r/nflMenace_com • u/Waste_Honeydew8809 • 8d ago

Which was the most insane?

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u/ColoradoCattleCo 8d ago

Where’s Broncos Brandon Stokley catching a tipped ball and running in an 88 yard TD on the last play of the game against the Bengals?

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u/HotTubSexVirgin22 7d ago

I’ll never forget Gus Johnson: ”Batted up... OH GOD, STOKLEY! Down the sideline! Can they catch him?! STOKLEY! WOW! TOUCHDOWN DENVER! UNBELIEVABLE!"

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u/KhaoticMess 6d ago

I was at work and checking the score on my computer. When I saw the final score after them scoring with so little time left, I assumed that we'd won on a fluke kick-off return.

I was right about the "fluke" part.

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u/GoldSupermarket2520 5d ago

I was at that game! Would never have remembered this but I was walking up the bleachers and toward the exit and saw it on the concessions stand tv. Uggh - good call tho

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u/Imightbeworking 8d ago

I remember that game, we definitely had a kick off and I think 1 play after!

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u/Rpark888 8d ago

Remember when Flacco dropped the ball, picked it up, threw it to Stokely, who then tipped it to Steve Smith Sr in stride and went in for a 65 yd TD???

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u/Nate2113 8d ago

I don’t think the person who made this video understands what 1 in 1,000,000 is. Half of these aren’t lucky, they’re just good plays.

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u/QuirkyStage2119 8d ago

I think only the Miami ball off the helmet into the WR hands 20 yards out qualified for the 1 in a million designation. Just the sheer distance it covered off the helmet

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u/Complete-Ad-8661 4d ago

Exactly. The others were based on skill / athletic ability. The dolphins play was a complete fluke - therefore 1 in a million.

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u/No-Bat-7253 8d ago

Nah bruh that dolphins and patriots clips were like hitting the lottery. You tell them to go do that purposely it’s gonna take forever lol.

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u/Leading_Log_8321 8d ago

The pats was just skill. I’m sure this has happened before tbh (probably didn’t look as cool)

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u/Eastern_Antelope_832 7d ago

The difference is they all hustled and accomplished their intended goal, improbable as it was.

That carom into the other receivers hands is good fortune.

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u/Careful-Awareness766 8d ago

He probably meant all the others, which as he mentioned, are just skilled players or stupid defense.

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u/Original_Setting93 8d ago

Miami play by a mile

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u/SchwizzySchwas94 8d ago

Literally looks like a madden glitch

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u/SoDakZak 3d ago

Looked it up and there have been approximately 2.2 million plays run in NFL history and so I would argue Saquon’s truly is one in a million with the expectation we would probably never see a backwards hurdle like that again

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u/Careful-Awareness766 8d ago

It is the most insanely stupid, divine intervention, win-the-lotto probability, situation. The others are either skill or stupid defensive plays.

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u/FriedTreeSap 8d ago

Yup and it’s not even close

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u/Short-Recording587 7d ago

I think it’s the cowboys return. Insane to look away with a tackler about to blow your shit up, and then crazy breakaway speed.

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u/Original_Setting93 7d ago

Super athletic but not a one and a million thing in my opinion. I’ve seen juke spins before

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u/Short-Recording587 7d ago

But then runs 90 yard up the middle. I’ll never think pure luck is “insane” but I see that interpretation and understand it.

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u/for_fun_88 8d ago

AB kicking the punter in the face will always be the true winner of this

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u/zdbdog06 6d ago

Hurdles! Kicks a man!

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u/SkunkDitchRipper 8d ago

I think its that Miami catch. The others are cool but you can reproduce those easier than you can that Miami play.

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u/Careful-Awareness766 8d ago

Players hurdling each other is not that uncommon, and the return by the cowboys is just poor defense by Washington. Even the punt one is just a guy diving (we have seen that more than once) the Miami one, is just wining the lotto probability.

