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Personal Foul - Giving him the Business


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Yeah I guess it did happen. I did a search online using the thread title here and found this - its not the first time that phrase was used..

Dreith is also known among football fans for his unique explanation of a personal foul penalty during a 1986 game between the Buffalo Bills and the New York Jets. After the Jets' Marty Lyons (misidentified as Mark Gastineau during Dreith's call) tackled Bills quarterback Jim Kelly to the ground and started to repeatedly punch him in the head, Dreith announced to the crowd:

We have a personal foul, on number 99 of the defense, after he tackled the quarterback, he's giving him the business down there, that's a 15-yard penalty.[1]

21 Years later, during a game that featured the University of Maryland against North Carolina State, ACC referee Ron Cherry used the same quote to reference a personal foul. Even without understanding the meaning of the quote, the crowd broke out in laughter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Dreith

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