Crossbar Rejection

Near the end of the Ravens-Panthers Thursday night preseason game, backup quarterback Troy Smith took off on a run that resulted in a touchdown. Once in the endzone, he handed the rock off to his lineman Joe Reitz in order to let the big fella celebrate (they so rarely get the touchdown spotlight, after all). Reitz obviously didn't have anything planned, so he went for the old standby "goalpost dunk."

One problem: he got denied.

The most awkward part about Reitz being denied is that Reitz played basketball for four years at Western Michigan, where ended up pretty high on the school's all-time records list for points and rebounds. He's also 6'7" which means there's literally zero excuse for not being able to throw it down, big fella.

Yeah, they did their best to be cool about it.


OK, Let's talk about four more days of NFL preseason football this weekend.

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