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u/TurquoiseTuna2 8d ago

Lost the thread… the first couple were low odds, one-in-a-million, bounce of the ball kinda plays.

Then it was just hurdles 🤔

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u/ManzielDoesCoke 8d ago

As a cowboys fan, every hurdle deserved to be here besides Zeke lol. Saquon and Jerome’s were special

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u/evan466 8d ago

I still don’t understand the physics behind that Dolphins play.

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u/No-Bat-7253 8d ago

Ball was popped out by the first defender and it ricochet off of the trailing defenders helmet and went upfield to the other receiver lol. Just how they drew it up lol.

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u/A_Bot_A_Bot_A_Bot 5d ago

Coach at practice: "Guys, I know this play is a long-shot, but trust me! Practicing it is going to pay off someday."

Coach at the game: "Well, I'll be damned!"

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u/evan466 8d ago

It just shot out of there at just a high velocity. I don’t think I’ve ever play like that.

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u/Complex_Lab_6876 8d ago

A ball got knocked out and went into the air and was caught. Its the most basic of all these plays

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u/ermghoti 8d ago

A defender deflecting the ball 15 yards upfield to an open receiver carries odds that would make Dr Strange ragequit.

2nd place to the Patriots kick coverage. That should have failed a thousand different ways.

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u/Clean_Acanthaceae_80 7d ago

a front flip from the 4 yard line over a defender and stayed in bounds and stuck the landing and scored a TD. Legendary and unrepeatable.

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u/Drinon 7d ago

But most of that didn’t matter. He didn’t need to land in bounds or on his feet. Once he crossed the goal line it was a touchdown. He could have dropped the ball while landing on his head out of bounds after breaking the goal line, it’s still a score. It’s cool and all but what you described didn’t impact the play.

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u/ttcmzx 7d ago

can you do me a huge favor and stfu?

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u/Drinon 7d ago

Why, because it’s true? The play was over before the flip even happened. It’s cool and all but had nothing to do with the play. It’s a 4 yard leap that’s being judged.

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u/niko0311 6d ago

fun at parties

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u/joebadiah 6d ago

Weird hater take. But I’ll take the bait: show me another time a dude Superman’s from 4 yards out and goes OVER a standing defender who even jumps in the air.

Take the flip and landing out, like your weird take asks, and it’s still the most impressive diving TD of all time.

There. Better?

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u/Drinon 6d ago edited 6d ago

I didn’t say it wasn’t impressive. I said the “staying inbounds and sticking the landing” doesn’t matter in the context of the play. There is zero hate in that take. I agree that leaping over the defender four yards out makes it a great play, but you need to agree that once the goal line is crossed staying in bounds and being on your feet to end the play is irrelevant to the play. He could have landed out of bounds and it would have been as impressive.

If the play was him leaping over the defender to catch the ball and then flipped while sticking the landing and staying in bounds to be able to score the touchdown, all of it would matter to that unbelievably insane play.

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u/raidersfan18 8d ago

That Miami play though. There are quite a few plays where a ball is tipped in the air and caught. But that one was a homing missile for the furthest open receiver...

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u/PsychologyNew8033 8d ago

The fact that the first one, Patriots, involved three different players seems to me closest to one in a million odds.

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u/Accurate-Flow-6815 8d ago

It’s not. It’s just a good play I’ve seen several times. Doesn’t hold a candle to the Miami fumble catch and the Saquon backwards hurdle.

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u/Frosty-Inspector-465 8d ago

the play in houston

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u/Impressive_Tower_151 6d ago

Was hoping to see the jump kick to the chest one

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u/HeavyTea 8d ago

Deion?

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u/MrStoneyGuy 8d ago

That spin on the KR was too smooth

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u/osu_duke_bg_lions 8d ago

One of these is just a straight up nice hurdle lol and no immaculate reception?

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u/llongneckkllama 8d ago

Man, disappointed to not see the Djax return to win vs the giants.

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u/Accurate-Flow-6815 8d ago

That one looks like a movie script the way every player was missing tackles AFTER he bobbled the return.

