A pretty bizarre scene went down today following the Birmingham Bowl between the Memphis Tigers and Auburn Tigers—which Auburn won 31-10.
According to a Deadspin article, some Memphis player named Reggis Ball was on the hunt for a football used during the game, going to great lengths in order to secure one by tackling an Auburn ballboy and then sprinting away in celebration as he flipped off opposing players.
Here’s what onlookers were tweeting about the incident, which, based on that video above, absolutely happened.
Memphis player No. 39 just ran to Auburn equipment personnel, tackled him and stole a football
— James Crepea (@JamesCrepea) December 30, 2015
Memphis football player just walked over to Auburn's sideline and stole their footballs and was tackled by a manager. Can't make this up.
— Alec Lewis (@alec_lewis) December 30, 2015
Memphis No. 39 grabbed football and was like jumping around and happy and cop ran over along with manager but he ran into locker room w/ it.
— Alec Lewis (@alec_lewis) December 30, 2015
Memphis player runs past me carrying what I'm guessing was a game ball. Auburn tried to get back. player runs away while giving the finger.
— Dana Sulonen (@DanaSulonen) December 30, 2015
Bizarre scene following game, Memphis safety Reggis Ball stole a ball from AU's sidelines, fought equipment staff for it
— WarEagleExtra (@wareagleextra) December 30, 2015
Per the football stealing situation: Darrell Dickey said Memphis is sorting out the altercation and will get facts squared away.
— Dana Sulonen (@DanaSulonen) December 30, 2015
I’d normally blame this on the a a a a a alcohol, but, unless Ball was sipping something other than Gatorade on the sidelines, this was just something he did because… well, there’s no reason I can come up with.
Let’s hope the dude explains himself during a postgame interview, because I really want to know what’s up.