Desperation Laterals That Actually Worked (RARE) 

“Gronkowski… didn’t have the angle…!” Put that down in legendary commentator lines in sports history

1:24 Fun Fact. They were down 7 Points before this play, and still lost because the kicker missed the extra point afterwards lol

As a Saints fan, thank you for ending our clip when you did. Not that there was anything terrible and traumatic afterwards, but just, you know, because.

“THE BAND IS OUT ON THE FIELD” that’s my favorite one 😂

Fins beating the Pats will always be historical

This video made me realize how cool rugby is

I love how after everything the saints did to score the touchdown, they still missed the extra point.

"Oh the band IS OUT ON THE FIELD!!! HE'S GONNA GO INTO THE ENDZONE!" 😂😂

#86 for Miami took out two guys on the same block. Absolutely monstrous and singlehandedly made that play work.

Legend has it that Gronkowski still doesn't have the angle.

Why does Cooper Rush have two of those 💀

Didn't know you could score a touchdown with 30 extra men on the field. I wonder why they don't use that more often.

GREAT RUGBY HIGHLIGHTS!

You’re my favorite sports YT channel because you put me onto that amazing Aphex Twin song you use in your outros, I start my weekends with that song and a cup of coffee. God Bless you homie

That Trinity touchdown is one of my absolute favorite sports moments ever because the way the commentator leads into it makes it sound like it was destined to happen

The blindside block at 0:37. Wow! 1:22 Only to have John Carney miss the extra point and lose the game.

As a player for Trinity U, that play is immortalized for our program

With the skill level of modern NFL laterals are really under used. They have the ablity to catch one handed and all kinds of things now. It's nuts.

How is this not done regularly? This kind of play makes American Football interesting.

Gronkowski Didn't Have The Angle. it never gets old

Courageous play by Miami, but THREE clips not called, at 0:33 by no. 18, at 0:36 by no. 86 and and 0:45 by no. 1, helped them.

Of course had to start with the Miami Duke lateral

I was going into college the year that Millsaps play happened. I played at a D3 school in the same conference as Millsaps and that play was all we talked about in training camp freshman year.

Fantastic compilation

its weird to think that Cooper Rush appeared as the QB in 2 of these clips

2:10 the flag on the left side 😂

Watching the maricle in Miami live will always be one of the most memorable moments in NFL history to me. I was freaking out yelling at my tv hehe

The play at 2:26 literally took over a minute

Titans still threw a forward pass and not a lateral. -Disgruntled Bills fan who lived through the Curse of the Music City Miracle for 17 non playoff years

Music City Nightmare 😥

@Savage Brick Sports thanks brother! This brings back memories. As you can see by my name, I’m a Titans and Canes fan. Titan up and go CANES baby! 🗡🙌

When football becomes rugby

The band is on the field! The band is on the field!

Who's the guy at 3:15 just watching in the field? Go chase at least

Cooper Rush had 2 laterals be successful......

North Cobb Christian had a crazy lateral play this year too

3:55 that, to me, is a forward pass

3:24 #35 on purple was like man i give up

Hunter Henry had one for Arkansas on a 4th and 26 that I didn’t see on here

That Saints one was legendary. Nothing could mess it up…nothing…

That should be a penalty for the band being on the field lol

It's basically rugby at that point

0:50 the player who ran on the field should have been flagged for entering the field before play ended.

Alternate title: Times when Pitchy Pitchy Woo Woo ACTUALLY WORKED

I gotta remember that when videos like this come up, the fucking Music City Miracle will be replayed.

saints had a forward lateral on that one

Ok at 3:23 what the hell is that guy doing just watching 😂😂

Absolutely criminal you left out the Boise State Hook and Ladder

I have commented on the Miami vs Duke lateral game before and I will say it again. The Hurricanes TD should not have counted because one of their players runs into the field of of play from the sideline before the ball carrier crosses the goal line at around the 10 or so. It is number 11 who is in violation. Not sure how the refs did not catch it. I know it got looked at for a review but the last I checked that kind of thing was illegal at all levels of the game of football.

2:14 why is the band out on the field??

Is that Central Michigan qb the same Cooper Rush that's on the Cowboys now?

Cooper rush the pick six king is also the lateral king 😂😂

You forgot the "game winning" lateral for the Patriots vs Raiders. That one "worked" for me :)

I hated rundowns in baseball because I kept score. It would be a 3-6-2-5-1-4-2-6 out. How the hell do you score these plays ?? These desperation laterals could get more than 100 yards on one play.

I wish they did this more often

3:21 The defense should of still kept going and stop them but they hesitate and stop because they thought the player threw a foward pass and the ball hit the ground yet they still should try to get the ball until their opponent was officially down.

Why do they use lineman on this play? Imagine they line up with 4 RBs 4 WRs and 3DBs.

