The loudest cheers from the fans inside Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium on Saturday came for the Frisbee-catching canine who tickled young and old alike by leaping to grasp the orange discs thrown by its human during prolonged breaks in play in Arkansas’ first proper home game of the season against Alabama-Birmingham.
It was hard to blame the fans, really. The reason they came to cheer provided encouragement in only spurts. Arkansas’ ultimately dispatched UAB, a school in such dire straits that it didn’t even field a football team, 37-27, though only about three-quarters of the 75,000-plus who came to watch stuck around for the ending.