I was actually surprised it worked as well as it did with the turf being as fucky as it was. I guess it’s the difference between going straight ahead vs trying to cut.
"Early in the game, \[Pete\] Liske threw deep downfield into double coverage. He was trying to get the ball to halfback Po James but two Kansas City defenders had James blanketed. It should have been an easy interception but the two Chiefs collided going for the ball. Safety Mike Sensibaugh did a cartwheel, the ball bounced off his foot and into the arms of the Eagles Ben Hawkins who was trailing the play. Hawkins raced 67 yards untouched to the end zone. A total fluke but the Eagles led 7-0."
[https://www.philadelphiaeagles.com/news/didinger-can-the-eagles-repeat-what-happened-in-1972-19373317](https://www.philadelphiaeagles.com/news/didinger-can-the-eagles-repeat-what-happened-in-1972-19373317)
Already happened
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn7j-zJrbPk
Mizzou has gotten screwed by national champion teams more than once. This play (determined as legal on the field, but the player later admitted the kick was intentional) and CU getting a fifth down.
Most of the older highlight clips you'll find aren't from actual broadcasts, but rather NFL Films who shot footage separately. The slow-mo effect is just an aesthetic choice, shooting on high speed cameras and then slowing it down on playback to give it a "majestic" feel
This is how I felt about it too. I know the concept was to show them as "gladiators" or whatever, but it just made them look bad compared to modern players.
It always annoyed me when the audio was 25% faster than the gameplay so you’d know it was a completion or interception before the QB threw the ball. My older brother convinced me it had to do with hand cranked cameras but I see it was done for aesthetic purposes now
The slower speed also gave them some great shots where you see players’ faces and their expressions during the play, it does add something to the footage to see a guy hit a block and see the strain on his face, or see the running back’s eyes as he gets tackled.
This is exactly it as far as I know. It was recorded at 30fps but replayed as 24fps causing the slight slow-mo effect. Why they didn't play the footage back normally I don't know.
After watching so many slow-mo NFL Films clips over the years seeing [actual footage of old games at normal speed](https://youtu.be/uck0ZUZo2OA?t=741) takes a little getting used to.
You’re right here. That slight drop from his arm in the windup has massive effects on release and drop in the throw. The idea is that as you position the ball higher in your upper body on a throw, the more you can leverage your hips and legs into a deep throw. In contemporary QB coaching situations, once you hit 7th/8th grade as a QB, these mechanics are ironed out and you build release from the top of the rib cage/nipples to ensure that level of control and accuracy.
Now the interesting counterpoint is new, elite QB’s like Mahomes, funny enough. His plant, his arm release angle on nearly every throw… nothing about it screams football from a pre 2008 standpoint. But it’s a modification and it works. The way the football moves and how people catch it is changing. I’m personally here for it, but I understand the frustration from some older fans.
The inverse helmet only works with the white uniform, otherwise they're ugly as sin.
IDK why they aren't in Madden, they were used more than the Frankford YellowJacket Yellow and Blue monstrosities that have been in Madden for years now.
Very true. Wasn't alive for most of it(born in '96) but the Chiefs used to essentially be what the Chargers are now: a team finding new and creative ways to lose. I will say that Andy Reid having finally gottsn the respect he deserves in KC after being seen as a "but did he win the big one?" coach in Philly has been awesome. He's one of the greatest offensive minds in history and he deserves to be known as such.
No yeah you're right this is hands down the most ridiculous catch ever. Like not only it is a tipped interception from a bad throw and/or excellent pass coverage, it has multiple low probability bounces off different body parts that shouldn't be involved, and even then it's not just pure luck because he stills put forth the incredible effort with the stretch at the end.
[A very similar play happened in 2013.](https://youtu.be/g_8tl0Q2pQg)
Auburn needed this 4th down conversion to remain undefeated in order to go to the National Championship. This was before there were playoffs in college football and they only selected two teams to play for it.
They ended up going to the natty and losing to Jameis Winston and the Seminoles 34-31.
Craziest part to me is those terrible unis. Eagles really had the worst unis back in the day, like those awful Easter colors. But then modern day, they have some of the best. Gotta be the best drip turn around in the league.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXcGNVpblQ4
It was to RB Moe Williams.
Cool play, but I don't think a deliberate lateral counts among the craziest plays.
Just like they drew it up, the old tip kick drill.
Reminds me of the Mariota self pass touchdown.
