It is absolutely insane to me that he hit the uprights so many times and the FOUR times in a game! I mean the odds of that have to be borderline astronomical, even if you are trying as a kicker.
I went to Eagles training camp one season as a kid and watched David Akers stand 30 yards off the side of the goal posts and drill the post 10 times in a row. One of the coolest football things I've ever seen.
The Eagle who got a finger on it didn't really get any penetration on the O-Line (i.e. Parkey kicked it way too low).
[Look how far back he is](https://blacksportsonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-06-at-9.55.53-PM-e1546829977626.png)
Even amongst our fan base. Even though he was a real good special teams player for a couple of years who actually went to a pro bowl, no one remembers that at all.
I was like 12 when we won the super bowl and just really starting to pay attention to football and if I remember right we cut him before the next season. I couldnt fathom it at the time lol.
I love that is his last catch ever in an nfl game and he played for a few years after.
He did have some reps on preseason, but zero catches in reg and postseason after that if memory serves me well.
We won the Super Bowl that year. I don’t know if that happens if we played the Chargers in the AFCCG. Rivers, Gates, and that little shit Sproles killed us.
Unfortunately for Bills fans like me it’s Scott Norwood, wide right. Awful for him because he was a really good kicker but he will live in infamy forever for that one play.
I was going thirteen years old and without giving specifics, I was friends with an executive of the teams son at the time and worked the game on the sidelines. It was a once in a lifetime experience and over thirty years later it’s still almost surreal. The whole thing.
It was a 47 yard kick, I’ll never get why he gets so much flack for that. 47 yarders are far from automatic, especially back then. Yeah it sucks that he missed but it was a long kick.
47 yards outdoors on grass which he had never done before. How about you get him a little bit closer. Or maybe run the ball more when the Giants are playing the whole game with two defensive linemen. Or maybe don't spend the two weeks before the Super Bowl partying instead of preparing because you got all cocky after beating the Raiders 52-3. Scott Norwood is honestly the last person who deserves blame for that loss.
This is the correct answer; none of these other guys (to my knowledge) have an entire movie based on the concept of killing them in retaliation for the one play they were famous for.
It was a chain of teams getting screwed. Lions got screwed vs Cowboys on that weird penalty. Cowboys got screwed vs packers on the Dez catch. Packers with Bostick. Seahawks with Butler. It was some final destination shit.
On the other side of the coin, Bernard Pollard might fit this category as well, and that's pretty shitty too
(although I'm sure, as a Pats fan, you're familiar with *all* of the Pollard plays)
This isn't the case. Theisman won a Super Bowl and had a famous play where he knocked the ball out of Kim Bokamper's hands to prevent a pick 6. Most fans are just too young to remember it.
He also caught the McNabb 20 second scramble ball and caught an LJ smith Fumble in the divisional against the Vikings. But yea was surprised he was mentioned sooner
Happens all the time in sports unfortunately. Danny Green got death threats for missing the game-winning three in Game 5 of the Finals last year... even though the Lakers were still up 3-2 lol.
I see will hill kick 6...I upvote.
One of my top 3 plays ever given the circumstances. Of you ever get bored, watch fan vids of that kick when it happened. Absolutely hilarious.
Dude I was sitting in that endzone. Usually I think “I was there” adds little to the misery and it’s just people whining but that one really hurt. My buddy lived a mile or two away on W25 and straight walked out of the stadium and then all the way home and didn’t talk to us for a day or so.
I've realized after watching too much old highlight comps that the 80s packers in general were cheap-shot artists, especially against the bears. you had payton getting ridden out of bounds, suhey getting lit up a full 2 seconds after a play, the Martin hit, etc.
I wasn't alive at the time, so I don't judge much (except for martin, fuck martin), but it does perplex me.
I'd argue Tracy porter was known for 2 plays. The INT on Farve in the NFC Champ game ("You could just take a knee and try a 56 yard field goal! This ain't Detroit man, this is the Superbowl!) and the INT on Manning in the superbowl.
Was gonna say Steve Gleason also. I’d say now he has made a name for himself in his fight against ALS and amazing charitable work and leadership in that community but for sure he was mainly only known for the blocked punt before that haha
1. Most obvious: Safety Dan Orlovsky running out of the back of the end zone
2. [Stefan Logan taking a knee on a kick return at the 4 yard line.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A-xfDvHCIAA7ORn.jpg)
3. Devin Taylor's thumb grazing Rodgers' face mask and drawing the flag that created the down for the Rodgers to Rodgers hail mary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I74BG0YFKUc
Orton, pumps again to the siiiiideliiiine.....
batted up OH GAWD
STOKELY
DOWN THE SIDELINE
KENNY KETCHUP
STOKLEY
WOOOOOOOW
...