The action in which the musical band and part of the attendance literally invaded the pitch, when the ball was still in play shouldn't have been regular

Not a Lateral or anything but last year my high school pulled off a major upset. We beat the the #2 team Lindale. We were down 2 touchdowns with like 4 minutes left and keep in mind it’s in Lindale. We ended up driving down the field and lobbing a fade to our 6’4 wide receiver ( who is now playing for smu ) for a touchdown. Then we stopped them on 4th down. Our announcers yelling “AND HE’S STOPPED! AND YOUR KAUFMAN LIONS SNUFFED IT OUT!” Then again we went down the field and and with like 20 seconds left…..”Clamin in shotgun he drops back throws it up for Daylon and Daylon OHHHHHHHHH OHHHHHHHHH! TOUCHDOWN OHHHHHHHH! LETS GOOOOOO! WHOOOOOO!” Probably the greatest high school football call I’ve ever heard. We lobbed it up for daylon in the end zone and he came down with it in the corner. We went for two to make it a 3 point game and we got it. Then on 4th down for them on pretty much the last play of the game we hit the qb in the backfield but he stayed up. Our defense chased him and got to him and hit him hard, he got picked up in the air and he tried a desperation throw but he got stripped and we fell on it. Me and my dad yelling and screaming. There ended up being a penalty on us like some kind of unsportsmanlike conduct or something which game them the ball and they had one more play. They threw it up and we knocked it down. And we beat the #2 team in 4A Lindale 39-36 in their stadium. We ended up going like 8-3 and going to the second round of the playoffs and lost in a close battle with La Vega another high ranked team. Daylon got hurt in that game so I like to say we would have won if he didn’t get hurt and we probably would have. This year Lindale came to our stadium And we beat them on a game winning touchdown run by our sophomore running back. We beat them 24-17 with a sophomore qb and a sophomore running back because our starting rb got hurt. We are 4-1 right now and are on by week. Sorry just got a bit bored and decided to right this. You can see both livestreams of the game and other videos on my high schools RU-vid channel Roartv. We actually have over 1k subscribers which is cool.

@3:15 dude out of shape lol

Good thing for Cal, that was before the days of instant reply, cause guy tossing the third lateral, his knee is awful close to being down when he's getting rid of the ball. Also, did that high school really have a principal named Chalmers?

A lot of these probably shouldn't have counted, especially that first one. for example: 06:10 looks like a fumble and so does 06:23, idk if 06:43 is a forward pass or not due to the video quality 10:16 the play before this one was a fourth down intentional grounding penalty as time expired, game should've ended there because it's an offensive penalty, but refs incorrectly gave Central Michigan an untimed down

That duke Miami play still pisses me off. Total BS.

Being a Miami fan, this video had two vids I liekes

That Miami/Duke play is still the worst officiated play in college football history

The Titans one is sus...... looks like the dude threw a forward pass.... ion know for sure but..........

Cooper Rush x2.

I don’t blame some of the college players gassing out at the end of a game like that. Sometimes your chest just feels like you’re about to drop dead 😅

Is Cooper Rush the clutchest QB of all time?

wait, central michigan did it TWICE???

Should not have counted as a td in that Duke game, player's knee was down.

The first one should have been called back with a terrible block in the back at 35 seconds

Announcer:Take it short lateral they practiced that on Wednesday

The Titans threw an illegal forward pass. I thought it when I seen it originally that day in TV and I will say to this day that it was an illegal forward pass.

To all the people dunking on us patriot fans….I was at the game it was cool to watch no lie, but we won the Super Bowl that year so it’s really not the painful ownage you think it is. We don’t think about it at all lol. Try the helmet catch.

It's cool at the end of games but imagine how annoying the shit would be if they did it more often lol. Technically they could lateral on every single play if they wanted.

3:44 The instant karma play. It was no music city miracle... To bench fan and all-world favourite, regular season starter Doug Flutie Flakes for Johnson was a major sin by a selfish owner (crumpy old rich man Wilson) wanting his big dollar QB play the playoffs. The curse will hold for 86 years. Sorry Bills fans. No SB with Josh Allen. You have to wait until 2085.

Should have been a penalty 3:55. That was a forward pass!

This should be how you play the game normally.

Massive illegal hit 😢 no?

2:27

I hate these plays so much. game is over. just give it up. update: I can’t even finish watching this video.

It's funny how commentators call these plays "miracles". But it seems like laterals are the easiest way to score a touchdown. Am I wrong?

Titans one against the bills was a forward pass

So on the one hand humanity can count literature, engineering, science, technology, art, music, medicine, math, and philosophy among the highest accomplishments and on the other hand we have these people who run and throw balls. Lessee, which do we need these days?...

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Hilarious how the bears cave in with a game ending td hitting one of the team staffs as he dives in. Lol

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