Actually that was a touchdown and counted, submitter, as the football broke the plane of the goal line.

But all was lost on the next play, as the extra point was no good.

Uh, laterals. Not forward passes.

ahhh....football. The fact that it's football season can single-handedly be blamed for why I spend less time here at M&C.

I love football with every ounce of my being.



anyhow...

I really don't like plays like this...they are school-yard at best. I will say that it's quite the shock they actually got the ball in this way, as the Saints have been able to do little else all season, and will likely continue to be the piece of shit team they really are.

This is similar to the big game between Berkeley and Stanford in 1982. Stanford had just scored and pretty much won the game, and there were only four seconds left. The time cannon went off right after the kick off, but the Berkeley players realized the ball was still in play. They lateraled it back and fourth about five times, with a Berkeley player finally slamming into the end zone in the midst of the Stanford band, which had rushed onto the field when they thought the game was over. Berkeley won. Twenty years later, the student store still sells "The Play" t-shirts, which show the crazy Xs and Os diagram of play, with a little sideways musical note where the Berkeley player knocked down a Stanford trombone player.

Anybody watch rugby? Laterals are one of the few things allowed. That and kicking forward. Still fun to watch it in football, though