It was supposed to be Diego Pavia\u2019s night. The Vanderbilt quarterback had just delivered perhaps the greatest performance in school history, obliterating Kentucky 45-17 and rewriting the record books while casually sauntering out of the game as if he just led his team to practice instead of delivering SEC-level devastation. And then college football had other plans. While Pavia was laying it to the Wildcats, the internet had just laid it to Pavia\u2019s mother, Antoinette Padilla.<\/p>\n
And honestly? It was spectacular.<\/p>\n
The Record That Should Have Been the Headline\u2026 But Wasn\u2019t<\/p>\n
Now let\u2019s focus on some actual football.<\/p>\n
Pavia had 33 out of 39 pass attempts for 484 yards and scored five touchdowns; to have some fun, he rushed for 48 additional yards and one score. All this despite not finishing the last series of plays.<\/p>\n
His 484 yards broke a Vanderbilt single-game passing record from 44\u00a0years ago, which had been set by Whit Taylor in 1981. In all ways, he delivered a game fit for the Heisman Trophy.<\/p>\n
However, every time he dropped the dime to the field, ESPN brought their camera right back to his mom.<\/p>\n
Enter: Antoinette Padilla, Internet Icon<\/p>\n
Antoinette Padilla, amid all the Vanderbilt fans wearing jerseys and sporting black boots, resembled a reality television game-day debbie. She was living life to its full bluster as a football-loving mom, to be dancing and cheering and just being there in general, and just that act alone had social media go completely bonkers.<\/p>\n
ESPN just couldn\u2019t resist. Every big play?<\/p>\n
Cut to Mom.<\/p>\n
Another touchdown?<\/p>\n
Cut to Mom.<\/p>\n
Commercial break?<\/p>\n
MOM TIME.<\/p>\n
They had noticed. And they had thoughts. Loud ones.<\/p>\n
Social Media Reaction: The Memes Got \u2018Merciless\u2019<\/p>\n
Some folks were thrilled. Some were shocked. Some were merely pretending to be shocked. Everyone had their entertainment. Some of these responses to God\u2019s love:<\/p>\n
\u201cGet this family out of college football immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDo yall think Diego is embarrassed about his mom\u2019s dress and behavior? To be fair to his mom, she rocks it well, but just think about it if it<\/p>\n
were your mom out there.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIf I ever caught my mom acting like a hussy in the stands\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2018\u2018Insane behavior from your own mom\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cthis b*tch is like temu Stiflers mom. 3 out of 10 at best. Vols by 100\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cQB1\u2019s mom is a groupie yeah I\u2019m out on vandy\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI see why his mom is single. Never had \u2018those party years\u2019 and now he\u2019s doing something like this.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI am a strong believer in \u2018you do you,\u2019 as long as it ain\u2019t bothering me. If this were MY momma\u2026 boy I would be mad lol\u201d<\/p>\n
Are they harsh? Of course they\u2019re harsh! Did that discourage the internet? Nope.<\/p>\n
Padilla quickly became the beloved figure of the game, a viral personality in this never-ending SEC drama.<\/p>\n
In other news, Theo Von was\u2026 Escorting Her onto the Field?<\/p>\n
To add some additional chaos to this tale, comedian Theo Von became part of it.<\/p>\n
And it looks like Von was seen accompanying Padilla onto the field after the game. The internet quickly brought up how last October, he crashed a podcasting appearance<\/a> Pavia was making just to get his arm around Pavia\u2019s mom.<\/p>\n According to The Sporting News<\/a>, Von confirmed to ESPN\u2019s Cole Cubelic that he had placed a bet with the quarterback of his team:<\/p>\n If Vanderbilt had won an important game, Diego would fix him up on a date with his mother.<\/p>\n And it just gets even better.<\/p>\n Next came Pavia\u2019s tweet:<\/p>\n \u201c\u2018What @TheoVon forgot is, I said it was a deal if and only if he told @tatemcrae to lemme take her on A1 date in Nashville. Twitter, make it happen.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n The man is negotiating like an SEC quarterback who knows what he\u2019s worth.<\/p>\n While whether it actually occurred is unclear, one thing Von did make clear to AL.com<\/a> is that:<\/p>\n \u201cMy goal is, I would like to marry a nurse one day. I don\u2019t even know if I\u2019d do it. I like being his friend. I don\u2019t want to end up being like his stepdad or something.\u201d<\/p>\n Padilla is a nurse. The plot thickens.<\/p>\n The Human Side: The Reason Diego Loves His Mom So Passionately<\/p>\n A sweet piece of context surfaced after all the memes had died down. In The Athletic\u2019s<\/a> interview with Pavia, it wasn\u2019t his mother\u2019s boots or screen time that were praised, but her strength.<\/p>\n \u201cMy mom, she\u2019s hard hat, lunch pail. She grew up with 13 brothers and sisters in a single home.\u201d<\/p>\n The article also mentioned that it never dawned on Diego as a kid that whenever his mother claimed she wasn\u2019t hungry and only had a little food from their dinner, it was actually a time she allowed her kids to eat instead.<\/p>\n It\u2019s just this kind of history that makes a college campaign a Hollywood movie. Padilla isn\u2019t just the viral video mom. She\u2019s a survivor. A provider. A mother who fought tirelessly for her son to be allowed to stand out there.<\/p>\n And if she decides to dance in black boots on national television? She\u2019s earned it.<\/p>\n The post Diego Pavia\u2019s Mom Antoinette Padilla Goes Viral Again After ESPN Can\u2019t Stop Filming Her During His Historic Game<\/a> appeared first on Where Is The Buzz | Breaking News, Entertainment, Exclusive Interviews & More<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was supposed to be Diego Pavia\u2019s night. The Vanderbilt quarterback had just delivered perhaps the greatest performance…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[160302,17356,352,399,398,396,397,99,48252],"class_list":{"0":"post-309888","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-antoinette-padilla","9":"tag-diego-pavia","10":"tag-espn","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-ncaa","13":"tag-ncaa-football","14":"tag-ncaafootball","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-theo-von"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}