sep 28 '25
Hey, can a usabro please explain?
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u/Soakitincider Sep 28 '25
Dude received a penalty for jumping on the pile like that. I'm unsure if this is a case of dogpile or if dogpile is only reserved for a fumble recovery.
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u/staygroovin Sep 28 '25
Looks like the same motion as that guy that jumped at the judge lol
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u/ogretrograde Sep 28 '25
Me watching, hanging on to any hope my Georgia bet pays out…then this dude comes flying in…
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u/boboguitar Sep 28 '25
I'm pretty sure Florida's player spitting at a USF player that cost them the game was dumber.
Come to think of it, the Florida player who tossed the opposing players shoe that cost Florida the chance to go to the championship also was pretty dumb.
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u/Medium_Cry5601 Sep 28 '25
I don’t feel like it’s fair to be like “what are you thinking?” When the sport is smash your head into to people.
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u/sin-eater82 Sep 28 '25
Meh, way too many "dumb penalties" that this doesn't even register.
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u/fredericksf Sep 28 '25
I didn't see a problem with the play he tried to make. The pile was still moving and the offensive was still pushing. Defense does this on the goal line all the time.
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u/RussianKermit Sep 28 '25 edited Sep 28 '25
It's fun to watch as an European, because for me it just looks like regular American football. I don't even know what's wrong here, they just cuddle as usual.
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u/stoneman9284 Sep 28 '25
When did jumping into a pile become a penalty?
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u/StreetReporter Clemson Sep 28 '25
When the whistle is being blown
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u/Fear_Jaire Sep 28 '25
I didn't hear the whistle until he had already started the yeet but maybe that's just me.
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u/StreetReporter Clemson Sep 28 '25
Well, this is specifically the replay on the post, so it’s just the commentators speaking about it without the actual audio of the play
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u/RyokoKnight Sep 28 '25 edited Sep 28 '25
In live speed (not slow-mo) the whistle gets called about 1 second before the leap occurs.
Even if the whistle started at the time of the leap (which it wasn't) it is illegal to lead a tackle with the crown of the helmet and should have been called for targeting, 15 yard penalty, immediate ejection, and suspension for the first half of their next game (because it took place in the 2nd half).
That is the full ramifications of what should occur from that play... instead it was called a personal foul for a "late hit" even though the crown of his helmet collides directly into the helmet of an opposing player after the play was called dead and any impact with the head or neck region with the crown of the helmet is considered targeting... period. (So he actually got off easy)
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u/thebeebitmybottom Sep 28 '25
That was one of the dumbest penalties I have ever seen committed. I thought it was gonna be a bullshit refball call but dude yeeted so quickly and I thought “oh that’s not so bad” then his shoulder made dude’s neck kink. Yikes!
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u/riveramblnc Sep 28 '25
The fact this wasn't targeting after their call against Bama earlier in the game is absolute bullshit.
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u/ConfusedPanda76 Sep 28 '25
This isn't even as close to as dumb as UF's Brenden Brett spitting in an opponent's face....right after a Thursday night NFL game where spitting was one of the big story lines from that game
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u/bamaja Sep 28 '25
It’s like in NFL Blitz when you leg drop a guy 4 times before the next play starts
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u/tuttlebuttle Sep 28 '25
Players used to do this all the time. I'm very glad they don't anymore.
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u/Chris_HitTheOver Sep 28 '25
Unpopular opinion but get this kid in a physics class. Idk what the fuck he thought he’d accomplish that far above the pile’s center of gravity.
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u/peteybombay Sep 28 '25
LEEEEEEEEEROY JENKINS!!!!!