Watch ESPN’s 30 for 30 episode on this one play. Well, couple plays, but it’s with all the culprits: Kelce, Foles, Burton, Clement, Pederson.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVYa-GE9T6k
Go to 4:00, if it’s not already lined up. (15 secs commercials). Great explanations-- sort of-- how they got there. On 4th and 1, Eagles didn’t think they could run it in. SO… try this dinger. 
Redskins@Cowboys, 9/19/2005, Dallas led the entire game up until about 4 minutes left in the 4th quarter, when this happened:
Oh, that’s a lovely one, I hadn’t seen that in a long time. That sent me looking for Kenny Houston vs Walt Garrison:
Billy Hatcher’s home run in the bottom of the 14th of game 6 of the 1986 NLCS, off the left field foul pole in the Astrodome. To this day I’m convinced that if only there had been a man on base, making that home run a walk off, then the Astros would have won game 7 and then beat the Red Sox in the World Series.
Thanks for sharing that clip. I have no particular fondness for the football team from DC, except when they beat the Cowboys. Particularly in Dallas. On Monday night.
The Mets were indeed desperate to NOT face Mike Scott in game 7.
Now, ever since then the Mets have sworn up and down that Scott was scuffing baseballs to get more movement out of his splitter. In an ESPN documentary Ed Hearn, the Mets backup catcher, showed a ball supposedly handled by Scott with a quarter-sized abrasion. He claimed all or most of the balls pitched by Scott had nearly identical markings, the Mets having collected fouled off balls to examine.
Irrespective of “scuff-gate”, I agree the Mets’ chances in game 7 would not have been good.
From memory “Arranca por la derecha el genio del futbol mundial, va dejando el tendal, va a tocar para Burruchaga, siempre Maradona, Genio!, Genio!, Genio! Goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool, quiero llorar!..”
(The English subtitles are not very good, but passable)
That game was horrible. And the big play wasn’t the deep bomb to Moss, it was earlier in the game when Moss scored a touchdown on a 4th-and-15, a shorter pass. Had Dallas made the stop then, it’s almost certainly a Cowboys win. And, indirectly, this loss eventually led to the Cowboys missing out on the playoffs by season’s end. However, it’s possible that without this game, Romo would not eventually have become the starter next year, so there was a silver lining.
You have to wonder if it happens more frequently than we realize or if it’s purely coincidence that one of the top 5 pitchers (and an argument can be made for number 1) of all time was the one who vaporized a bird.
You must be thinking of a different game, look at the score. It’s 0-13, Dallas, with 4 minutes left in the 4th. How could Moss have scored earlier?!
Right, but with 3:55 left in the game, Moss scored a TD on a 4th-and-15 from the Dallas 38 yard line. So it was earlier in the game, albeit just 1:20 or so, and it was a ‘shorter’ pass than the 70-yard bomb that tied the game with 2:35 left.
Either way, this was during the years in between the Aikman and Romo eras. In my book those losses don’t count 
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I doubt it, the circumstances that all had to come together at the same time had to happen perfectly, to the extent that it shouldn’t have even happened once.
Though it’s probably not a coincidence that it happened during spring training, where (presumably) you had a smaller crowd and fewer “special effects” (to entertain the crowd) that would scare a bird away.
Maybe it has happened long ago, though, and just not recorded (and certainly not caught on camera).
Two come to mind. First, Michael Thomas’ “it’s all up for grabs now!” scoring for Arsenal vs 'Pool to win the league. The other is The Play, which ensured that John Elway would not beat Cal in his four years at Stanford.
So sad to see what a horrible person you are. You hide it well, mostly. But that gave it away. Ach!
I’ve rewatched the recap of the 2001 Indians/Mariners game when the Tribe came back from 12 behind. I only watch it with our amazing radio guy Tom Hamilton.
I don’t usually re-watch sports recaps at all except for maybe some plays a day or two after the games (I watch/listen live almost every single game). But I have watched Jose Ramirez knock down Tim Anderson at least a dozen times. With the radio call, natch, because it’s the best.
Most folks that follow the NFL have both heard of and seen the famous “Immaculate Reception” play where Steeler (Franco Harris) caught a pass that had bounced backwards off the receiver about 10 yards. Harris made the unexpected rebound catch inches from the ground and proceeded to run it in for what ultimately proved to be a game winning touchdown. I watched it on tv as a kid in 1972 and have probably seen it at least a few dozen times over the years.
Here’s what the folks on TV saw:
However, it’s worthwhile to see this play from a non-televised angle:
Like Railer13 said, the Cowboys had the (R-Words) on the ropes by leading 13-0 in the fourth quarter when Brunell chucked up a 38-yard touchdown to Moss on a 4th-and-long. If the Cowboys’ defense had broken up the pass, it’s almost certainly game over for Washington. Instead, Washington cut the deficit to 13-7.
Then, on the subsequent drive, Brunell also ran for 27 yards on a 3rd-and-29. Another nightmare play. Which then led to that deep bomb to Moss for the second touchdown.
Ugh. And it was only the second Cowboys game that I had ever watched on television in my life. It was actually the identical opposite of a Cowboys outcome from years earlier, where Dallas trailed Carolina 0-13 but then scored on two deep touchdown passes to win 14-13.
Actually, that was the controversy at the time. Had the ball indeed bounced off the receiver and then been caught by Harris, it would have been an illegal reception, because of the rules in force at that time. 1972 NFL rules stated that a ball deflected off an offensive player could not be legally caught by another offensive player. Instead, the officials ruled that the ball had been deflected off Raiders defender Jack Tatum, so Harris caught the ball legally.
And Raider haters everywhere celebrated.
I may have paid for my hubris today!