old Double Reverse question
old Double Reverse question
I remember someone asking about a "double reverse" on the old forum, but I couldn't find the thread here. Anyways, found an instance of a double reverse and wanted to report on it. Bengals at Redskins in 1985, 4th quarter, Bengals have ball and are leading 24-20. Sam Wyche calls for the double reverse...Esiason takes the snap and hands off to James Brooks heading right...Eddie Brown is circling back and takes the ball from Brooks...Brown then hands off to Collinsworth, who is running toward the strongside...Collinsworth is hit and fumbles, Washington recovers, and then drives for the game-winning TD.
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Re: old Double Reverse question
But... what is the question?
Meanwhile, although not a double-reverse, there is a cute story about New York Giants Eastern Division Championship Game versus the hated Cleveland Browns.
The Giants won and went on to (unfortunately) lose the greatest game ever played - AND - will live in history as one of the teams in the game that was a major factor in launching the popularity of professional football.
The following is excerpted from the indicated Mike Lupica article in the New York Daily News.
GOOD-TIME CHARLIE CONERLY WAS GIANT OF THE '50S
BY MIKE LUPICA NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Wednesday, February 14, 1996, 12:00 AM
"...There were three Sundays Giant fans of an age will never forget. There was the last regular-season game against the Browns, the Giants needing to beat the Browns just to force a playoff game with them for the Eastern Division title the next Sunday. The game was played at Yankee Stadium and in the snow and finally it was 10-10 at the end. Then Pat Summerall somehow kicked the ball 49 yards through the snow and the Giants somehow stayed alive. The next week, the Giants won again. The only touchdown was a reverse. Conerly handed it to Alex Webster and Webster handed it to Gifford, and all of a sudden Gifford was in the clear. When he got inside the 10, Gifford noticed the only player close to him, the only one running with him, was 37-year-old Charlie Conerly. Instead of taking the ball in himself, Gifford theatrically flipped it to Conerly, the old Mississippi tailback, who managed to take it the rest of the way. When the two got back to the sidelines, No. 42, still out of breath, went looking for No. 16. "The next time I give you the ----ing ball," Conerly said, "would you mind holding onto the ----ing thing?
"The next Sunday, the Giants lost to the Colts in sudden death. Johnny Unitas was the star quarterback that day, not Conerly, and Alan Ameche finally scored in overtime. But pro football was on the map in this country. Gifford has always said New York fell in love with the Giants in 1956, when the Giants killed the Bears and won the NFL title, and that the country fell in love with football after the Giants vs. Colts in '58. And Conerly was under center for all of it..."
If anyone is interested, the sequence of photos of the play and the text that appeared with those photos is available.
Just ask...
Meanwhile, although not a double-reverse, there is a cute story about New York Giants Eastern Division Championship Game versus the hated Cleveland Browns.
The Giants won and went on to (unfortunately) lose the greatest game ever played - AND - will live in history as one of the teams in the game that was a major factor in launching the popularity of professional football.
The following is excerpted from the indicated Mike Lupica article in the New York Daily News.
GOOD-TIME CHARLIE CONERLY WAS GIANT OF THE '50S
BY MIKE LUPICA NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Wednesday, February 14, 1996, 12:00 AM
"...There were three Sundays Giant fans of an age will never forget. There was the last regular-season game against the Browns, the Giants needing to beat the Browns just to force a playoff game with them for the Eastern Division title the next Sunday. The game was played at Yankee Stadium and in the snow and finally it was 10-10 at the end. Then Pat Summerall somehow kicked the ball 49 yards through the snow and the Giants somehow stayed alive. The next week, the Giants won again. The only touchdown was a reverse. Conerly handed it to Alex Webster and Webster handed it to Gifford, and all of a sudden Gifford was in the clear. When he got inside the 10, Gifford noticed the only player close to him, the only one running with him, was 37-year-old Charlie Conerly. Instead of taking the ball in himself, Gifford theatrically flipped it to Conerly, the old Mississippi tailback, who managed to take it the rest of the way. When the two got back to the sidelines, No. 42, still out of breath, went looking for No. 16. "The next time I give you the ----ing ball," Conerly said, "would you mind holding onto the ----ing thing?
"The next Sunday, the Giants lost to the Colts in sudden death. Johnny Unitas was the star quarterback that day, not Conerly, and Alan Ameche finally scored in overtime. But pro football was on the map in this country. Gifford has always said New York fell in love with the Giants in 1956, when the Giants killed the Bears and won the NFL title, and that the country fell in love with football after the Giants vs. Colts in '58. And Conerly was under center for all of it..."
If anyone is interested, the sequence of photos of the play and the text that appeared with those photos is available.
Just ask...
"It was a different game when I played.
When a player made a good play, he didn't jump up and down.
Those kinds of plays were expected."
~ Arnie Weinmeister
When a player made a good play, he didn't jump up and down.
Those kinds of plays were expected."
~ Arnie Weinmeister