Can anyone answer this NFL trivia question?
 

(I don't know the answer)

What is the longest 4th down conversion in NFL history?


Some friends and I were wondering about this the other day, and I can't seem to find an answer. Off the top of my head the longest I can think of was the 4th and 26 by Philly in the playoffs a couple years ago.

Surely there's been a 4th down Hail Mary, which would technically qualify, right?

:mad: thanks

yeah, you would have to think so. Was that crazy Saints lateral play against the jaguars a few years ago on 4th down?

edit: might not matter. how often is a team put in a situation where it is 4th and 26+ ?

No.

4TH QUARTER:
15:00 NOR - TD, JEROME PATHON 21 YARD LATERAL FROM DEUCE MCALLISTER (PAT FAILED)
Drive:2 plays, 75 yards in 0:11

This part still makes me laugh every time I think about it.

All I can find is college stuff. Hell, even 4th and 26 stuff says "believed to be the longest playoff 4th down coversion."

Yeah, my boss at the time was a Saints fan. We kept bringing that up for about 3 months, just cause it was so damn funny.

Every article you can find mentions it being the longest conversion in playoff history, which seems to imply that there was a longer one in the regular season (or that nobody can find the answer).

What about that Vikings/Cardinals game that the Vikings lost in the last game of the 2003 season, costing them the playoffs? Didn't McCown have a 4th-and-20-something with 4 seconds left and somehow the Vikings gave up a TD pass? If that wasn't 4th-and-26, then it was 4th-and-25.

The Cardinals effed that up pretty good. Everyone knew they had a hard on for Fitz, likely they could have traded for whomever wanted Eli, still got a top 5 pick, and still got Fitz and more picks. But, no, they had to catch that stupid pass.

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It's obviously longer than 4th-and-25.

dola -

I just realized that the above quote is probably referring to the Eagles/Packers conversion as the #1 from that season.