It was one of those days when it’s a minute away from snowing. And there’s this electricity in the air, you can almost hear it, right? And this ball was just… dancing with me. Like a little kid begging me to play with it. For fifteen minutes. That’s the day I realized that there was this entire life behind things, and this incredibly benevolent force that wanted me to know there was no reason to be afraid. Ever.
Video’s a poor excuse, I know. But it helps me remember… I need to remember…
Sometimes there’s so much beauty in the world I feel like I can’t take it… and my heart is going to cave in.
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You should hold a contest with contestants supplying the voice over for this clip. This play could become a cult classic, the Rocky Horror of the NFL.
Washington tailgate parties can have teams of drunks replaying it before every game; just make sure the most shit-faced guy in the parking lot gets to be the kicker. Heck, determining who is the drunkest could be a whole other contest.
I kept waiting for Benny Hill and a bunch of half naked chicks to start running around on the field.
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Did someone say Yakety Sax? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEIWD9_OQ4Y
This play can work, actually. In fact, we ran this play against what was at the time a powerhouse in TN 5A football, or as much as any Tennessee HS team could be called a powerhouse. We ran it three times on one drive. It was the only drive that we scored a TD on. However, he should’ve said fuck it and left the proper offensive personnel in instead of asking his punter to pass with no protection at all.
@Reggie Bush’s Pimp: in the Redskins playbook, the PR does not drop a log at midfield. Antwaan fair-catches it.
American Beauty.
I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a more intriguingly bad football play in my life.
But fuck it. That was hilarious.
Seriously, to echo another commenter, this play is not unknown in Texas High School Football. When I was on the Freshman Squad it was our two point conversion play and it worked way more often then not. You can sceme like 3 plays out of it (speed options, pass plays) and have the qb read and audible. Of course I think it only works against high school freshmen, but still…. (freshmen team won district that year, never made the playoffs under our “conventional” varsity coach)
I kind of wish the Redskins had scored on that or the Giants had run it back for a score. Eitherway the beauty would be enhanced if one team got burned for 6 by that dumbass play.
Seriously, you couldn’t get Colt Brennan some playing time?
I want to see Zorn pull more of this “Fuck You, Dan Snyder” business. Punt on first down. Take play requests from the stands. Run a 2-9 defense. Wear a Redskins bathrobe and take a nap on the heated bench. Don’t let Haynesworth play, but make him the clipboard-wielding bouncer for the Gatorade table. See, mean-spirited, juvenile, futile pranks are what makes life worth living.
if i was dan snyder, i would have fired zorn at halftime. worst thing i ever saw.
Dammit Skins, you never go full retard.
The Redskins just need to remember that “It’s never too late to get it back.”
/Starts playing The Seeker
//Actually liked American Beauty
That was a great movie quote. The Goonies was instrumental in making me the man I am today.
You know what this video needs? Some Wackety Sax.
Suzy Kolber to Jim Zorn: “I just wanna fist you!”
/fix’d
@AMM. Umm, no. No, it would not have worked. He got behind the defense at the last possible second because the defense was already coming forward to pick the pass off.
someone actually managed to get behind the defense. If Smith made a better throw it would have worked.
@Georger they’re saving the annexation for the ‘boys who have no chance defending it since ed o’neill retired as head coach
/knew it was going to be amazing when i heard multiple skins fans complaining about how there were more giants fans than skins fans before the game
//tried to not heckle the poor bastards
//failed
Remarkably, Easterbrook doesn`t call this the single worst play of the season so far. I guess joke plays run by condemned head coaches don`t count.
In other news, Garo Yepremian thinks that kicker has a great arm.
This is why the NFL is awesome. This is the same team that almost beat the Saints. Playing against the Giants, who got trampled on by the Saints. Who have beaten the Cowboys twice this season, even though they’re the first team to beat the Saints.
Basically what I’m saying is F the Saints. Oh, and the NFL is awesome, yeah whatever.
Holy Shit watching this ALMOST makes me feel better that I am a Packer fan.
/Still bitter about that Steelers game
/Fuck you Mason Crosby
0:21 “this is embarassing…” Watching it? Playing it? Announcing it?
