EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ — All season, both Army and Navy build toward this game. They run plays over the course of the season to lay traps during film study for their counterpart, and they have plenty of time to scheme up trick plays in the bye week before America’s Game. But what nobody counted on, was something like this happening:
“We were kinda checking the protection because they gave us a certain look,” linebacker Diego Fagot said after the first carry of his career. “Once I checked it, the snapper must have misheard something and so he snapped it to me instead.