We Have No Idea How Kickers Make Field Goals in Minnesota With Golden Gophers' Masterful Troll Job
By Scott Rogust
In football, games can come down to the left or right leg of a team's kicker. If you're the opposing kicker, the home team will do whatever it takes to distract them or throw them off in order to create a missed field goal or extra point attempt.
Nobody does it better in college football than the Minnesota Golden Gophers. When the opposing team attempts a field goal attempt, they plaster the hilarious "Dramatic Gopher" meme in order to troll them in order to mess up their flow.
This would absolutely crack me up if I were an opposing kicker: https://t.co/Kx9zgWNcN4 pic.twitter.com/Iw4YdP5rYl
— Nicole Auerbach (@NicoleAuerbach) October 10, 2019
Seriously, how can you keep a straight face with the 50-foot "Dramatic Gopher" staring you directly in the eyes?
Some teams will put "MISS" in giant lettering on the scoreboard to throw them off. Others will use arrows to attempt to push the kick wide right or left.
The Minnesota Golden Gophers used the "Dramatic Chipmunk" meme to attempt to put off opposition kickers pic.twitter.com/pFpyNnBshO
— Matchbook (@TeamMatchbook) September 4, 2015
But this is just masterful work. Granted, it doesn't work all the time, but it does draw a laugh from the opposing kicker.
With the extreme level of seriousness in college football, the Minnesota Golden Gophers remind us all that it's not a bad thing to have a good laugh in the midst of competition.