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re: Underrated plays in sports history
Posted on 6/15/22 at 10:24 am to BeachDude022
Posted on 6/15/22 at 10:24 am to BeachDude022
Not really a play but ended up about plays. The Mel Blount rule changed the game of pro football forever.
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Posted on 6/15/22 at 10:26 am to VADawg
Asante Samuel drops an interception during the Giants' final drive in the first Super Bowl against the Pats. If he catches that there's no Tyree catch and Burress game winning TD.
Posted on 6/15/22 at 10:29 am to VADawg
Was watching that game when O'Neill did that, Reds lost a couple pitches later on a passed ball
Posted on 6/15/22 at 10:35 am to yaboidarrell
As far as missed opportunities, Lewis Billups of the Bengals dropped a Joe Montana pass in the end zone in the 4th quarter of Super Bowl XXIII. If he intercepts that pass (and he definitely should have) the Bengals almost certainly win the game and Montana’s mystique takes a hit.
This post was edited on 6/15/22 at 10:37 am
Posted on 6/15/22 at 10:41 am to dukke v
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The Lindsay Scott 80 yard TD catch and run against FLA in 1980.
im certainly in a georgia sports bubble, but maybe until this year (and maybe still) this is basically unanimously considered the best play in program history and is talked about every 5 minutes
Posted on 6/15/22 at 10:50 am to rockchlkjayhku11
Oh I understand from a UGA standpoint. But not nationally. I mean billy cannons punt return against ole miss in 59 is know more on a national level than Scott’s TD.
Posted on 6/15/22 at 11:04 am to yaboidarrell
How about the end of the Big 12 Championship last year
Posted on 6/15/22 at 11:29 am to BeachDude022
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Ray Wright catch was the spark that started the fire.
He made that catch in the 3rd inning. LSU didn’t get another hit from the end of the 2nd to the 8th. LSU was getting killed at the plate which is what made the comeback so improbable.
Posted on 6/15/22 at 11:34 am to Globetrotter747
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As far as missed opportunities
Nelson Cruz missing that fly ball up 2 with 2 outs and bases loaded in 9th inning of game 6 (2011 World Series).
Catch it and Series is over. Texas is World Champs.
he missed, Cards tied it then won in Extras and won the series in game 7.
Posted on 6/15/22 at 11:47 am to Nutriaitch
1. Game 6 1975 World Series, Bernie Carbo hit a 3 run HR tie the game up and make Fisk’s 12 inning homer possible.
2. Game 2 1984 NBA Finals, Gerald Henderson steals James Worthy’s pass to tie up the game. If he doesn’t make that play, Lakers win and go back to LA up 2-0 and we don’t get a 7 game classic with the Celtics winning a title.
3. Dee Ford jumping offsides in the 2018 AFC title game. Penalty negates a pick that ends the game. Brady gets a second life and wins the game in OT.
4. Darwin Cooke taking the ball from Clemson at the goal line and going 99 yards to the house. Opened up a close game and WVU puts 70 on Clemson. Vernables takes over the defense after that and Clemson has massive success.
2. Game 2 1984 NBA Finals, Gerald Henderson steals James Worthy’s pass to tie up the game. If he doesn’t make that play, Lakers win and go back to LA up 2-0 and we don’t get a 7 game classic with the Celtics winning a title.
3. Dee Ford jumping offsides in the 2018 AFC title game. Penalty negates a pick that ends the game. Brady gets a second life and wins the game in OT.
4. Darwin Cooke taking the ball from Clemson at the goal line and going 99 yards to the house. Opened up a close game and WVU puts 70 on Clemson. Vernables takes over the defense after that and Clemson has massive success.
Posted on 6/15/22 at 11:54 am to VADawg
Posted on 6/15/22 at 12:04 pm to yaboidarrell
TJ Yeldon making a good run, in the 2013 Iron Bowl, to stop the clock with 1 second left. If he doesn’t make that good of a run, they go to OT, or throw a Hail Mary, and Chris Davis doesn’t make one of the best plays ever, in CFB history.
Posted on 6/15/22 at 12:25 pm to sta4ever
In the 1981 (season) NFC championship game, Danny White made a hell of a throw to Drew Pearson on the last drive that likely would have resulted in a TD if not for a horse collar tackle by Eric Wright. If Pearson scores that’s one less Super Bowl for the 49ers and no one remembers The Catch by Dwight Clark.
This post was edited on 6/15/22 at 12:26 pm
Posted on 6/15/22 at 12:45 pm to dukke v
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Oh I understand from a UGA standpoint. But not nationally. I mean billy cannons punt return against ole miss in 59 is know more on a national level than Scott’s TD
oh this is awkward, but.....no, no it's not
Posted on 6/15/22 at 12:55 pm to yaboidarrell
Dirk’s fadeaway with Shaq all over him in game 5 of the 2006 Finals. Refs then bail Wade out next play to give Heat the win in the most rigged Finals and possibly series in NBA history.
Posted on 6/15/22 at 1:05 pm to rockchlkjayhku11
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I mean billy cannons punt return against ole miss in 59 is know more on a national level than Scott’s TD
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oh this is awkward, but.....no, no it's not
yeah, it probably is.
it was between 2 undefeated top 3 teams.
defending national champs.
clinched a Heisman
Posted on 6/15/22 at 1:17 pm to DJ3K
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I've never understood the hate that Jeter gets for this play. First of all, it's a pretty incredible play considering the ball was dying and wasn't gonna reach home in time to get the runner. But there wherewithal to snag it and make the back-handed toss perfectly so the runner could be tagged is just a good play. And smart baseball as well.
But all of that being said, it was the playoffs. And the Yankees were down 2-0 to Oakland in a best-of-five series. They were only up 1-0 in that game, and it was the 7th inning. So it preserved the lead in a "win or go home" situation very late in the game. So by all accounts, it is a VERY clutch play as well.
Yet all I ever see is people hating on it for being massively overrated. And I just don't get why. Is it because people hate Jeter? Or because it's the Yankees? Everything about that play combined together easily makes it a great play, and one of the greats.
Or is it just being downvoted in here because the thread is for underrated plays and people don't think it is..?
Posted on 6/15/22 at 1:25 pm to CocomoLSU
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Yet all I ever see is people hating on it for being massively overrated. And I just don't get why
I think it's mostly b/c Jeter shouldn't have been anywhere in the vicinity of that ball, right? I think someone else in the thread even said, he was supposed to be covering 3rd, IIRC.
Posted on 6/15/22 at 1:33 pm to SlowFlowPro
That Burrow delayed QB draw against bama in the 4th quarter
Posted on 6/15/22 at 1:40 pm to Nutriaitch
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a good throw (instead of airmailing the cutoff) guns Giambi by half a mile. Giambi slides and he’s safe. Jester was supposed to be there as the 3rd cutoff man. Him and Torre even admit that’s how it practiced. Typically Jeter would go to 3rd with throw, but you got slow arse Giambi out of gas and sputtering to the plate.
Right, but those things didn’t happen. It was an amazing play.
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