This is why we do Texts From Game Day. We covered almost 12 hours of game day with more than 100 texts and they ride the wave of pregame thoughts, nonsensical observations before and afterward, the stunning lows and anticipated highs within the game and all sorts of story lines that weren’t necessarily related to the game. There’s even an eye patch!
Do me a favor: Don’t throw a flag at these antics. Record-setting Norfolk State Coach Pete Adrian might explode,
The Spartans, from the Football Championship Subdivision, set three Milan Puskar Stadium records in Saturday’s 55-12 loss to No. 19 WVU and were a party to two others. NSU was flagged 19 times for 177 yards and gave the West Virginia offense eight first downs by penalty.
“Don’t get me started,” said Spartans Coach Pete Adrian, a WVU lineman and linebacker of the late 1960s.
The two teams also combined for nine first downs by penalties and 262 penalty yards, 10 more than what WVU and Miami combined for in 1994.
Miami owned the previous record for penalties with 17 in that game. The Mountaineers had a record 158 yards in penalties against Temple in 1983. A team gave its opponent five first downs by penalty six times in field history, most recently by WVU against USF in 2008, but the Spartans beat that by three and that alone matched the combined record totals of WVU and Louisville in 2007 and WVU and Cincinnati in 1980, the first game at the stadium.
“If we are that stupid as players, then that’s the way it is,” Adrian said. “I’ll have to watch the film, but the officials are saying they did their job. We have to stop that if we are doing that.”
Excuse my charisma, vodka with a spritzer. Swagger down pat, call my texts Patricia.
My edits are in [brackets].
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