The Troubling History Of Dropping the Ball at the 1 

You forgot Niners @ Saints Oct 8th 1989. It's the 3rd quarter with the Saints up 17-3. At their own 40, Joe Montana throw a rainbow to Jerry Rice, who catches it at the Saints' 22 and had a clear way to their 1st TD of the game, but Rice loses control of the ball at the Saints' 2, but the refs still counted it as a TD.

Fun fact Terry Bradshaw was my neighbor he has a house out here in Arizona. I wasn’t allowed over because I’m Halloween his wife will be making margaritas😂 My parents love them😂

I'm a real man who doesn't need hedge clippers. I use a razor blade because I'm not a pussy.

Was going to comment this same thing

Same

It's always the white guys doin it too

I thought it was 1 or 2. This happens a lot.

Whenever I made a touchdown, I'd look at the ref and hand him the ball. Worked both times.

@@TheWatchernator That works too.

The Barry Sanders technique: hand the ball directly to the ref after scoring. Guaranteed way to prevent this.

"Act like you have been there before" is the mantra I've always went by and would instill

Teach em to Gronk spike it every time

I mean, Leon Lett's disaster was also self-inflicted....

@adiuntesserande6893 At least Leon Lett was actually holding on to the ball and Don Bebee had to knock it out to make him look stupid.

This ain't that...

Excuse me, I hate to interrupt but you have a call from a "Butt fumble" on line 1....

@@bobsnow6242 He might mean the other dumb play by Leon Lett. Trying to recover a dead ball, from a missed field goal, in the snow, to give the Dolphins a 2nd chance at the winning field goal.

Better yet, give the ball to the ref, *then* celebrate.

These kids want to be like Deion

another plot twist: That's the opposing team's sideline. I'll always remember texting my brother, who is a Vikings fan, to let him know they drafted Jeff Gladney, and he was like "who tf is Jeff Gladney?" Little did we know at the time the kid ("kid" meaning four months my junior) only had two years left to live. Relationship trouble and high speed car crashes are two of the biggest pitfalls for fresh faces in the NFL, and this guy apparently stepped in both. RIP

For the mediocre to average player who wants to have their name mentioned in the same sentence as Jackson, I guess that's the way to do it.

When did fumbling become cool? I can not only do that but drop passes as well, NFL here I come!!

2014 must've been a fun year for you

@@IsaacPunts Bearing in mind that you can't spell 'fun' without 'F-U', yeah....

Same

Duck alum here. Wife attended Utah for awhile. She started to rub it in until Jake Fisher scooped it up and ran it back 100 yds for an Oregon TD. Luckily I didn't have to sleep on the couch that night 😊

Common with certain types of players. They don't look like Peyton manning for instance. Elite athletes, but not so fond of the fundementals

How is a dropping a ball anything worthy of attention?

Just say black players and be done with it....​@@kenw2225

You’re not cutting a prime deshawn jackson

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You cut a player for making a mistake? From the player's perspective it looks like he's already in the end zone. Give the guy a break and tell him not to drop the ball until he's all the way to the baseline

Well you're probably playing a legitimate contest whereas this is clearly sports ENTERTAINMENT in the same vein as pro wrestling.

Yeah it's a bunch of lone wolf narcissists not evidence of a fraudulent sports league/s...

Narcissism is used too inflationary. I would call it Protagonist Syndrome but yeah, I agree on anything else

​@@a.r.4822Watch pre-1980 interviews with athletes. They used to be more intelligent. Yeah, sports used to be slower and more boring because coaches wanted most of their players to have a fair amount of intelligence. Nowadays it's all about pure athleticism, so teams have more idiots on them.

Well, teams, high school and up, could go back to NOT playing mentally defective idiots in the first place. Like how it was pre-1980. The over the top celebrating started to get worse in the 80's and afterwards, basically because coaches increasingly look for athleticism and didn't care how stupid the player was.

How is that the fault of the media? The players should be intelligent enough to not make a mistake like this.

Champ Bailey getting run down by Ben Watson was a rough one...

So I'm assuming this was your epiphany to finally see that it's all rigged?

@@IndependentWhistleblower rigged? No. It's just players being dumb. Not everything in this world is rigged. And in case you think I am naive, I have played sports with guys who were literally this dumb and this unaware. Talented guys that have cost us games because they had their head that far up their rear.

Even an army bowl from the early 2000's? Or some nothing fcs game? No way those young morons gonna keep that quiet. Even the NFL. Some CTE riddled fool or some jealous owner, a spited ref would have spilled it by now. I think its obvious to say individual attempts have been made by certain people to sway the outcome of certain games but I think to say it's all 100% rigged is silly.

I definitely will

As do I. As a Utes fan, that one play is embedded deep in my memory.

Thanks Brotha

we are definitely up!

A game against the Lions he got stripped at the 1 yard line show boating instead of scoring an easy TD.

I believe I do have that one in there

@@IsaacPunts Oh crap you're right, nice job!! I was at that game with my mother and I was so excited to finally see that play happen live

I agree, something I have to do better next time

I saw that one and called it a Leon Lett

Georgia also did it in 2008 in its opening game vs ha southern on a punt return. It was still a blowout on a fringe game so nobody knows about it. Asher allen

Most of these guys are HORRENDOUS with money, they’d either not care or brag it up like that celebration cost 50k boi! 50k to a guy that makes $5M with $600k in debt to a jewelry store

IDK there were 2 Alabama plays in there, arguably one of the most disciplined teams

No theory or anything. What a disappointment.