I bet the Zorn had no decision in that play. I bet it was whats his face pulling a bingo ball out of a box and matching it up with an old school John Elway’s QB play from the video game, yelling BINGO!, and sending the play in. Zorn let it go the first time, timeout called, dipshit called the same play, Zorn said ‘fuck it, everyone knows I’m not calling the plays, let it run again’; and voila, we get the awesomeness of that play.
Perhaps next time they run that play Hunter will just bicycle-kick the ball behind him.
Seems like the net yardage would be about the same.
Suzy Kolber to Jim Zorn: “I just wanna kiss you!”
Should have run the Annexation of Puerto Rico play, the Giants haven’t seen it since they were little, no doubt they would have been caught off guard.
But where were the clowns? Things like this just don’t happen in real life without a little car and a bunch of clowns spilling out of it. And Yakety Sax.
That was the 1st time Jaws and Gruden have ever been speechless. I hope more teams run this play on Monday night.
@85 – For the offense you mean.
It looks like the play was supposed to go to the guy who snapped the ball. When they shifted the line, the tight end became the center, and then he ran a delayed route to the right side. Of course, since the Giants noticed this when they CALLED TIMEOUT, they had someone covering him and sent three guys to obliterate Hunter the Punter so he just chucked it up to the left side.
/Redskin fail is the funniest fail of all
@Mortimer: Agree in part, disagree in part. I agree that it was retarded. I disagree that in any time, place, or dimension THAT sack of shit play could have ever resulted in a touchdown.
@Stu — yea, at least most of the time. The WR (or RB, I guess) should be off the line a little bit behind all those blockers on the one side. The QB should immediately throw the ball on a rope to that guy, who hopefully picks his way down field behind his blockers. Of course, when the guy throwing the ball is the punter AND he tries to loft it 15 yards downfield, the thing is doomed to fail. Moreso than usual, I mean.
We had a formation like this in High School because we were largely inept at running real formations. We called it DeSoto Fire although I’m not sure why. Even then, as a bunch of 15 year old dipshits we knew this thing was doomed. Glad Zorn thought otherwise, that’s fine television.
Question for Redskins fans: Was this play worse than the Garo Ypremian debacle in SB VII?
@Craig: Oh, so it was supposed to be a quick screen and Hunter wasn’t supposed to just chuck it into the endzone. Well why the hell didn’t whoever called that play tell him that?
This is the way I envisioned it…phenomenal
“OK, fellas…here’s what we’re going to do…we’re going to run the same exact shift…yup, again…hunter, you’re going to stay in…here of max protect?…we’re gonna go sans protect…yup, that’s right…no blockers…just like when you were a kid…zero Mississippi…at the snap they’re going to come bursting through the line at ya…so just throw that thing up in the general direction of all those guys on the left…will they be open?…hell no, of course not…they’ll have like 7 guys over there…it’ll be a sh*t show…but just try it…it’ll be fun.”
You can tell that Jaws and Gruden didn’t grow up playing high school football in Texas — I can’t believe they didn’t recognize that monstrosity as the ol’ “swinging gate” play. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swinging_Gate_%28American_football%29
Who cares? They’re out of the playoffs and were down by 24. I’d rather see something that, while retarded, could result in a touchdown, than a pointless field goal. Also, I agree that he should have motioned the kicker to the right. That would have made the play at least 14 times more likely to succeed.
On a side note, WHY THE FUCK DID EVERYONE JUST STAND THERE WHEN THE BALL WAS SNAPPED???!?!
Jesus. I mean…
Jesus.
Note to the Redskins: You don’t have to use Nixon’s plays anymore.
I was driving home from work and listening to the game. This play utterly confused me, and I don’t think Marv Albert and Boomer Esiason knew any better either. Since it was halftime, I flipped to the local sports yap affiliate and heard within seconds “Mark this evening–mere minutes ago, the Redskins made history by running the single worst play in NFL history.” Nice to see the media outlets all over this.
shit, the broncos fell for it.
Peter King attributes this whole thing to Belichick’s courage.
This play brought to you by the Dead Tree Crew.
Would love to read Zorn being KSK’d. During his press conferences, he sounds like he’s snorting crushed up happy pills and downing liters of Mountain Dew. Translation: High as a F’n kite.
