Referee Tackles Quarterback in Official Game!!!

When I saw this, I thought it was that commercial where the ref tackles the Quarterback for a free bud light (video below). Here's the official response from the SEC:

But the SEC office believes Hackett was protecting himself and plans to take no disciplinary action on the veteran official. Rogers Redding, the conference's coordinator of football officials, reviewed the tape of the play and thought it was inadvertent contact.

"Garcia changes his direction just a tad, which ties up the umpire just a tad and makes it look a lot worse than it really was," SEC spokesman Charles Bloom said.

And here's the funny thing, the referee just so happens to be a former Parade High School All-American and a three-year starter at linebacker for Kentucky in the late '60s.