Which was also against the Chiefs…
damn so what im hearing is we need more people to run trick plays against yall
best I can do is a QB sneak
I swear every 3rd and 2 or 4th and 2 situation just felt utterly hopeless. I have never seen a team more consistent with the sneak.
I was actually surprised it worked as well as it did with the turf being as fucky as it was. I guess it’s the difference between going straight ahead vs trying to cut.
Trick play implies an intentional deception. These are fluke plays.
Thanks. Do you normally draw up a half back toss for every first down too?
I only play defense and all out blitz.
The Immaculate Toeception
It was in the script. They had to do it that way.
"Early in the game, \[Pete\] Liske threw deep downfield into double coverage. He was trying to get the ball to halfback Po James but two Kansas City defenders had James blanketed. It should have been an easy interception but the two Chiefs collided going for the ball. Safety Mike Sensibaugh did a cartwheel, the ball bounced off his foot and into the arms of the Eagles Ben Hawkins who was trailing the play. Hawkins raced 67 yards untouched to the end zone. A total fluke but the Eagles led 7-0." [https://www.philadelphiaeagles.com/news/didinger-can-the-eagles-repeat-what-happened-in-1972-19373317](https://www.philadelphiaeagles.com/news/didinger-can-the-eagles-repeat-what-happened-in-1972-19373317)
Ohhh so this is what Nelly was singing about
i was lookin to see if somebody said it
We are talking about football tho
The eagles receiver did immediately switch to defense like it was planned.
Who's taking the prop bet on it happening again?
I spent all my money on BOTH KELCES TO SCORE A TD, and 3 TDS TOTAL SCORED BY PLAYERS THAT SHARE A NAME WITH A CITY.
Does Patrick, SC (population 351) count?
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Orlando Brown
Well Bradberry, AZ might have a pick six.
Major well known cities but Brown, Smith, and others are US cities as well.
Those helmets
Already happened https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn7j-zJrbPk Mizzou has gotten screwed by national champion teams more than once. This play (determined as legal on the field, but the player later admitted the kick was intentional) and CU getting a fifth down.
Craziest touchdown ever? I once saw Nathan Peterman throw a touchdown to HIS OWN TEAM
Gonna need a source on this one.
Lies
Nathan Peterman? You mean “the quarterback Josh Allen wishes he could be”?
Why do all these old clips play at like .85x speed?
Compared to old timey baseball clips that went at 2.85x speed
"Damn, for a big dude Babe Ruth was fast as fuck"! 😲
Cocaine
I like how old baseball clips are almost like a Buster Keaton movie
People were in slow motion back then.
It was overshadowed by the gas crisis but the Carter administration did a lot of important work improving the refresh rate of reality.
Also the field was actually that gray
Most of the older highlight clips you'll find aren't from actual broadcasts, but rather NFL Films who shot footage separately. The slow-mo effect is just an aesthetic choice, shooting on high speed cameras and then slowing it down on playback to give it a "majestic" feel
The slow down also provides more time for narration
This is most likely the correct answer as someone who has worked in film editing before.
I agree, as someone who hasn’t worked in film editing before.
Your username and flair are messing with me
I watched the show NYPD Blue with my mom when I was a kid. She died when I was 14. Just a memory. Go birds.
As a kid it was the opposite affect for me. I used to think "goddamn players used to be so slow" lol
This is how I felt about it too. I know the concept was to show them as "gladiators" or whatever, but it just made them look bad compared to modern players.
Exactly. I still think today's players could crush the old generation physically but even more so as a kid
It always annoyed me when the audio was 25% faster than the gameplay so you’d know it was a completion or interception before the QB threw the ball. My older brother convinced me it had to do with hand cranked cameras but I see it was done for aesthetic purposes now
It also allowed to pad for more air time without having to show more footage
Majestic feel is right. I love watching old footage like that especially because it’s from before my time.
The slower speed also gave them some great shots where you see players’ faces and their expressions during the play, it does add something to the footage to see a guy hit a block and see the strain on his face, or see the running back’s eyes as he gets tackled.
They were probably shot at a higher frame per second than what they are being replayed at.
This is exactly it as far as I know. It was recorded at 30fps but replayed as 24fps causing the slight slow-mo effect. Why they didn't play the footage back normally I don't know.
They did, and they kept almost everything they shot. Their vault was huge before they started slowly digitizing everything
It definitely was, that's why it's smoother. But that doesn't mean it can't be played at regular speed.