If he is in fact giving up, oh please lie down for my Boys next wknd. I have a feeling, though, Redskins will come out strong.
Where in the playbook is that play? The last page? Second to last page? What comes after it? The PR dropping a log at the 50-yard line to shock the opponents? Sending in a team of midgets in small uniforms to run plays since they’re so small, it’ll be hard to tackle them!
Maybe Zorn has been semi-hired as head of scouting for the NY Mets and needs to get fired so he can officially join them. Look out next week for when he wears a flesh toned bodysuit and runs across the field in the middle of a play…
God in Heaven, the next two weeks are going to be non-stop fail and trickery and delicious viewing pleasure isn’t it? We’re going to have offensive linemen throwing passes, cornerbacks on the defensive line, kickers returning kicks, plays being called by children, half-time speeches being given by somebody who can’t actually speak…aw, Jesus it’s going to be good.
HE WAS WIDE OPEN!!!!!!!!!!
(I don’t know who exactly, but somebody surely was.)
/failed “One man O-Line” experiment
Zorn actually cracked a couple of smiles when asked about the play during the postgame interview. AT THAT VERY MOMENT, I knew he didn’t give a shit anymore and was just daring Bruce Allen and Danny-boy to just fire him now and get this sham of a farce over with.
/Still hilarious
//Please run that play next week Zorny
///Has anyone checked on the Maj this morning?
sometimes, in the depths of despair as a chiefs fan, i can always look to the redskins and realize 1) we beat them and 2) its a buttfucking train wreck. thanks DC!
So this is what it feels like…when doves cry! *tear*
It’s glorious *wipes away single tear*
The Washington Wizards are currently having a contest where a fan gets to draw up an in-bounds play, and the team will actually run it during a game. Clearly, this play was a dry-run for that contest.
Either that or Graham Gano will be attempting a 76-yard field goal next week.
As a die hard Giant fan I began to pity the Redskins in this game. It started with the epic beating Campbell took, carried on to this monstrosity and ended with that play when Mario Manningham ran back and forth behind the line of scrimage like he was on that vibrating metal table with the felt football.
Damn, I feel bad for Hunter The Punter on that one. Zorn really is just giving DC the finger and playing like he’s down by 50 in Madden and is just going to do crazy shit for two weeks, like goal-line blitzes on his own 20.
This was like that scene in Revenge of the Nerds when the nerds purposefully let go of the rope in the tug-o-war match against the Alpha Betas. Except that the Nerds eventually won the Greek Council, of course.
As a Redskins fan, I blame Vinny Cerrato for that play.
You’re all missing the brilliance of this play. Just imagine the sleepless nights Redskins future opponents will suffer preparing for such trickeration. Next week when they unveil the “everyone gather in a circle after the kickoff and we’ll stuff the football inside some guys shirt and all break in random directions” play. Hilarious? Maybe. Genius? Definately.
The best part is that they got into formation, sent the line out to the right, timeout was called as the defense adjusted and then the skins said…..”ah fuck it – it’ll still probably work”
Moments like this make you think, “Absolutely I could be a NFL coach, those fuckers aren’t that smart.”
Y’kno, if punter Smith doesn’t panic as soon as he sees 3 Giants in his face and chucks it directly left to the kicker, the play MAY have a chance. MAY have a chance.
Either way, a very good day to be a Giants fan.
Also, I think Steve Young figured out weeks ago that Matt Millen is the worst football commentator ever, and is simply waiting for his fellow commentators to catch on. Which they never will.
Oops. Should have read the other comments first.
That was Zorn giving Danny the middle finger on national television, but it wasn’t so obvious that Danny can fire him for cause.
Not that Danny won’t try.
They should’ve run that play four straight times on the next series.
Hunter Smith was a QB in high school, actually. Looks like Punter was the correct career choice.
I think Snyder called that play.
I like the fact that Steve Young lost his composure over this play in the post game show.
I think this was Zorn’s final fuck you to Snyder. Dude knows he’s fired. He can’t burn a message into the field, so he had to go with this.
Epic. Fale.
After seeing that play, I feared for Maj’s well-being.
I only hope someone on the sidelines said, 80s sitcom style, “That idea’s so crazy it might actually work.”