You've never seen this before, unless you watch soccer, then you see an Italian taking a theatrical dive is all too often.  This example by AC Milan's Alberto Gilardino is what Jackie Chiles would term, "egregious, preposterous and outrageous": 

Wouldn't it be cool if John Madden said, "that fully deserves censure if not ridicule" after John Runyan attempted to leg-whip an unsuspecting defensive end?   Anything would be better than, "Brett Favre is a great football player because he plays football the right way, and he's good with the football in his hands be cause he's a great football player." -KD