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“Pat Mahomes was the quarterback, and you know how that offense was. Our coach said if we looked to the sideline and somebody gives us the finger” — the gun signal — “one of us has to go down.”
He saw his cue and leapt into action.
”I just went, ‘Ah!’ like I had a cramp” — grabbing his upper hamstring — “and went down.”
The ref told him to stay down, so he did.
”I looked up, and all my teammates automatically knew.