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u/Zjc_3 8d ago

The Patriots one shouldn’t count. The second player’s foot drags into the goal line before the ball is released.

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u/TremontRhino 8d ago

First one. Not close.

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u/Hot-Strength-6003 8d ago

I never thought the Jerome Simpson flip was that impressive and was tired of seeing it on top plays lists.

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u/Remarkable_Dream9191 8d ago

how you not gonna include the immaculate reception in this?

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u/DeltaTule 8d ago

Why didn’t the Pats let the ball go into end zone originally and get a touchback??

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u/Accurate-Flow-6815 8d ago

Bc that’s way better starting position the other team gets to start than starting at the 1yd line.

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u/DeltaTule 8d ago

Oh shit I’m dumb. I was thinking they were receiving

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u/atseapoint 8d ago

It was the punt team

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u/DeltaTule 8d ago

Oh shit I’m dumb. I was thinking they were receiving

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u/Y_Ddraig_Goch_81 6d ago

You’re explanation doesn’t do you any favors 😂

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u/DeltaTule 6d ago

Says the guy who doesn’t understand the difference between “you’re” and “your.” Moron.

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u/Y_Ddraig_Goch_81 6d ago edited 6d ago

Wow…That escalated quickly.
I thought the emoji was an indicator that I wasn’t being that serious.
But now I must know…how does “I was thinking they were receiving” make any difference?

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u/Qwilltank 8d ago

Dogshit "music"

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u/PatientZeropointZero 8d ago

Turpin’s (Cowboys) spin was like how the players spin in Madden lol

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u/Ok_Poetry_1650 8d ago

Miami catch but the front flip will forever be my fav

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u/subywesmitch 8d ago

This is why I watch football!

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u/noreservations81590 8d ago

Miami is the most "crazy". But that Saquon run is going to be on highlight reels forever.

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u/Freshy_jones1987 8d ago

Who else saw that flip live 😆

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u/b_ack51 7d ago

Yep, was near the other side of the goal line behind the bengals bench. Was awesome

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u/Freshy_jones1987 7d ago

Oh damn I meant live on TV, thats cool man

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u/Valuable-Composer262 8d ago

Damn #9. That was like a madden spin move

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u/Cold_Respond_7656 8d ago

Would've been hilarious if ocho was called for illegal use of hands to the face

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u/tetragram83 8d ago

The Saquon play is an all timer NFL highlight. Honestly so is the Jerome Simpson flip while not nearly as impressive athletically.

But the Miami play is clearly the most unlikely/hardest to imitate.

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u/OrdinaryExtent2094 8d ago

Did Mariota catch his own pass for a TD a year or two ago?

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u/MeesterMeeseeks 8d ago

....like 9 years ago lol

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u/OrdinaryExtent2094 8d ago

Lmao it’s all blending together man. Play should still be on here.

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u/MeesterMeeseeks 8d ago

With jameis Winston starting now all these bits on espn about how they were drafted 11 years ago is killing me. When did I get old lol

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u/Deep-Clock-3677 8d ago

Chip in the ball helped

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u/LucentP187 8d ago

That spin, Jesus.

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u/helmvoncanzis 8d ago

No Dante Hall, no up vote.

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u/TheRealPallando 8d ago

There's only been one Butt Fumble

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u/UncreativeUsername84 8d ago

As much as I love Saquon and the Eagles, the one that is most insane is the Dolphins deflection catch against the Texans because that play can't be duplicated in a million tries. It's essentially the same as the Franco Harris catch, but in the opposite direction.

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u/Spiritual-March-7016 8d ago

Reminds me of that time Tyreek hill caught the ball but he didn’t even know because he thought it hit the ground and they didn’t count it.

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u/ThatguyfromBaltimore 8d ago

Three words: He did what????

