You need a quarterback or a running back in a direct snap formation to start a play in football, right? That's what I thought too.
Michigan State however didn't think so and this play may have cost them the game today against Iowa.
Iowa won in double OT, 19-16...
The state of sports media in 2011 is such that an athlete can hardly fart without it being captured on a cell phone camera and posted on TMZ and Deadspin within 30 minutes.