Incredible Division 3 game finish

[Radii]

http://sports.espn.go.com/broadband/video/videopage?videoId=3083220&categoryId=2564308

15 laterals on the final play of the game to score a 61 yard TD to win.

[Young Drachma]

Gotta love D3. Great work though, because I was amazed they could keep the play going for that long.

[timmynausea]

Gotta love D3. Great work though, because I was amazed they could keep the play going for that long.

They actually said on ESPN that they work on that play every day at the end of practice. It showed.

[Young Drachma]

After watching it a second time, I think it does show pretty clearly that they practiced it. Good times.

[GoldenEagle]

If this was a soccer game, most American sports fans would be like "OMG, so boring!!!1"

But since it is American football, people are pumped up about it. It basically used the same principles as soccer. Move the ball in and out of space. Use the backpass and switching of the field to free up space.

[Poli]

That's my whatifsports.com team! Go Tigers!

[GreenMonster]

If this was a soccer game, most American sports fans would be like "OMG, so boring!!!1"

But since it is American football, people are pumped up about it. It basically used the same principles as soccer. Move the ball in and out of space. Use the backpass and switching of the field to free up space.

Except in Soccer you get a foul for tackling someone. In football thats your job. When you can run full speed, lower your helmet, and lay the lumber on another player, people will get into soccer.

[Critch]

It's like the end of a bad movie where the good guys have to score a touchdown with the last play to win. They do it like that and you think "well, that was unrealistic".

[GoldenEagle]

Except in Soccer you get a foul for tackling someone. In football thats your job. When you can run full speed, lower your helmet, and lay the lumber on another player, people will get into soccer.

Since that has worked so well with Rugby.

[GreenMonster]

Since that has worked so well with Rugby.

In America we love football. People in Europe, South America, around the world prefer Soccer. Countries all around the world enjoy Rugby. You make it sound as if Rugby is not a popular sport. I am sure the World Cup that just ended had huge ratings (the 2003 tournament had a cumulative world television audience of 3.5 billion). Soccer is a nice sport, but not an American tradition.

[Pumpy Tudors]

That looked like a rugby play. That was truly amazing.

[JonInMiddleGA]

That needs a Benny Hill soundtrack.

[Young Drachma]

It was rugby-esque. And I love how the one guy in the booth calling the game even said as they were lining up to the line of scrimmage, after the other guys said "Trinty has to score here or the game is over," the other guy goes, "start lateraling or something.."

That was too funny when you end up seeing what happened.

[GreenMonster]

That looked like a rugby play. That was truly amazing.

The quarterback completed a 25 yard pass and had a 25+ yard run, in the same play.

[sterlingice]

That needs a Benny Hill soundtrack.

Definitely

SI

[RedKingGold]

If this was a soccer game, most American sports fans would be like "OMG, so boring!!!1"

But since it is American football, people are pumped up about it. It basically used the same principles as soccer. Move the ball in and out of space. Use the backpass and switching of the field to free up space.

Soccer's gay.

[JeeberD]

That looked like a rugby play. That was truly amazing.


Exactly my thought as well. Simply stunning...

[GoldenEagle]

In America we love football. People in Europe, South America, around the world prefer Soccer. Countries all around the world enjoy Rugby. You make it sound as if Rugby is not a popular sport. I am sure the World Cup that just ended had huge ratings (the 2003 tournament had a cumulative world television audience of 3.5 billion). Soccer is a nice sport, but not an American tradition.

You were talking in the context of American viewers. The Rugby World Cup was not big in the US. So how exactly can you switch from American viewers to world viewers in your argument?

[Radii]

Dear lord. *hovers over Delete Thread Button*

[Pumpy Tudors]

I know it's been pointed out that these guys practice this play every day, but their practice is really obvious. When most teams are doing these lateral plays, it's pretty much one guy catches, one guy stays back to take a lateral, and the rest of the players try to get downfield and block.

In this video, though, every time one guy takes a lateral, another two or three guys slide back in preparation of receiving another lateral. It was really amazing. It's like everybody knew what their next assignment was. There was nothing haphazard at all about it. There were no unnecessary blocks, there were no penalties, there was seemingly nobody out of position. Like I said before, it was amazing.

[Schmidty]

Why are soccer apologists so whiney? (No offense GE)

[Radii]

IMO going into a soccer thread and bitching about how soccer sucks, OR going into a football thread and bitching about how US football fans are stupid not to appreciate soccer like GE did here, are both equally the height of asshattery.

I happen to enjoy both and is pisses me off when someone who hates soccer opens up a soccer thread just to bitch about it, but this is absolutely just as stupid.

