When a team runs a dive play or a short flare pass to the running back short of the line of scrimmage the desire to equate the feat with poker is just too rich to ignore. In poker it’s called “limping in”. It’s when you’re dealt a hand that is either really good and you are in a bluffing mood, or it’s just barely serviceable but not bad enough to just fold and burn only the ante.
How many times this season have we seen the Virginia Tech Hokies just limp in? Not just to start the game, but to regularly start series after series.