Goalkeepers scoring by taking penalty kicks or free kicks aren’t that big a deal. Yeah, they still have to hoof it back if they miss, but eh?
Scoring from open play as a keeper, however, THAT’s more fun to see.
Still, I’d say that, in soccer, the amazing feats are the goals scored from distance. You always remember those. Like lobbing the 'keeper from past the half-way line, or sending a screamer into the net from more than 30 yards out. Kinda like Ronaldo did yesterday. 
Miki Ando landing a quadruple-salchow back in 2002. She’s still the only lady to have landed a quad-jump in competition, and she occasionally tries it every now and then (in fact, I think it was at this season’s Grand Prix Finale when she was just a half-turn from doing it again). Amazing jumper.
Yeah, that’s what I had in mind. And I’d never known about the Jimmy Glass play (which I will now think of whenever I hear the song “Jimmy Jazz” by the Clash).
I’ve always wondered if that counted as a pitch. Anyone know?
Nothing Christiano Ronaldo does can ever be truly memorable because it is automatically eclipsed by the fact that he’s such a jerk. So while yesterday’s goal wasn’t a bad effort, his spineless whining character automatically makes it ultimately forgettable 
Seriously though, while goals scored from a distance can be pretty cool, I find that rushes like you’ll find here are much more special (even if you’re English and happen to be on the receiving end of this little bit of magic, you’ll have to agree).
Actually, although I know everyone lionizes that bit of Maradona “magic”, every time I see it, I simply think that the English were lazy defenders. He goes by two English players who make no effort at tackling him at all, runs away from one defender who just assumes that his mates behind will take care of the deal, and isn’t really challenged until he gets to Shilton.
I actually prefer this mazy run to the Maradona “Goal of the Century.” Scored at a World Cup as well, but given no where near the press because it wasn’t scored by Mr. Hand of God. :rolleyes:
And then, there is this goal by Lionel Messi, which is superior in all ways to the Mardona goal. :eek:
Originally Posted by Bearflag70
NFL
Aside from spectacular athletic plays, I like unusual and trick plays:
Onside kick recovery
Free kick after fair catch
Drop kick
Safety
Fake kick
Fumblerooski
Running back pass option
Single wing
Hook and lateral
End around/ reverse
As well as the quick kick, I suppose
I want to see more drop kicks, I thought that was so cool when Doug Flutie kicked one for a PAT a few years ago.
If someone can access YouTube, there is that college game from a few years ago where the team one with a whole slew of trick plays. That was amazing.
Yes, that one hurt here in Montreal 
Though I’m still giggling over the awesomeness of this save. I love the full split plus belly-flop! We take what we can get!
Is it superior because he managed to imitate the first video perfectly? 
Bruce Grobelaar (sp?) scored a goal once from his own penalty area when he was playing for Liverpool. The other goalie wasn’t paying attention, and the ball travelled almost the length of the pitch in the air, and deflected slightly off a defender and rolled into the net. I think it was technically ruled as an own goal, but Bruce should have gotten credit for it.
I think my favorite scoring feats are the alley-oop in basketball and the overhead/bicycle kick in association football.
You linked to the same goal twice.
Oops. :eek::o
Try this goal by Messi. Wait for it; it shows the Maradona goal first from several angles, just so you can compare the two.
Bob Beamons 1968 long jump has to be at the top. Long jumpers slowly stretched the distance record. Usually by an inch or so. At the Olympics in Mexico City he fractured the record by almost 22 inches. It was passed 23 years later ,but is the second longest jump after 40 years. It was an athletic freak.
Mark Todd completed 2/3 of the Badminton **** Cross Country course (an event which is much more difficult than the Olympic level of Equestrian Eventing) with one stirrup when his broke on course. This is somewhat analogous to a skiier finishing 2/3 of the Giant Slalom with one ski - a unique and stunning combination of strength, balance, and skill that will probably never be repeated.
To give some context, the more straightforward jumps at Badminton 2005 looked like this:
http://www.badminton-horse.co.uk/GalleryFolder/2005/funnell_at_the_table.jpg
The more tricky ones were like this:
Drop into the lake, gallop through, and out again.
Ah yes. Boise State over OU 
A very nice little set to tie the game at the end, then win it in overtime.
THANK YOU! I brought up this exact point on another message board and had probably 150 replies of people telling me how stupid I am.
And then to have the player propose to his cheerleader girlfriend immediately after that :D:D:D
The single wing (aka wildcat) is a formation with plays run from it.
Inside-the-park homers happened semi-regularly at the Old-Old Yankee STadium (meaning, not just the park they played in before this year, but the park as it was before 1974, when they changed the dimensions).
Pitcher Mel Stottlemyre actually hit an inside the park grand slam! Serious, the bases were loaded, the outfielders were playing him shallow (as they would any pitcher), and he managed to get hold of a pitch and send it up the gap in “Death Valley” (left center), which reach 465 feet at its deepest point.
If you played a shallow center field and a ball started heading up that gap, it was a triple for sure.
Goalies scoring goals happens once in a while in hockey, too. Theodore, Brodeur, Nabokov, Osgood, Hextall, and a couple others have all done it. In addition, Slovakian goalie Karol Krizan playing the Swedish Elite League did it a couple years ago, there is excellent video here. Although my favorite feats are always goalies making unbelievable saves, like this one, where a shot bounces off the bar and Carey Price looks behind him, focuses on the puck, and wheels around to bat it out of mid-air with his stick and make the save. Amazing.
