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Hold your horses! Was Lord Nelson the penalized Rutgers football equine? There's a debate

On Wednesday, we brought you the sad news about longtime Rutgers police horse Lord Nelson, who passed away decades after being called for a penalty in a Rutgers-Army game in 1994.

But Kevin MacConnell, the former Rutgers associate athletic director for marketing and communications, is "99 percent" sure Lord Nelson wasn't the equine on the field that day. He says it was a horse from Medieval Times, the theme restaurant that includes jousting tournaments in Lyndhurst.

"We had a barter deal," he remembered, along with the panic over potentially losing his job if Rutgers lost because of the horse, to N.