Kurtiss Riggs saw the clip, but he didn’t think anything of it.

You probably saw it, too, either at Bryant-Denny Stadium on Saturday night immediately before kickoff or when the video went viral on social media afterward.

It showed Kalen DeBoer as he led Alabama football through the tunnel to go face Tennessee. Thunderstruck played. DeBoer clapped, then he slapped the goalpost and yelled.

Let’s go!

“I mean, it’s the same person I know,” Riggs told AL.com . “It’s maybe a little bit of a different side of what other people have seen, but it’s not anything different from him.”

Riggs knows DeBoer better than most. Back in their playing days at Sioux Falls in the 1990s, Riggs was the quarterback and DeBoer was the receiver.

When DeBoer became the coach of Sioux Falls, Riggs coached q

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