I was wondering when this was going to become a topic of conversation, but held out some hope it ultimately wouldn’t. Unfortunately, that proved to be a false hope.
For at least the last couple of weeks, perhaps even longer, Lamar Jackson has made a distinct gesture some of his myriad touchdowns. At first blush to some, it may appear to be a throat slash gesture; to others that aren’t looking for things to bitch and whine about, it looks like the Louisville quarterback is telling someone -- teammates? the opposition? -- to shush.
Following the last of his seven touchdowns in the woodshedding of Boston College, Jackson again made the gesture.
I’d like to think that most sane people would see Jackson making the gesture across his mouth in an innocuous way and not across his throat in a slashing manner. I was very wrong, of course, as the Heisman frontrunner was, because it finally went viral this weekend, forced to issue a statement through the school after the game explaining the gesture.
Thus ends the latest, but not last, faux controversy of the 2016 college football season.