If you’re a Vanderbilt football fan — or if you’ve watched a single Vanderbilt football game this season — there’s a good chance you’re familiar with quarterback Diego Pavia’s mom.

Antoinette Padilla has been in the stands supporting her son all season, and the TV cameras have a funny way of finding her. As the Commodores took down Kentucky, 45-17, on Saturday, November 22 to improve to 9-2, ESPN cut to the stands frequently as Padilla, clad in cowboy boots, danced, cheered and set social media ablaze.

While she has plenty of fans, it doesn’t appear that ESPN college football analyst Joey Galloway is one of them.

“Is there a camera on Pavia’s mother the entire game?” he asked fellow ESPN analyst Kirk Herbstreit on the Monday, November 24, episode of their “Nonstop” podcast. “I’m just wo

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