Some of my favorite plays... the guys who pick up these live balls and return them show that they are TUNED IN to the game. They know the rules and are aware of what's happening beyond just their assignment. Fun stuff!
Every NFL coach should play this video along with instructions to take possession of any ball in the field of play and let the refs sort out whether it was an incomplete pass or not.
NO IT DIDN'T!! I have VHS I filmed myself in the 1980's on a cheap camera and it looks better than that. I don't understand why the pros have film that looks worse than mine.
Not how that works, its the quality of the media and it being hilarious degraded, and not transferred to a better format when available. Dont get me wrong, watching in 480 was bad, but it wasn't unbearable mess.
I hate “his hand was moving forward” argument. It doesn’t matter if his hand is moving forward if he has already lost control of the ball, which is the definition of a fumble.
On that first one it's really unbelievable No. 50 on the Bears doesn't just pick it up and run just in case, especially when he didn't hear a whistle. He could have run a long time since all the Packers were just standing around too.
KUDOS to the players who had their heads in the game! About 95% of players are more concerned with celebrating instead of focusing on what's really going on. If I were coaching and one of my players showed off for no other reason than to draw attention to himself, I'd send him to the shower.
As a football ref soccer to you across the pond and a cricket umpire all be it at an amateur level the first thing I would do if I was a Manager of any sports team is make all my players take and pass the Ref;s exam, the players may or may not have done so so but they knew the rules....and as a Ref we appreciate it
I don't understand how a pro player can stand right next to a ball that's rolling to stop on the ground and just ignore it. If you don't hear a whistle, pick it up, of course. But even if you think you've heard a whistle, pick it up anyway just to make sure - you're right there! That's what I would do. I'm not talking about if the ball is 15 yards away and you have to hustle past a bunch of guys, I understand doing that after every play just to be sure would be impractical. I mean if the ball is right next to you anyway, like in some of these clips, you might as well just bend over and pick the thing up. What's the worst that could happen?
Imagine if instead of running he just casually meandered his way towards the endzone. How long do you think it would take the defense to cotton on? 1 minute? 2 minutes?
Seeing Ray Lewis be among those just sitting around watching the ball just kinda lay there doing nothing is a good reminder that even the all time greats arent perfect
you do realize people would listen to sports games on radio? shitty no color resolution was still better then no video, just audio.. before radio it was just stories..
Not as bad as it looks. These clips are from people who taped the shows on VHS and then later converted them to DVDs and then uploaded them to the Internet. Then this channel grabbed them and made a compilation.
The genius is that this was the actual design of the play.. make it look like an incomplete pass and have everyone stand around. Then casually walk up, pick up the ball, and run it in. 😂
I am curious what the refs would do after a few minutes of players standing around knowing it was a live ball. One day I hope something like that happens and the video is posted on RUclips.
I really wish there was a Thursday Night Prime Football moment where the crew had to debate if a play was a fumble or not. Tony Gonzalez: Good job by the players to play to the whistle, but I'm not sure if that one counts. What do you think Ryan? Ryan FitzMagic (Doing he best to sound like Earl Thomas): HIS HAND WAS GOING FORWARD! Richard Sherman (laughing and visibly in tears unable to speak)
Funny how that works, isn't it? But imagine if it goes as we see, and the guy who picks up the ball and runs gets hit and drops the ball. If a Bears player were to pick it up, would it be live for him again?
The Saints at the time were very mad about this play because people were coming off and on the field. Essentially, it was a wild card play. The next offseason, the league got rid of it.
I remember when this game happened for the bears. It's b******* cuz Roger's hand was moving forward. But then again I can't count on all my fingers and toes how many times the Bears have been screwed by NFL officials in the last 10 years
1:45 " Illegal substitution on the return team. Nine-hundred and fifty four players on the field, half of whom aren't even in uniform. Five yard penalty. Re-kick."
Yes it counted because all of us saints fans hate seeing that dumb play lol. It's a reminder of the abysmal games we had to endure for what seemed like an eternity
Yes it did count. They changed the rule for the next year that punts into the endzone that were not touched by the receiving team were automatically a touchback.
Play to the whistle, is it that hard to understand that? NFL players should know the rules, it’s inexcusable to give up touchdowns like that🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️
I hate it when PRO players (of any sport) decide/assume what the umpires/referees think...but I also love it because we get to laugh at them. "Look at me! Look how awesome I am! Er...wait...what? I didn't actually carry the ball in to the end zone? Oh sh**..." I don't even like American football, but still these videos are a great watch.
I really think they need to start using common sense on forward psst vrs fumble. If the ball moves forward its likely a forward pass. If it goes backwards it's likely a fumble.
