# Favorite Youtube Sports Highlghts **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [November 28, 2008, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-youtube-sports-highlghts/474797 "2008-11-28T14:46:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-youtube-sports-highlghts/474797/81 "2008-12-18T01:56:42Z")
> [@Mince](#): > > Certainly a neat little pitch, with a **very** generous strike call to boot. We’ve talked about that pitch before. As I recall, it was a set-up. Some sort of exhibition game or something. ---
**Author:** ![Crawlspace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Crawlspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crawlspace)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2008, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-youtube-sports-highlghts/474797/82 "2008-12-20T06:37:00Z")
The Flip — [http://mlb.mlb.com/media/video.jsp?mid=200807143134880](http://mlb.mlb.com/media/video.jsp?mid=200807143134880) No reason he should have been there. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2008, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-youtube-sports-highlghts/474797/83 "2008-12-20T08:18:34Z")
> [@Crawlspace](#): > > The Flip — [http://mlb.mlb.com/media/video.jsp?mid=200807143134880](http://mlb.mlb.com/media/video.jsp?mid=200807143134880) > > No reason he should have been there. Without even looking at the video, there’s no reason he shouldn’t have slid. He deserved to get nailed like that, even if it was an amazing play. ---
**Author:** ![jaydotbeedot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/54ee81/32.png) [@jaydotbeedot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaydotbeedot)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2008, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-youtube-sports-highlghts/474797/84 "2008-12-20T22:36:42Z")
As a Miami Dolphins fan I may be a little biased, but I consider [this play in the 1981 playoffs](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvmFczOcUK0) to be the greatest play I’ve ever seen – even though it didn’t decide the game, and Miami eventually lost. Saving that play for that moment is coaching genius, and executing it was improbable. I’d never seen it tried before, and have never seen it work since. (The clip, from the original broadcast, is long, but the first couple of minutes sets up the context. It would be a fun play on its own, but it achieves greatness base on the moment and situation in which it happened.) ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2008, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-youtube-sports-highlghts/474797/85 "2008-12-20T23:01:08Z")
> [@jaydotbeedot](#): > > As a Miami Dolphins fan I may be a little biased, but I consider [this play in the 1981 playoffs](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvmFczOcUK0) to be the greatest play I’ve ever seen – even though it didn’t decide the game, and Miami eventually lost. Saving that play for that moment is coaching genius, and executing it was improbable. I’d never seen it tried before, and have never seen it work since. > > (The clip, from the original broadcast, is long, but the first couple of minutes sets up the context. It would be a fun play on its own, but it achieves greatness base on the moment and situation in which it happened.) You’ve never seen a hook and ladder pass work since? I don’t think you’ved watched much football, then. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![jaydotbeedot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/54ee81/32.png) [@jaydotbeedot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaydotbeedot)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2008, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-youtube-sports-highlghts/474797/86 "2008-12-20T23:45:02Z")
> [@DSYoungEsq](#): > > You’ve never seen a hook and ladder pass work since? I don’t think you’ved watched much football, then. :eek: Never seen it since in the NFL. If it has, I missed it. I have zero interest in college football. ETA: It’s “hook and lateral.” ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2008, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-youtube-sports-highlghts/474797/87 "2008-12-21T06:59:49Z")
> [@jaydotbeedot](#): > > ETA: It’s “hook and lateral.” Commonly referred to as the Hook and Ladder. > **[Hook and ladder (football)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hook_and_lateral)** > > The hook and lateral, also known colloquially as the hook and ladder, is a trick play in American, Canadian football and indoor American football. > The hook and lateral starts with the hook, which is where a wide receiver runs a predetermined distance, usually 10 to 20 yards down the field, and along the sideline, and "hooks in" towards the center of the field to receive a forward pass from the quarterback. Another offensive player (a wide receiver or running back) times a run so that he is at fu... It looks like it’s been used 3 times in important college games in the past 3-4 years, but the page doesn’t mention any other NFL usages. ---
**Author:** ![TPWombat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbce88/32.png) [@TPWombat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TPWombat)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2008, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-youtube-sports-highlghts/474797/88 "2008-12-21T11:32:22Z")
[This Murray Walker tribute](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlQ9wEP8pUg) Best Sports Commentator Ever. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tof](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@The\_Tof](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tof)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2008, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-youtube-sports-highlghts/474797/89 "2008-12-21T17:02:00Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > Commonly referred to as the Hook and Ladder. > [Hook and ladder (football) - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hook_and_lateral) > > It looks like it’s been used 3 times in important college games in the past 3-4 years, but the page doesn’t mention any other NFL usages. Off the top of my head I can think of a couple of times in the last few years… Of course Boise St vs. Oklahoma in the Fiesta Bowl ([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4s8vdzYwFU](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4s8vdzYwFU)) which also contains the Statue of Liberty play 🙂 Also off the top of my head I remember watching Minnesota Vikings run this a few years ago. (OK- as I think about this it was more than a few years- because Randy Moss was the initial receiver. I don’t know who the cutting across receiver was.) Of course, it sounds like I’m reaching since I have one that has to be at least 5 years old in the NFL. But I know that you see this play come up every so often. That said- That Miami game is classic. And I agree with the original poster- that play right there was a great move by Miami in one of the greatest games ever. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2008, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-youtube-sports-highlghts/474797/90 "2008-12-21T17:18:38Z")
[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5I9KaXpfrw) I just love this - it’s so random. ---
**Author:** ![jaydotbeedot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/54ee81/32.png) [@jaydotbeedot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaydotbeedot)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2008, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-youtube-sports-highlghts/474797/91 "2008-12-21T20:29:37Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > Commonly referred to as the Hook and Ladder. [Shula says ‘no.’](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOsl3g7Ps54) ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2008, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-youtube-sports-highlghts/474797/92 "2008-12-21T20:59:25Z")
> [@jaydotbeedot](#): > > [Shula says ‘no.’](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOsl3g7Ps54) Can’t argue with that. It’s like that scene in [Annie Hall](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--9jn8zntF0) where you get the definitive answer in the right place at the right time. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-youtube-sports-highlghts/474797.md?page=4)