I am a sucker for Option Passes and Fake Punts and Field Goals.
I use to love when Megget would get the ball, fall back and pass it to Baker or another receiver. I miss when the 2nd or 3rd QB was the holder for most teams and fakes kicks were more common.
And you know what? They ran that against Auburn in…eh… 2001 or 2002… and it was even better. Can’t find the video though, but it shows a tight camera view of David Greene’s “walk”. Shockley used to pull it off too, but nobody could do that casual “I handed the ball off, not worried about getting killed by some linebacker, nothing to see here” walk like Greene.
I LOVE COUNTERS. Get everyone moving one way, have the HB stutter like he’s going in the same direction, then reverse field with a pulling guard to lead the way, maybe even a WR cracking back. A well executed counter is the most beautiful running play in football.
I’m going to throw myself into the camp of watching a lineman somehow come up with an interception and ambles 50 yards downfield for a TD.
Incidentally- Chargers ran a legal variant on the Fumblerooskie a few years ago called a “Bumarooskie” Very similar in style. FB lines up just over the RG, Quarterback in a shotgun takes the snap, hands it to the FB between his legs and then runs right with the RB. FB then takes off to the left. Since there is no intentional fumble, the play is legal.
I never really understood why it was made illegal. Do you know?
Favorite play in football? That would be the right or left back overlapping into the corner to put a perfect cross in front of goal, where the striker nods it back to an onrushing middie, who slams the gift straight into the back of the net. Beauty in motion.
intentional forward fumbles are illegal- therefore the fumblerooski is illegal. Technically if the QB turned around and placed the ball on the ground behind him, this wouldn’t be illegal, but would also be pretty ill advised.
Properly considered, intentional forward fumbles are pass attempts that become incomplete passes as soon as they hit the ground.
There is no rule in college football against “intentional forward fumbling”, only a stipulation that fourth-down and PAT fumbles are dead when recovered by a teammate in advance of the spot of the fumble. A fumble isn’t a pass unless the ball is “thrown”, which it isn’t on a fumblerooskie play (it gets placed on the ground by the QB).
The fumblerooskie is illegal because a special rule was put in place against it, prohibiting the advance of a “planned loose ball in the vicinity of the snap”. This was done because the play was becoming overly successful. It was virtually impossible to defend.
Anyway, my favorite play is the one that I don’t see, because producers of football telecasts haven’t figured out that when a team runs a hurry-up offense, you can’t show fucking replays without missing half of the fucking game.
I still stand by my “Statue of Liberty” play.
…but I have to admit a good play-fake like that is f*cking SICK! :eek:
I’m a big fan of the sack or stuff in the end zone for a safety. There’s just something I love about safeties, probably that they’re so rare. Watching Addai get stuffed by the Bears defense last week was probably my favorite play of the week.
Daryle Lamonica sailing the ball 50 yards downfield to set up George Blanda for a game-winning kick.
If I have to stick with a drawn-up play, I’ll go with sailing the ball 50 yards downfield.
I’ve never heard this. I’ve always heard that the reason the fumblerooskie got outlawed was because it was an absolute nightmare for officials. They would get just as flummoxed as the cameramen.
That was Auburn in '01, and it was the one I was trying to find. I was sitting in my gawd-awful seats that were so low you couldn’t hardly see over the players on the sideline. I got a fantastic look at that play, though.
That may well have been part of it, too. For the last year in which the fumblerooskie was legal (1992), the NCAA put in a requirement that the offense notify the referee before they ran one. In the 1992 Holiday Bowl, the University of Hawaii got a penalty for “running a fumblerooskie without notifying the referee”, which was good for a chuckle. (Except probably to Hawaii, because of course the 'rooskie went for a touchdown–didn’t they all?–which got nullified.)
The Counter trey. The Hogs upfront blocking the way for the Diesel (and Hall of Famer) John Riggins. It’s a beautiful thing.
Halfback option pass…to the QB. Although it’s surprising how often you see the QB well-covered when someone attempts this.
I used to love a play Cal would run in the 80s when Joe Kapp coached…it starts looking like a toss sweep to the tailback, with everyone leaning to the right – except the toss was “intercepted” by a WR on an end-around going left. If you’re just watching the snap and the ball, it’s like the WR comes out of nowhere (and usually the defense reacts the same way.)
That was absolutely beautiful.
I feel so sorry for the girl at the end of the second clip. I mean, not too sorry, but I’ve been there. Too many times.
You’re right, that’s a great play, and I say that as a Notre Dame fan whose team was victimized by that play by Alabama in the December 1973 Sugar Bowl game.