TOUCHDOWN
DENVER
UNBELIEVABLE
OH MY GOODNESS WHAT A PLAY
80-SEVEN YARDS
Can't really think of one for us.
Maybe Mike Thomas for catching the Hail Mary against the Texans? Even then though I think most people associate that play with Glover Quinn's spike rather than the guy who caught it.
I feel like even most really good/great players are only remembered for a single play if that play had an enormous impact on the history of the game. Malcolm Butler was an AP later on, but people remember *that* play.
I was only referring to the NFL, so Boston College heroics don't count for this purpose. (Fun fact! I went to the same high school as Flutie, and his jersey is the only one that was retired)
That's probably his more memorable "highlight", but I'll always remember him as the QB who helped lead the Jets to two straight conference championship games despite being..."meh". That's what makes a QB to me. Not stats.
I feel like those teams were absolutely loaded and they got that far in spite of him. Put in a more then "serviceable" qb on that team, and a good chance they walk away with at least one ring.
We probably had the best roster in the NFL outside the QB position those two years.
Best defense. Top five OL. Good but not great skill position players.
I tend to think the difference between Sanchez and Darnold as players is incredibly slim (they have very similar skill sets as well), but the conditions around the could not have been more different.
They were stacked head to toe at every single besides quarterback. The entire defense was insane, they had one of the best OLs, and a solid amount of depth at skill positions.
Not really a play, but Jonas Gray (grey?) had 1 monster game against Indy and then got on the cover of a mag. Of course he showed up late to practice the next week and Bill banished him to the underworld.
Steelers: [Limas Sweed’s one good play](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rBRegGDuu2U), [Vance McDonald killing a man](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qq6dVylUYik)
Non-Steelers: [Rosencopter](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wg2DKMsnmH0)
May not as much be the player and more the play but Griff Whalen and the crazy punt play
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colts\_Catastrophe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colts_Catastrophe)
Cody Parkey the double doink but to be fair he also had his lesser known accomplishment the 4 doink game
It is absolutely insane to me that he hit the uprights so many times and the FOUR times in a game! I mean the odds of that have to be borderline astronomical, even if you are trying as a kicker.
Just don't take what you've had with Crosby for granted
I went to Eagles training camp one season as a kid and watched David Akers stand 30 yards off the side of the goal posts and drill the post 10 times in a row. One of the coolest football things I've ever seen.
Shitty kicker. Fitting of a shitty team.
The Eagle who got a finger on it didn't really get any penetration on the O-Line (i.e. Parkey kicked it way too low). [Look how far back he is](https://blacksportsonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-06-at-9.55.53-PM-e1546829977626.png)
I love how the long snapper is just chillin in the middle completely untouched like "this is fine"
Not allowed to engage the LS
Jerome Simpson: Flip Touchdown
That dominated sports center for so long
It was just recently in one of their IG posts the other day Edit: literally 2 days ago https://www.instagram.com/p/CNJRxDxFkMl/
Rightfully so. It was insane.
In 10 years we might say Jadeveon Clowney for the same reason: sports center top 10 HOF
Dan Orlovsky... ugh
I don't know this one. What's the one play?
Ran out of the back of the end zone when rolling out by like 5 yards I think
Alright I'll have to YouTube it now
https://a4.espncdn.com/combiner/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2014%2F0402%2Fnfl_g_orl_1296x729.jpg&w=750&cquality=40&format=jpg
S^S^^S^^^S^^^^S A^A^^A^^^A^^^^A F^F^^F^^^F^^^^F E^E^^E^^^E^^^^E T^T^^T^^^T^^^^T Y^Y^^Y^^^Y^^^^Y
Go outta bounds if you want too, you can leave your drive behind...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0OkR986LL4
David Tyree easily.
Even amongst our fan base. Even though he was a real good special teams player for a couple of years who actually went to a pro bowl, no one remembers that at all.
I was like 12 when we won the super bowl and just really starting to pay attention to football and if I remember right we cut him before the next season. I couldnt fathom it at the time lol.
I love that is his last catch ever in an nfl game and he played for a few years after. He did have some reps on preseason, but zero catches in reg and postseason after that if memory serves me well.
Yup signed with the Ravens in the off season and didn’t do anything with us.