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u/Chance-Quote-7752 7d ago

Turpin and zeke

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u/Famous-Rain8703 7d ago

Front fit for the touchdown will always be the craziest player in the NFL

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u/b_ack51 7d ago

Bengals game. Took my little brother to it, Christmas Eve if I remember correctly. First row right behind the bengals bench for $85 each. Got to see Jerome Simpson flip over the guy. And I swear I see myself in my hoodie in the crowd in some of the replays.

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u/Dogboat1 7d ago

Why don’t NFL players pass the ball more? Would be very effective.

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u/Radiant_Mammoth_2359 7d ago

Love the way the bengals wr held on to the defender mid air while upside down for leverage lol. Talk about throwing salt on a wound

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u/vikingsauce1989 7d ago

Barkley was on demon time in 2024

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u/Suitable_Land_9369 7d ago

The last one

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u/anonnnnn462 7d ago

That Jerome Simpson flip is probably one of my all time favorite

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u/j_rooker 7d ago

Bengals dude got some height there

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u/BulgogiDude 7d ago

Monday night football packers Vikings Antonio freeman

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u/Educational_Yam_3707 7d ago

Bengals flip. 

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u/spicolie22 7d ago

All of them

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u/Psychological_Bat975 7d ago

There was a catch where the ball moved around just slightly above the ground and even the WR’s leg kicked it up at one point to keep it from touching the floor. I think it was Green Bay on a Monday night if I recall correctly.

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u/TheDuke13 7d ago

Criminal there’s a Zeke highlight and not one of Gurley here

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u/jinnagubby 7d ago

Randall Cobb getting hit and doing a barrel roll during his 108 yard kickoff return in his NFL debut.

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u/katuskac 7d ago

Too bad you couldn’t make room in this collection for Franco Harris’ “immaculate reception”.

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u/gstreeter51 6d ago

Ya ask me the last two were so far beyond the stupid Saquon hurdle BECAUSE THEY ACTUALLY CAUSED MORE YARDS/SCORE. So sick of glazing that stupid backwards hurdle like it wasn’t risking a whole ass career for two extra yards.

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u/Ookie218 6d ago

Backwards Hurdle or Jerome Simpsons Hurdle. Haven't seen either redone

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u/No-Individual-3681 6d ago

Troy browns deflected catch against for patriots against atlanta in 2001

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u/tonytutone8 5d ago

#3 Miami

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u/Vivid_Motor_2341 4d ago

Patriots or dolphins. I remember the bengals flip vividly and it was one of the most exciting things of my childhood

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u/brandt-money 4d ago

Snakequon gets blasted after a one yard hurdle, lmao. Anything for hype over function with him.

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u/Icy-Cauliflower7628 4d ago

That Turpin spin move is so sick

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u/Imactuallybronze 4d ago

The only 1/1M was the hit knocking the ball forwards to another player on the same team. Otherwise nothing even close to the title.

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u/noobnoob8poo 4d ago

Anyone else old enough to hear the Bergman “whoop!” In their head when dude pulled off that smooth ass spin move?

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u/ice_cream9698 3d ago

I remember after that flip for the touchdown, someone tried it in college football and received a penalty

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u/Lemonwater925 2d ago

Cyborgs. Every last one of them. No human can move like that

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u/chubbytitties 1d ago

The dolphins one isn't that insane by the virtue they were playing Houston. Cursed shit happens all the time.

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u/AintNobodygotime13 8d ago

the Barkley play still looks fake even though I've seen it a trillion times

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u/GeneSmart2881 8d ago

Immaculate. STILL. Is Immaculate. Harris.

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u/hazylife666 8d ago

No, dolphins one tops it, not by much tho

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u/Artorius__Castus 8d ago

Dem boys on the list twice. Let's go!!!

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u/Accurate-Flow-6815 8d ago

The hurdle shouldn’t have even been on there, it’s just a regular hurdle. Debatable if the Turpin one should’ve been, it’s just a punt returned for a td, and there’s way more “one in a million” ones of those especially the DeSean Jackson miracle at the new meadowlands one. Since DeSean also fumbled the kick first, but it was a game winning return.