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Why did they have Ricky drop the football?

posted 10 years ago by ccbeachgirl
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...and then grow up to be this great football player?

[–] Spittinlmage 10 years ago

Same reason Jordan got cut from the basketball team. Failure is the stepping stone to success.

[–] AugustGorman 8 years ago

I would the guess the actor kid was supposed to catch it, but fumbled.

What is that thing you're using?.... It's technical.

[–] Burk48917 (11384) 2 years ago

I thought that too.

[–] redban (6318) 4 years ago

Shows that he was scared / shook from the incident, which affected his excellent football skills

[–] daveyh (632) a year ago

to show that he'd be a running back rather than a wide receiver