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Michelle R. Martinelli

ESPN’s broadcast was floored by Virginia Tech fans passing around a giant turkey leg

No. 23 Clemson took on Virginia Tech on the road in Blacksburg on Saturday, and while the game was fairly close, a group of fans devouring a giant turkey leg briefly stole the show and the nearly undivided attention of the broadcast.

ESPN’s Mark Jones and Roddy Jones were on the call for the ACC matchup, and early in the third quarter, a camera cut to a bunch of Hokies fans with their turkey leg. But it wasn’t the size or general visual that caught Jones’ and Jones’ attention; it was the fact that the fans appeared to each take a bite or two and then pass the turkey leg to the next person.

As far as gross or unsanitary things college football fans do, this one seems fairly mild. But Jones and Jones were bewildered by the turkey leg getting passed around.

“I’ve seen three people’s hands on it, that’s three people who have put their mouths on it. Y’all ain’t got no house training.”

“I don’t know how sanitary that is, man. A turkey leg — it’s me, myself and I, and that’s it.”

The longer it took these fans to down the turkey leg, the more baffled Jones and Jones seemed to get.

Feature image courtesy of ESPN.

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