Head Coach of the Michigan State Football Team, Mark Dantonio, uses different themes each week to try to encourage his team to work hard come game time. Usually the themes are inspiring videos from Muhammad Ali and football greats, but at the end of the teams’ last practice of the year on Thursday the theme involved a real live and real angry alligator. 

It’s not to often you’ll see a gator in Michigan but the head coach had an inspiring philosophy behind bringing a dangerous creature to the field, to create a team passion to fight to the very end. Dantonio had arranged for the team to watch the alligator get wrestled by a man in MSU football gear only to see his stunt turn south. 

The stunt man took part in the MSU on field meeting blending in with the team. at the end of practice Coach Dantonio asked if any of his Spartans would challenge the alligator brought before them. When no one volunteered, the stunt man, in MSU football gear, ran out to wrastle the gator only to trip over that exact equipment helping him blend in. When the stunt man tripped in front of the gator, the pre-historic creature chomped down on his leg.

Luckily he wasn’t seriously injured but this cannot be a good sign for the Spartans who match-up against the Georgia Bulldogs on Monday in the Outback Bowl. The good news is a bulldog’s bite will only require a couple of stitches instead of loss of limbs.