It must have been Facebook conversations gone wrong. Or was it Twitter? Instagram? Snapchat? Text messages? Or simple trash talk across the 50-yard line warmups?
Whatever the case, Marshall and Conference USA newcomer Western Kentucky seemed awfully familiar to each other on Nov. 28, 2014, the day after Thanksgiving, and that familiarity bred contempt.
That contempt took exactly zero minutes and zero seconds to surface at Joan C. Edwards Stadium. That’s because the teams got into a fight before the opening kickoff, with coaches frantically separating the teams.
There were no fights during the game, but there were a combined 91 points.