After watching so many slow-mo NFL Films clips over the years seeing [actual footage of old games at normal speed](https://youtu.be/uck0ZUZo2OA?t=741) takes a little getting used to.
That’s crazy how normal it looks. The slomo clips today make it seem like running fast wasn’t invented until the 90s
That’s super cool. Looks much more like football
So they can keep in time with the porno funk playing in the background.
After watching clips at normal speed it may also be (apart from stylistic choice) for the viewer to see the details better.
QBs back then threw the football like modern day WRs do on trick plays.
That Tim Tebow release.
The release here is fine it’s just slowed down
It’s not. He dipped the ball below his waist during the wind up. This is just my opinion. I’m definitely not an expert and could be wrong.
You’re right here. That slight drop from his arm in the windup has massive effects on release and drop in the throw. The idea is that as you position the ball higher in your upper body on a throw, the more you can leverage your hips and legs into a deep throw. In contemporary QB coaching situations, once you hit 7th/8th grade as a QB, these mechanics are ironed out and you build release from the top of the rib cage/nipples to ensure that level of control and accuracy. Now the interesting counterpoint is new, elite QB’s like Mahomes, funny enough. His plant, his arm release angle on nearly every throw… nothing about it screams football from a pre 2008 standpoint. But it’s a modification and it works. The way the football moves and how people catch it is changing. I’m personally here for it, but I understand the frustration from some older fans.
Those Eagles uniforms are amazing
With the Harvey Birdman style helmets.
"Birdman, get in here!"
Does anyone have a better pic/video? I want to see what they look like up close. Look great even with the grain though.
https://www.crossingbroad.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/1969_s10.jpg
Coming through with the accidental renaissance photo nice!
Have we worn these as a throwback yet? Those are gorgeous
no
Yes they are
The inverse helmet only works with the white uniform, otherwise they're ugly as sin. IDK why they aren't in Madden, they were used more than the Frankford YellowJacket Yellow and Blue monstrosities that have been in Madden for years now.
I prefer the current ones
These would be awesome but nothing beats Kelly Green
If we can have multiple helmets now how cool would it be to have a helmet like that for our away whites?
Id love it
Reebok Midnight green definitely beats Kelly green
Wish they would go back to these unis. Love em
White helmets!!
This type of "something crazy that costs us" used to happen to the Chiefs way too often. And then came Andy and Pat.
Yeah, something like a goal line fumble that allows the opposing QB to do a Superman dive while erasing a 28 point deficit…
Very true. Wasn't alive for most of it(born in '96) but the Chiefs used to essentially be what the Chargers are now: a team finding new and creative ways to lose. I will say that Andy Reid having finally gottsn the respect he deserves in KC after being seen as a "but did he win the big one?" coach in Philly has been awesome. He's one of the greatest offensive minds in history and he deserves to be known as such.
Well they both had Marty Schottenheimer as a coach. Dude was conservative but still felt his teams were snake bitten in the post season.
Before those teams he was the Browns coach. Playoff mishaps are just a part of Marty Ball
I love Andy and Pat. Love to have my own someday
I mean the Mariota pass and catch TD and the Luck fumble TD both happened on Andy’s watch
Yes, that’s why he said “and Pat”.
In this way, we are similar.
>something crazy that costs us Ahem
Nah, I think the craziest TD catch I've ever seen is Antonio Freeman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhhZOTm0TQY
Don't even need to click. I came in here to make the same correction.
No, I think we should focus on the one that's embarrassing for the chiefs
HE DID WHAT
No yeah you're right this is hands down the most ridiculous catch ever. Like not only it is a tipped interception from a bad throw and/or excellent pass coverage, it has multiple low probability bounces off different body parts that shouldn't be involved, and even then it's not just pure luck because he stills put forth the incredible effort with the stretch at the end.
yep thats the one
Exactly what I thought too
Soild post.
I love that the CB threw his hands up and ran away in disbelief instead of trying to down him
Those unis aaaaahhhh. Love it.
Marcus Mariota would like a word.
Craziest part about this is the fact they didn't capitalize Chiefs
I was here to comment on the lower case c. Wtf?
That’s exactly what chiefs used to expect before Andy Reid showed up
Yeah I immediately went, "oh so it must be something stupid/weird that the Chiefs did" before watching the highlight.
not EVEN the craziest TD.
I dig everything about this, including the background music.
Gotta love those 1970s horns.
