Yup, Andrew Luck Forgot How to Spit

Andrew Luck did much and more during the Indianapolis Colts' 24-13 AFC playoff victory over the Denver Broncos on Sunday.

He upended the ESPN punch bowl, proved there can only be one Highlander and applied a Freudian coup de grace to the trumped-up father-son storyline scribes have been pushing between him and Peyton Manning since 2012.

So preoccupied was Luck with the task of untethering his legacy from Manning that he forgot how spitting works.

Cameras flipped over to the Colts quarterback early in the fourth quarter, just in time to catch him in the midst of a wonderfully botched attempt to spit. The Big Lead's Michael Shamburger crafted a GIF of the moment. The sight will stay with you through today and into forever.

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As you'll note, Luck didn't spit as much as push a wad of saliva out of his mouth and into his neck beard. He noticed the failure to launch, experienced brief regret and quickly returned his attention to the matter at hand.

While this may be considered another defeat for Luck's constantly harried neck foliage, I believe it serves as a testament to his poise. Great quarterbacks keep a short memory, and a lesser man would've broken and attempted to paw the spittle from his chin.

Luck stood firm. He lobbed an incompletion, metabolized the mistake and moved to the next play. After all, Luck is no longer a rookie. He knows his mouth becomes a soap bucket car chamois during games.

GIF via Cork Gaines (h/t NextImpulseSports.com):

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Here's that moment again, from another angle:

Enjoy your lunch.

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