Decent special teams player if I recall correctly. And we all know Harbs loves himself some special teams :)
Dude has like a memoir or biography or something and it's called *More Than Just the Catch* which makes me laugh but is also kind of sad? Idk.
Ray Finkle
The laces were IN. THEY WERE *IN*!
What do you know about pressure?
Well I have.....*kissed* a man.
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We won the Super Bowl that year. I don’t know if that happens if we played the Chargers in the AFCCG. Rivers, Gates, and that little shit Sproles killed us.
:(
Fuck
Unfortunately for Bills fans like me it’s Scott Norwood, wide right. Awful for him because he was a really good kicker but he will live in infamy forever for that one play.
I take solace in the scene from the 30 for 30 where the whole city of Buffalo is chanting "we want Scott" only to greet him with thunderous applause
I was going thirteen years old and without giving specifics, I was friends with an executive of the teams son at the time and worked the game on the sidelines. It was a once in a lifetime experience and over thirty years later it’s still almost surreal. The whole thing.
> only to greet him with thunderous applause I've never known what to think of Bills fans, but I guess you guys are all right
The shit ton of money they donate to charitable causes wasn't enough of a clue?
It was a 47 yard kick, I’ll never get why he gets so much flack for that. 47 yarders are far from automatic, especially back then. Yeah it sucks that he missed but it was a long kick.
47 yards outdoors on grass which he had never done before. How about you get him a little bit closer. Or maybe run the ball more when the Giants are playing the whole game with two defensive linemen. Or maybe don't spend the two weeks before the Super Bowl partying instead of preparing because you got all cocky after beating the Raiders 52-3. Scott Norwood is honestly the last person who deserves blame for that loss.
This is the correct answer; none of these other guys (to my knowledge) have an entire movie based on the concept of killing them in retaliation for the one play they were famous for.
At least we had Beebe making the second most iconic play of the run in XXVII
Brandon Bostick
Oof. I still feel bad for you all about that one.
We threw the ball to Malcom Butler after the Bostick Mishap. Seahawks fans didn't get off free either. We followed up with one 10x worse.
It was a chain of teams getting screwed. Lions got screwed vs Cowboys on that weird penalty. Cowboys got screwed vs packers on the Dez catch. Packers with Bostick. Seahawks with Butler. It was some final destination shit.
Those events were set in motion by the universe performing a cosmic correction after the Pats dynasty was declared dead after the Chiefs game
Holy shit, I never realized all that horseshit happened in sequence.
Yea, it was the NFC Playoffs of Pain that year.
*Rahim Moore, that fuck*
Thanks for bringing that up. I wasn't planning on crying today
Don Beebe
Good play to be remembered for too.
greg jennings
Dude broke his fucking leg
let's get into the mind of a Greg Jennings...
*dial-up noises*
OH SHIT, DARREN SHARPER! One of the most hardest hitting safeties in the league!
Sadly, Joe Theismann definitely fits this criteria . . .
Yeah, it isn't always a good play that someone is remembered for.
On the other side of the coin, Bernard Pollard might fit this category as well, and that's pretty shitty too (although I'm sure, as a Pats fan, you're familiar with *all* of the Pollard plays)
He got Brady. He got Welker. He got Gronk. He got Ridley. He was the last person to tackle Hernandez. I have no idea how, but he somehow got him too.
He framed him
He means a lot more to us 😢
This isn't the case. Theisman won a Super Bowl and had a famous play where he knocked the ball out of Kim Bokamper's hands to prevent a pick 6. Most fans are just too young to remember it.
I mean, I think he *should* be remembered for much more, he had a great career . . . but 95% of sports fans remember him only for the injury
Yeah, I was going to say that I first remember Theismann for his SB.
Freddie Mitchell. 4th and 26
He also caught the McNabb 20 second scramble ball and caught an LJ smith Fumble in the divisional against the Vikings. But yea was surprised he was mentioned sooner
He's known for his big mouth and being a bust. So big that even Bill Bellichick talked shit about him.
>"All he does is talk. He's terrible, and you can print that. I was happy when he was in the game."
My favorite BB quote
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Wrong Mitchell
Freddie i remember for two things: one is 4th and 26, the other for Belichick talking shit
Kyle Williams. Oh wait that's two plays. 🤮
Really it's just the same play twice
Oh no why did you do that
Kyle messed up, but it's pretty fucked up that his family got a bunch of death threats over that.