That last one his arm doesn't matter. The rule has always been forward passes have to be caught to be incomplete. That ball did nothing but go backwards lol
@@throeawae2130 yeah all those players are blind as well.....whatever. The quarterback was passing and his arm was hit. Just because his arm was hit, does'nt mean its a fumble. He is in the motion of throwing the ball. This is not a player just dropping the ball as in a fumble.
Doesn't matter if the arm was going forwards; if the ball was jarred loose and the QB is no longer in control of it before he started moving his arm forward then it's a fumble all day.
It is interesting isn't it? These players make more in a single game than many Americans make in a year. But they can't be bothered to go get the ball.
No way. The NFL is far better than college football in part because you have to be touched down. If you fall down and you burned the defense so badly that they can't even catch up to you to touch you, you deserve to keep going. You can "give yourself up" now, though. If you intentionally go down in-bounds to keep the clock running, for example. The spike here would probably be considered giving yourself up now as he "made no effort to advance the ball" after getting back up.
much credit goes to the refs who correctly called these plays and didn't blow the whistle too early.
Credit to the camera operator at 1:50 who kept following the play. But not to whoever decided to cut to a different camera.
And to the players who kept their heads in the game and realized the reason they never heard a whistle was because the ref never blew it...
In any sport, always, always play to the whistle
I tried this in bowling. Family wouldn't talk to me for a week
@@44lionsfanabout to say the same thing about baseball
Doesn't work in golf, they kick you off the course.
On a more serious note, the way the rules are with replay, just take it to the house and let the refs sort it out.
Does that include baseball?
I love how number 28 for the Rams was immediately aware of the situation and went full speed.
Didn't matter that there were 40 players on the field
@@michaeld6147 where do you see 40 players on the field?
@@logicalblackman8228 There were players from both teams coming off the field, and players from both teams coming on to the field.
@@michaeld6147 where does it show that?
And went coast to coast...
"HIS HAND WAS MOVING FORWARD" LMFAO
Play till the whistle
Tuck rule.
One game its the tuck rule, then incomplete pass, then fumble, then illeagal man down field. Thats entertainment.
Richard Sherman lol.
It wasn't Sherm it was Earl Thomas
Some of my favorite plays... the guys who pick up these live balls and return them show that they are TUNED IN to the game. They know the rules and are aware of what's happening beyond just their assignment. Fun stuff!
Every NFL coach should play this video along with instructions to take possession of any ball in the field of play and let the refs sort out whether it was an incomplete pass or not.
What's crazy is most of the teams that were the beneficiary of a free play, even touchdown, ended up losing anyway lol
Plexico really shot himself in the foot on that play.
🤣
Well done sir, well done.
Damn, you beat me to it 😂
Ya kids, that’s what television used to look like.
Try hockey on a black and white TV in the 70s.
NO IT DIDN'T!! I have VHS I filmed myself in the 1980's on a cheap camera and it looks better than that. I don't understand why the pros have film that looks worse than mine.
Not how that works, its the quality of the media and it being hilarious degraded, and not transferred to a better format when available. Dont get me wrong, watching in 480 was bad, but it wasn't unbearable mess.
I think I remember the Plaxico Burress one. I was watching my Vikings and it was shown as a gamebreak.
That was literally the only thing Boykins did as a Packer but I will always remember him
Saints always have the greatest highlights !! 😢
The "Tuck Rule" made some of these plays ridiculous
A real tuck rule unlike brady
Joey Harrington ... my god those were dark days for my Lions. Looks like a much brighter future now though! Fingers crossed...
I hate “his hand was moving forward” argument. It doesn’t matter if his hand is moving forward if he has already lost control of the ball, which is the definition of a fumble.
Tell that to an og Patriots fan. They might have a thing or two to say about the "tuck rule"😂
I can still hear my coach yelling at me about playing until you hear the whistle
On that first one it's really unbelievable No. 50 on the Bears doesn't just pick it up and run just in case, especially when he didn't hear a whistle. He could have run a long time since all the Packers were just standing around too.
This is the opposite of the Titans-Lions Thanksgiving not-whistled-down-when-he's-down moment.
1:43 is so great
KUDOS to the players who had their heads in the game! About 95% of players are more concerned with celebrating instead of focusing on what's really going on. If I were coaching and one of my players showed off for no other reason than to draw attention to himself, I'd send him to the shower.
As a football ref soccer to you across the pond and a cricket umpire all be it at an amateur level the first thing I would do if I was a Manager of any sports team is make all my players take and pass the Ref;s exam, the players may or may not have done so so but they knew the rules....and as a Ref we appreciate it
That punt doesn't happen today. The moment the ball touches the ground in the endzone it's dead.
Ya. I wish they hadn’t changed that
@@TexansFan218
when did they change this rule
@@Michael-sb8jf It was in 2004. It was this play that caused the rule change.
