The Kentucky football seniors got to participate in an honored tradition at practice Thursday in Birmingham, Ala., the team’s final full day of practice before the BBVA Compass Bowl and the end of the season: the “last tackle.”The team’s freshmen, sophomores and juniors line up in two lines to form a runaway to a tackling dummy. Having just undergone their final practice in pads in their Kentucky careers, the seniors run down the line and tackle the dummy for their “last tackle.”Senior Mike Hartline, who was at practice Thursday (more on that in a separate post), did participate in the drill. Although he was not in pads and could not practice with the team, he was the final Wildcat to tackle the dummy and broke the team down in its final huddle.Check out video of the “last tackle” below:

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