I'm probably a little biased in this case b/c GE also ruins 50% of the college basketball threads on the board too(or embarrasses himself into hilarity, depending on your viewpoint I guess), but whatever.

[Huckleberry]

I would have played at Trinity if I could have qualified for more academic scholarship help (damn high school guidance counselor).

Anyway, this shows the #1 principle of the last second lateral play. Never go down with the ball. Every year we see multiple instances of a player being tackled with the ball on one of these final desperation plays. There is absolutely no excuse for that. No matter what you have to get rid of the ball. These plays should never end until the offense scores, the defense recovers a fumble (or catches a lateral), or the ball goes out of bounds. No excuse for any other ending.

[MJ4H]

I would have played at Trinity if I could have qualified for more academic scholarship help (damn high school guidance counselor).

ok more useless trinity trivia.

My band will be performing at Trinity's home stadium in December in a marching contest. k that's my contribution.

[Big Fo]

Why are soccer apologists so whiney? (No offense GE)

Why are soccer bashers so cretinous?

Edit: Not any poster in this thread, I mean more like Jim Rome or Frank DeFord, etc.

[Logan]

I can't believe the PBP guy was actually able to call out each guy's name during that whole thing.

[GoldenEagle]

IMO going into a soccer thread and bitching about how soccer sucks, OR going into a football thread and bitching about how US football fans are stupid not to appreciate soccer like GE did here, are both equally the height of asshattery.

I happen to enjoy both and is pisses me off when someone who hates soccer opens up a soccer thread just to bitch about it, but this is absolutely just as stupid.

I'm probably a little biased in this case b/c GE also ruins 50% of the college basketball threads on the board too(or embarrasses himself into hilarity, depending on your viewpoint I guess), but whatever.


It is not a really a football thread. I merely pointed out that it was similarly done to soccer and that I did not understand how American football fans were so critical of soccer when soccer is a game built out passing, just like this video.

I will alert the thread police. It seems every thread on FOFC these days has to stay on topic.

[JonInMiddleGA]

I can't believe the PBP guy was actually able to call out each guy's name during that whole thing.

I assume that was Trinity's regular home broadcast crew (I hope so, given their reaction at the end ;) and I had the strong feeling at least one of them knew pretty much what was coming.

At that level, there's a reasonable chance that he's an employee in the athletic department (often a multi-purposed SID) so he probably knows those kids about like SD knew the Tucker Tigers. Spend enough time with a team, you can almost pick them out by body type, size, etc. kind of like being able to know kids on a little league team even from a distance, etc.

[Logan]

I assume that was Trinity's regular home broadcast crew (I hope so, given their reaction at the end ;) and I had the strong feeling at least one of them knew pretty much what was coming.

At that level, there's a reasonable chance that he's an employee in the athletic department (often a multi-purposed SID) so he probably knows those kids about like SD knew the Tucker Tigers. Spend enough time with a team, you can almost pick them out by body type, size, etc. kind of like being able to know kids on a little league team even from a distance, etc.

I hear you, but I meant more along the lines of stamina. I would've given up after the first 5 laterals.

[Drake]

I agree with Logan, though. I was almost more impressed with the PBP guy than with the play itself. Just top notch work.

[JonInMiddleGA]

I hear you, but I meant more along the lines of stamina. I would've given up after the first 5 laterals.

Heh. I guess it's just perspective. Don't get me wrong, I though the guy did darned well with what had to be a mess to keep track of (especially from the often crappy pressboxes in smaller venues, no idea about that one specifically though). But from a stamina standpoint, that would have been easier than a long basketball sequence with a couple of fastbreak oriented teams who didn't get a stoppage for several minutes. Now those used to wind me even in my much younger (and a lot less smoking) days.

[Pumpy Tudors]

Shit, I could've made a PBP call like that for Seton Hill University. That reminds me to audition for them next time there's an opening...

Edit: I mean that I could've done it because I would recognize pretty much the entire offense even if they didn't have numbers on their jerseys.

[Butter]

In this video, though, every time one guy takes a lateral, another two or three guys slide back in preparation of receiving another lateral. It was really amazing. It's like everybody knew what their next assignment was. There was nothing haphazard at all about it. There were no unnecessary blocks, there were no penalties, there was seemingly nobody out of position. Like I said before, it was amazing.

There is one point though at which the ball carrier runs right by an opposition player who assumes the play is over, or at least has given up on the play. That guy wakes up, this play never quite reaches its climax.

It is also amazing that there were no forward laterals in this play as well. Everything was done as well as could be expected.

[Young Drachma]

The PbP guy was a 20-year old student who almost didn't even go to the game.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/30/sports/ncaafootball/30trinity.html?ref=sports

[TargetPractice6]

Heh, Jonathan Wiener.