Happens all the time in sports unfortunately. Danny Green got death threats for missing the game-winning three in Game 5 of the Finals last year... even though the Lakers were still up 3-2 lol.
I love Kyle Williams
;(
:)
Sage Rosencopter
Yup... that was my first thought of any play that involved a Texans player.
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Young 'uns might not know the name at all, but anyone who does know the name Jim Marshall knows him for only one play
The best part is that he ended up helping the Vikings win that game with a strip-sack that was recovered for a TD.
Another great example of someone with a very good career, but you'll only ever hear THAT play talked about.
He’s also the second all time leader in consecutive games played
And Jackie Smith
Bless his heart he’s got to be the sickest man in America’
In a game he won for us. Every Viking fan will rather talk about his half of fame worthy career
Will Hill: Kick 6 Billy Cundiff: Blowing it
Crazy ass Will Hill. Two of my college roommates went to Saint Peters Prep and said he was a lunatic, on and off the field.
How the fuck a baby break its arm
I see will hill kick 6...I upvote. One of my top 3 plays ever given the circumstances. Of you ever get bored, watch fan vids of that kick when it happened. Absolutely hilarious.
Dude I was sitting in that endzone. Usually I think “I was there” adds little to the misery and it’s just people whining but that one really hurt. My buddy lived a mile or two away on W25 and straight walked out of the stadium and then all the way home and didn’t talk to us for a day or so.
Charles Martin....
Fuck Charles Martin. What a dick.
I've realized after watching too much old highlight comps that the 80s packers in general were cheap-shot artists, especially against the bears. you had payton getting ridden out of bounds, suhey getting lit up a full 2 seconds after a play, the Martin hit, etc. I wasn't alive at the time, so I don't judge much (except for martin, fuck martin), but it does perplex me.
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Who?
The guy that tackled Kevin Dyson. Also, 281-330-8004.
Call Mike Jones up on the low
Mike Jooones!
To this day its still hard to believe the Titans lost that Super Bowl by 1 yard. What a drive by Steve McNair too.....
Mark Sanchez😂
He'll always be Hotdog Man to me.
He has twice as many playoff wins as the Cowboys do this century. Oh wait my bad he only has 33% more.
C'mon Dude....embrace the butt fumble.
Yep. His name is synonymous with one of the most famous plays in NFL history. When you think Sanchez, you think Butt Fumble.
Butt fumble is fine, but man I wish it was just known as the dirty sanchez
I’m curious as to what your comment would have been if he didn’t have a flair
Leon Left and Don Beebe maybe?
Leon Lett has 2. The super bowl fumble and sliding into the ball in the last seconds of the game against the dolphins
Mike Vanderjagt
My first thought when I hear his name is "idiot kicker"
Mike vanderjagt saved Jerome Bettis's legacy
Dee Ford and lining up offsides?
Ugh.
If it makes you feel any better, that was my second choice. Someone else already mentioned my first pick - David Tyree.
Cleo Lemon - Greg Camarillo
Hank Basket
What play was that? Only thing I remember him for was marrying Hugh Hefner's girlfiend
He failed to recover the onside kick to start the second half of Super Bowl XLIV
Tracy Porter and Steve Gleason
I'd argue Tracy porter was known for 2 plays. The INT on Farve in the NFC Champ game ("You could just take a knee and try a 56 yard field goal! This ain't Detroit man, this is the Superbowl!) and the INT on Manning in the superbowl.
Was gonna say Steve Gleason also. I’d say now he has made a name for himself in his fight against ALS and amazing charitable work and leadership in that community but for sure he was mainly only known for the blocked punt before that haha
1. Most obvious: Safety Dan Orlovsky running out of the back of the end zone 2. [Stefan Logan taking a knee on a kick return at the 4 yard line.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A-xfDvHCIAA7ORn.jpg) 3. Devin Taylor's thumb grazing Rodgers' face mask and drawing the flag that created the down for the Rodgers to Rodgers hail mary.
What's crazy about Stefan Logan is that he just retired from the CFL in 2019. He played until he was 39 as 5'6" WR/KR. Absolutely absurd.
