I have watched and re-watched the first half (plus about 7 minutes at the beginning of the 3rd quarter of Saturday’s Off Broadway production of Jekyll & Hyde football game vs. Arkansas and have concluded the following:
ruse
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noun
- an action intended to deceive someone; a trick:
- “Macondawg used an unsuccessful ruse to keep RedCrake from drinking all of his special game-day Tang, for there is none left. Turns out, the ruse was on Macondawg.”
- “In an inspired ruse, Kirby instructed his offensive team to play like s#!