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gab13by13

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5. Rumor told by one of the Rooneys,

Reply to Joe Cool (Original post)

Sun Dec 25, 2022, 01:04 AM

Dec 2022

I don't remember which one. When Franco ran for the TD, the referees huddled to decide if it was a legal play, if the ball touched the Raider DB first or touched Frenchy Fuqua. As the story goes the head ref called someone and asked how much security do you have and the answer came back, 1 cop, to which the ref declared, Touchdown.

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