Tennessee’s players s̶e̶e̶m̶i̶n̶g̶l̶y̶ kept the receipts.
Let’s go back a few days though. On Friday afternoon, Alabama football officially dropped their hype video for the Tennessee game, with none other than former Tennessee turned Tide linebacker Henry To’o To’o providing the narration.
To’o To’o closes the video by saying, “But at the end of the day, it’s nothing personal. It’s just business.” The Alabama linebacker also does a “tightening a tie” motion to close out the video. Keep that in mind because we’re coming back to it.
During the game, there is one play that Tennessee fans and former players are pointing to claiming a dirty move from To’o To’o. After Tennessee quarterback Hendon Hooker ran the ball up the middle, To’o To’o cleared the pile using his knee like a snowplow, connecting with Hooker on the ground.
What we doing here Henry T?
Just business? Nah. This looks personal. pic.twitter.com/cGK42SBzuX
— Jayson Swain (@SwainEvent) October 17, 2022
To’o To’o could also be seen jawing toward Tennessee tight end Jacob Warren after one play in the game as well.
So, then, Tennessee wins the game on a last-second field goal make and the cigar celebration ensues across the state – which included the Tennessee players.
During the postgame celebration, Tennessee posted a simple, yet effective troll on Twitter. With a tie emoji as the caption, Tennessee’s video celebration ends with Princeton Fant looking at the camera and saying, “It’s just business, that’s all it is” and does the exact tie hand gesture that To’o To’o did in his own video.
“It was definitely motivation,” Fant said on Monday about the video clip from To’o To’o. “It’s nothing personal at all. It’s just business. When you step on the field it’s business. Just not a lot of talking. We came there to handle business, we came there to come and win.”
Here’s a combination of the Alabama To’o To’o hype video and the Princeton Fant clip:
It’s just business that’s all it is @HenryTootoo1 👀 pic.twitter.com/rslwZvRDvf
— Big Bad Elijah Simmons Fan (@MFJunkyardDog) October 16, 2022
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Here’s the original celebration video from Tennessee Football:
— Tennessee Football (@Vol_Football) October 16, 2022
It doesn’t matter what sport or team you’re looking at – that’s some high-quality trolling right there.
Henry To’o To’o finished the game with eight tackles against Tennessee.
The then-No. 6 Tennessee Volunteers defeated the then-No. 3 Alabama Crimson Tide by a score of 52-49 on Saturday afternoon in Knoxville.
After the win, Tennessee bumped up to No. 3 in the country while Alabama slid down to No. 6.
