Even if you know nothing about American football you might enjoy this.
An official tackles the ball carrier who might have scored on the play
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Apparently defending himself??? Nah, the referee went for him...

Lmao!!! I'm sure that referee will get a ban or something along them lines, as its obviously clear he deliberately stopped that run! Funny tho .

Rofl, that has to be one of the funniest things that's ever happened in American Football

Lmao that was unbelievable.

This is from an article about this :
"When contacted by ESPN's Joe Schad, the Southeastern Conference office said after reviewing the play, it believes the umpire was in appropriate position. A spokesman said the umpire raised his arm to defend himself after a change of direction by the runner."
I think the Conference is trying to make it go away

EDIT: As for the ref, that was a textbook tackle! (apart from not wrapping him up)

Edited at 17:00 Tue 21/10/08 (BST)

Haha, just proves you don't need all that excessive padding to tackle on this game. If it was a rugby official the ref would probably have got squashed.