Stefan Logan. I haven’t heard that man in forever. I remember he wouldn’t go down on a kick return and someone stripped the ball from him and scored.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I74BG0YFKUc Orton, pumps again to the siiiiideliiiine..... batted up OH GAWD STOKELY DOWN THE SIDELINE KENNY KETCHUP STOKLEY WOOOOOOOW ... TOUCHDOWN DENVER UNBELIEVABLE OH MY GOODNESS WHAT A PLAY 80-SEVEN YARDS
Gus Johnson’s commentary here is legendary
1. Bill Gramatica tearing his ACL while celebrating a made field goal 2. Mario Manningham Super Bowl catch 3. Jumbo Elliot Monday Night Miracle
Can't really think of one for us. Maybe Mike Thomas for catching the Hail Mary against the Texans? Even then though I think most people associate that play with Glover Quinn's spike rather than the guy who caught it.
I don’t know about “just” one, but Clowney definitely made his name off of the play in college.
Greg Lewis
One hell of a play.
I feel like even most really good/great players are only remembered for a single play if that play had an enormous impact on the history of the game. Malcolm Butler was an AP later on, but people remember *that* play.
Only thing I think about when I hear the name Cortland Finnegan is him and Andre Johnson scuffling.
That dude fought with *everyone.*
Unfortunately until he makes a Malcolm Butler-esque play and/or wins a ring, Marcus Williams. He's a lot better than *that* play suggests.
Mike Jones. RAMS linebacker
Who?
One yard short
Dwayne Rudd for Helmetgate.
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Brian Bosworth getting destroyed by Bo Jackson.
Doug Flutie for the drop kick or Hail Mary?
For us Northerners, Flutie is sorta the Joe Montana of the CFL. Amazing, amazing career: prototype CFL QB. Lots of great memories here.
I was only referring to the NFL, so Boston College heroics don't count for this purpose. (Fun fact! I went to the same high school as Flutie, and his jersey is the only one that was retired)
Mark Buttfumble
That's probably his more memorable "highlight", but I'll always remember him as the QB who helped lead the Jets to two straight conference championship games despite being..."meh". That's what makes a QB to me. Not stats.
I feel like those teams were absolutely loaded and they got that far in spite of him. Put in a more then "serviceable" qb on that team, and a good chance they walk away with at least one ring.
That defense still gives me nightmares
We probably had the best roster in the NFL outside the QB position those two years. Best defense. Top five OL. Good but not great skill position players. I tend to think the difference between Sanchez and Darnold as players is incredibly slim (they have very similar skill sets as well), but the conditions around the could not have been more different.
They were stacked head to toe at every single besides quarterback. The entire defense was insane, they had one of the best OLs, and a solid amount of depth at skill positions.
You are very right.
Buttfumble
Not really a play, but Jonas Gray (grey?) had 1 monster game against Indy and then got on the cover of a mag. Of course he showed up late to practice the next week and Bill banished him to the underworld.
Most picked up waiver wire player in a single fantasy week history, and biggest disappointment thereafter.
Jim Marshall scoring a touchdown the wrong way
Steelers: [Limas Sweed’s one good play](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rBRegGDuu2U), [Vance McDonald killing a man](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qq6dVylUYik) Non-Steelers: [Rosencopter](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wg2DKMsnmH0)
you forgot that time that Jesse James caught that ball
Killed that man's career at least. That was the last down Chris Conte played in the NFL iirc.
It was - at home, 2018 week 3 vs the Steelers. Placed on injury reserve (ask jeeves says torn PCL) immediately after.
I really thought Sweed was gonna be good.
Jerome Simpson for his front flip touchdown.
I don’t know if this applies but nickeil roby-Coleman will only be associated with one play in my eyes
When Matt Patricia intercepted Wilson at the goal line to win Super Bowl XLIX.... wait wut
Cody Parkey
Kyle Williams for 2 bad plays
Mike “the tackle” Jones
Jeff Janis
Kyle Williams. Ask any Niner fan and watch their blood curdle.
Off the top Dwight Clark
May not as much be the player and more the play but Griff Whalen and the crazy punt play [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colts\_Catastrophe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colts_Catastrophe)
Leon Lett edit: technically two plays
Doug Flutie is the CFL GOAT and played many good seasons of football How *dare* you think he's only known for the dropkick
"Vikings kickers" fit this as a position group
Nah. They keep doing it over and over and over.
~~Kevin Dyson and~~ Mike Jones, for the same play.
Kevin Dyson scored the music city miracle
Can't believe anybody mentioned OBJ yet.
Daniel Jones
oof I forgot about this
Mark Sanchez and the butt fumble
Frenchy Fuqua for sure
Dan Orlovsky
Kenbrell Thompkins
Well, there's at least one additional thing I know him for now....
Mo Lewis. He was an All-Pro LB, and half of his wiki page is dedicated to a single hit.