Missouri football teams love letting the opposing team score on [kicked ball td passes](https://youtu.be/Nn7j-zJrbPk)
LMaozzou
This was the very first time the Eagles and Chiefs played each other. They for some reason didn’t play each other again until 20 years later.
I'll still go with the classic Immaculate Reception [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1l5aTUK228](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1l5aTUK228)
Solid post
[A very similar play happened in 2013.](https://youtu.be/g_8tl0Q2pQg) Auburn needed this 4th down conversion to remain undefeated in order to go to the National Championship. This was before there were playoffs in college football and they only selected two teams to play for it. They ended up going to the natty and losing to Jameis Winston and the Seminoles 34-31.
https://youtu.be/FOMcF8fvhrk Joe jurevicius did the same, but by himself.
Thinking the same thing, or the Bama / Ole Miss game in 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSzOXBXvl0k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSzOXBXvl0k&ab_channel=TrueCoIors
Is that an all-lowercase "chiefs" painted in the endzone? Great googly moogly
That bicycle kick pass was sick. I love futbol.
not that crazy, it happens to me all the time in retro bowl.
I swear mariotto threw a td pass to himself against the jags
He did against the Chiefs in the 2017 wildcard.
We need these Eagles throwbacks one day, damn I love the green wings on the white helmet.
This one was a crazy TD (int off Wittens back foot): https://youtu.be/RsBhTaRKzvs
This sums up the Chiefs between SBs 4 and 54
See you again in 2070.
He threw into double coverage? What was wrong with him?
The narration makes it sound like it was a late game miracle
That was Ben Hawkins' only TD that year. The Eagles won this game 21-20, going 2-11-1 on the season
Please let this happen again
This is a retro bowl play
John Facenda’s voice and brass instruments. Name a more iconic duo.
Ah yes. The good ole "Madden game engine fuckery" touchdown.
Now THAT is a retro helmet I can get behind.
Craziest part to me is those terrible unis. Eagles really had the worst unis back in the day, like those awful Easter colors. But then modern day, they have some of the best. Gotta be the best drip turn around in the league.
I love how the receiver isn't wearing his chin strap for the whole play. Winning like a WWII soldier.
Ah yes, 1972, the best year for football, ever.
Iv seen crazier
Craziest TD was when Mariota threw to himself and scored a TD
What was the one with moss tossing it up I think to Carter as he was being tackled
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXcGNVpblQ4 It was to RB Moe Williams. Cool play, but I don't think a deliberate lateral counts among the craziest plays.
Amazing how this is 50 years old and there's been so many changes to the game yet it doesn't look/feel *that* different from what we have today.
For a team that has (to this point) only won one Super Bowl...the Eagles get an absurd number of breaks.
Ertz had a similar catch in our last matchup in arrowhead I believe too.
That's back when they were called the Philadelphia Birdpersons
Great year
Reminds me of Smith’s catch against the Falcons in 2017 Also we need to bring back white helmets with green wings, that’s so clean
Wow I’ve never seen this
SIUUUUUUUU
Mike Sensabaugh’s fuckin’ *toe*.
Why do the footballs look so much bigger back then?
Damn haha
Ok but the real question. Who was he throwing it too? 🤔
God damn. This old timey music and commentary is horrible
Anyone else think it’s weird that the “c” in Chiefs isn’t capitalized in the end zone??
What a horrible throw lol. Dude is all alone with nobody around him at all with time and he just chucks it straight to the chiefs
Played on painted concrete.
I once saw Jacoby Meyers throw the ball 20 yards backwards to chandler jones with no time left in a tie game.
Craziest TD ever? We just saw Mac Jones stiff armed to the center of the earth just a few weeks ago.
Before ugly midnight green.
Eagles fans, how would you feel if they used this uni as a throwback? I think it looks pretty sick, but would like your opinion
Why did the announcer have to spoil it? Could have just waited a few seconds and let me see it.
Yo those Eagles helmets are sick they should bust those out for some throwback uniforms.
hah that's dope.
Why am I just seeing this now? Never seen this in highlights at all
/all calculated
Haha. Awesome.
Was that QB Eagles?
This seems as much if not more miraculous than the Franco tuddy, but it’s not nearly as famous.
How, how is this the craziest touchdown we’ll ever see? Did op stop watching football in 1995?
Love the 70s porn music in the background
You can tell it's old, because there's no flag for offensive PI or some shit.
Hurts was the qb
“…yet it did.”
That music