I don't understand how a pro player can stand right next to a ball that's rolling to stop on the ground and just ignore it. If you don't hear a whistle, pick it up, of course. But even if you think you've heard a whistle, pick it up anyway just to make sure - you're right there! That's what I would do. I'm not talking about if the ball is 15 yards away and you have to hustle past a bunch of guys, I understand doing that after every play just to be sure would be impractical. I mean if the ball is right next to you anyway, like in some of these clips, you might as well just bend over and pick the thing up. What's the worst that could happen?
run, Forrest!
Imagine if instead of running he just casually meandered his way towards the endzone. How long do you think it would take the defense to cotton on? 1 minute? 2 minutes?
If you don't hear the whistle, KEEP PLAYING
Seeing Ray Lewis be among those just sitting around watching the ball just kinda lay there doing nothing is a good reminder that even the all time greats arent perfect
Best pass Joey Harrington ever made
Marvin Harrison infamous play in ‘04 playoffs vs my Denver Broncos
Nah hes gonna get drafted this year nice try
@@jpg6296 Marvin Harrison, Jr. is his son, you DAMF. Marvin Harrison was a great WR for the Colts for years.
TV resolution was so bad in the 80's it's a miracle people even watched sports. That's what I thought back then, too.
you do realize people would listen to sports games on radio? shitty no color resolution was still better then no video, just audio.. before radio it was just stories..
@@and_I_am_Life_the_fixer_of_all Imagination has better resolution than 480p.
Not as bad as it looks. These clips are from people who taped the shows on VHS and then later converted them to DVDs and then uploaded them to the Internet. Then this channel grabbed them and made a compilation.
@@christinef7739 It's as bad as I remember it.
@@anotherlover6954 Whatever. I'm not going to argue with you, except to say you must have had a crappy TV.
1:18 he was aware it just was a pre celebration 😂
Play till the whistle
INCOMPLETE pass
Thumbs up for making the thumbnail picture the first clip.
I was always told to never stop playing until you hear a whistle for this very reason
The genius is that this was the actual design of the play.. make it look like an incomplete pass and have everyone stand around. Then casually walk up, pick up the ball, and run it in. 😂
The last one was a bad call. He releases the ball on the 31 and it lands right on the 30.
I am curious what the refs would do after a few minutes of players standing around knowing it was a live ball. One day I hope something like that happens and the video is posted on RUclips.
Well done
U always play to the whistle and at least wait til the whistle to celebrate.
If u don't hear that whistle the play aint dead
If you see the ball and do not hear the whistle, PICK IT UP AND F***ING RUN!!!
Ain’t over til it’s over.
I really wish there was a Thursday Night Prime Football moment where the crew had to debate if a play was a fumble or not.
Tony Gonzalez: Good job by the players to play to the whistle, but I'm not sure if that one counts. What do you think Ryan?
Ryan FitzMagic (Doing he best to sound like Earl Thomas): HIS HAND WAS GOING FORWARD!
Richard Sherman (laughing and visibly in tears unable to speak)
Had the Bears picked the ball up on that first play, they would have just called it incomplete.
Funny how that works, isn't it?
But imagine if it goes as we see, and the guy who picks up the ball and runs gets hit and drops the ball. If a Bears player were to pick it up, would it be live for him again?
Ah the best play of Joey Harrington's career.
Imagine your whole job is playing football and not knowing the rules. Professional athletes honestly are so lazy at times.
They're paid to be paid, sports is an afterthought.
Tuck rule effed everything up 😑😩🙄
Credit to the Steelers for being the only team dumb enough to do that twice, here.
2:16….why was this rule ever changed?
The Saints at the time were very mad about this play because people were coming off and on the field. Essentially, it was a wild card play. The next offseason, the league got rid of it.
@@sijdnsd6460,
Basically, they didn't like that no one knew the play was live... so they the league got rid of the play. *Shakes Head*
Plaxico!
Whatever happened to the Tuck Rule?
I remember when this game happened for the bears. It's b******* cuz Roger's hand was moving forward. But then again I can't count on all my fingers and toes how many times the Bears have been screwed by NFL officials in the last 10 years
Pittsburgh/Jacksonville - it that's not a good example of watching an idiot in action, I don't know what is.
get that it was fumbled before the hand/arm came forward to push the ball forward ... but is the offense even allowed to advance a fumble ?
I believe the question is whether or not its intentional. As long as its unintentional, you're probably ok
Only on 1st, 2nd, or 3rd down in the first 28 minutes of a half
Play to the whistle
The second stupidest thing Plaxico Burress has done.
1:45 " Illegal substitution on the return team. Nine-hundred and fifty four players on the field, half of whom aren't even in uniform. Five yard penalty. Re-kick."
Both teams were illegally substituting players...
@@aralornwolf3140 Indeed! And I don't know why but it cheeses me off that the whole thing didn't get called back.
