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[K-Mack]

How many laterals were there on that play?  Could it have been a record for most laterals on one play?

I'd be surprised if records were kept on that, but I can't think of anything I've seen with more successful laterals ending in a game-winning TD.

[Ron Boerger]

That was TigerDad who posted that?

Yep.  TigerDad's son had, I believe, his best game at RB as a Trinity Tiger today.  He's scored more but getting 120+ yds against a defense allowing under 80 yards per game to entire teams was a plus. 

The primary guy on the call was a TU sophomore Jonathan Wiener (per MYsa.com).  The other voice you hear was none other than our own historymajor. 

[sfury]

Written words can do nothing to adequately describe the insanity of that play. The call was good. And it wasn't hyperbole when he went from speculating about whether it's the craziest finish in d3 football, to the history of football. I thought it was going to end that first time when they got a little break and were going down the  near sideline, but then the play went all the way back over the other one.

[Ron Boerger]

ROFL!! It (or the better quality original) was on sportscenter AFTER the top ten plays of the day.

Of course the announcers called Trinity "Mike Dubose' team" but other than that they seemed as amazed as we all were. 

[sfury]

They played it again about five minutes after the first showing. Van Pelt was speechless. Then it led off their College Football final show.

[Ron Boerger]

ESPN made the higher-quality video they showed on the air available on their website, too:

http://sports.espn.go.com/broadband/video/videopage?videoId=3083220&categoryId=2564308&n8pe6c=2

Good night to all!

[Mr. Ypsi]

I've watched the video (both utube and espn) at least five times already.  I insisted that my wife (who hates football) watch it and she was in stitches.  What I find MOST amazing (aside from the mere fact that no one ever bobbled a catch) is:

a) every one of the passes was indeed a legal lateral (with all the spinning around and chaos, it is incredible that none of the passes went forward), and

b) in all that there was never a hold, illegal block, or whatever to negate the whole thing (or, chances are, there was but the refs were as slack-jawed as the rest of us about the whole thing - and who would have the heart and/or guts to flag such a play?)!

UN-FREAKIN-BELIEVABLE!!

[K-Mack]

Good points Ypsi.

Safe to assume ESPN kept the whole call in there? They love that stuff, and this call was as nuts/joyous/good as anything this side of Plano East/Lake Highlands* or ... dare I say ... Stanford-Cal

About to check out the higher-quality vid.

Still have to record a podcast tonight and sort through the mess that is now our top 25, to cast a ballot. Would hate to get off a plane and then run back to the computer to vote in time.

EDIT: * Good lookin' out Ralph on the correction. I should post those YouTube clips you sent if I can embed them properly on The Dose.

[Mr. Ypsi]

After finally seeing it on the big screen on College Game Day, I saw something I wanted to double-check so I watched the video yet again.  Then I saw it again on SportsCenter, which clearly confirmed it: the very last lateral bounced off the ground before it was caught (which explains the long hesitation of the announcer before excitedly calling the TD)!  Arguably the greatest finish in football history (though I still like the Stanford tuba player being run down!), and it didn't really quite happen.

Poor Millsaps!

[PA_wesleyfan]

Did appear that when the ball was bounced the Defensive players stopped thinking maybe the ball was dead?

[K-Mack]

I hadn't noticed that any of the several times I've watched it.

And it's been enough times to start analyzing the slow backside pursuit and the missed tackles and the block I didn't even noticed until someone on one of the boards pointed it out.

So one hand, I can understand anything missed in fast motion.

On the other hand, this is going to get analyzed to death. Perhaps even some talking heads saying how can you let this happen, as though it was so easy to stop in fast motion.

[speedybigboy]

Did appear that when the ball was bounced the Defensive players stopped thinking maybe the ball was dead?

I saw that too, at least one and maybe more guys near the ball are walking the other way as the last lateral is picked up off the bounce and then run in

[K-Mack]

That can't be right.

It bounced, all the officials missed it, all of Millsaps missed it, the ESPN anchors missed it ... we're just now catching wind of it?

I have a plane to catch in the morning, I can't stay up to watch the play another 10 times

Would certainly ruin one of the great plays in a long time. Then again, to this day there's some doubt about one of the laterals or a knee being down early in the Stanford-Cal play.

[speedybigboy]

That can't be right.

It bounced, all the officials missed it, all of Millsaps missed it, the ESPN anchors missed it ... we're just now catching wind of it?

I have a plane to catch in the morning, I can't stay up to watch the play another 10 times

Would certainly ruin one of the great plays in a long time. Then again, to this day there's some doubt about one of the laterals or a knee being down early in the Stanford-Cal play.

a lateral can bounce and still be in play, my point was I think a couple of Milsaps guys let up.

P.S. there is virtually no doubt in my mind that one of the laterals in the Stanford-Cal play was forward, actually I think it was the last one or second to the last one

[tu_lb53]

Speedy's got it right - a backwards lateral can bounce and still be live. That is, without a doubt, the craziest play I've ever seen in my life, and, apologies to Roy Hampton and Jason Hunt, the most memorable play in Trinity football history.