Hiw does the quality of each clip just get worse than the last?
Always play to the whistle
On the Rams punt return, did that count because there were clearly Rams players coming onto the field during the play.
Yes it counted because all of us saints fans hate seeing that dumb play lol. It's a reminder of the abysmal games we had to endure for what seemed like an eternity
@@patrickevans9604 seems like you’re not much better off now.
Yes it did count. They changed the rule for the next year that punts into the endzone that were not touched by the receiving team were automatically a touchback.
i would but they follow,...
What’s next ? Double interceptions ?
Great idea!
ikr . I always think it’s crazy when someone intercepts it and it pops into the hands of one of their teamates . It’s just …nuts!
I find in unbelievable that the refs called a play in Detroit's favor.
Oh man those are EMBARRASSING!
If the first play had been Brady, they would have called it incomplete.
I thought the NFL rule was the offense can't advance a fumble? Am I wrong? (The infamous Ken Stabler play against the Miami Dolphins.)
The offense can only advance on 1st, 2nd, or 3rd down outside the 2:00 warning
@@geoffreyhooker9005 TY
2:47 if he didn't spike the ball and just broke out into a run for his endzone, would they have given him it? Pfft, unlikely. Little jank ijs
I can't watch this. Smh
Clete the cheat Blakeman
Marvin Harrison’s?
Play to the whistle, is it that hard to understand that? NFL players should know the rules, it’s inexcusable to give up touchdowns like that🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️
What you don't see here are the thousands of times they do it right.
Mistakes happen, it's people, don't pretend you don't make any at your Job.
I mean San Fran doesn't understand overtime rules so it makes sense
At least the Falcons weren’t in any of these.
Tuck game still hurts as a raider fan. Cheated.
I hate it when PRO players (of any sport) decide/assume what the umpires/referees think...but I also love it because we get to laugh at them.
"Look at me! Look how awesome I am! Er...wait...what? I didn't actually carry the ball in to the end zone? Oh sh**..."
I don't even like American football, but still these videos are a great watch.
Plaxico loved to shoot himself in the foot, didn’t he?
Shit tube now requires me to sign in or agree to be tracked through history or I can't view any videos. 😕
I really think they need to start using common sense on forward psst vrs fumble. If the ball moves forward its likely a forward pass. If it goes backwards it's likely a fumble.
You left out Kansas City
"The Ball Is Live" Moments But the Video Quality Gets Increasingly Worse
Bears looked bad in that clip 🤦♂️ but still my team
#BearDown
What if somebody blows a referee's whistle from the stands? "Play to the whistle" NOT.
THAT gets you *thrown out of the stadium*.
Like. No. There is a zero-tolerance policy for that shit.
His hand wasn't going forward for a pass. His hand got hit from behind forcing his hand while he was loading up.
But the only person on offense who can advance a fumble is the person who fumbled the ball in the 1st place.
That last one his arm doesn't matter. The rule has always been forward passes have to be caught to be incomplete. That ball did nothing but go backwards lol
Perhaps most of those players thought they were incomplete passes is because the arm was moving forward in all of them. Those were not fumbles.
go to the optometrist.
@@throeawae2130 yeah all those players are blind as well.....whatever. The quarterback was passing and his arm was hit. Just because his arm was hit, does'nt mean its a fumble. He is in the motion of throwing the ball. This is not a player just dropping the ball as in a fumble.
Doesn't matter if the arm was going forwards; if the ball was jarred loose and the QB is no longer in control of it before he started moving his arm forward then it's a fumble all day.
2:50, Burress was more concerned with clowning than winning.
Filmed through vaseline.
Can someone explain to a non american what makes a ball live or not after it has been dropped?
It is interesting isn't it? These players make more in a single game than many Americans make in a year. But they can't be bothered to go get the ball.
Rule 1 - play the whistle. I was taught that aged 10.
The worst one is the receiver that celebrated by spiking the ball. Your job is to catch the pass. You celebrate because you did your job?
Ha! Get rid of the tuck rule to make some whiny Raiders fans happy? Live with the consequences.
Joe Buck is so annoying to listen to because of him being a Nepo-Baby. A person who has never earned his position and only got it because of daddy.
“Down” rules are so dumb in the NFL. You shouldn’t have to be touched. If you go down, you should be down.
No way. The NFL is far better than college football in part because you have to be touched down. If you fall down and you burned the defense so badly that they can't even catch up to you to touch you, you deserve to keep going. You can "give yourself up" now, though. If you intentionally go down in-bounds to keep the clock running, for example. The spike here would probably be considered giving yourself up now as he "made no effort to advance the ball" after getting back up.
i thought only the fumbling player could advance the ball
Only on 4th down
@@dansmolenski2159 Not on a conversion attempt either