The GUTSIEST Field Goal in NFL HISTORY | Mark Moseley | Redskins @ Eagles (1977)

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There are certain field goals that have no business whatsoever being attempted, and seem like a really bad idea on paper. Against all conventional wisdom, in a 1977 game against the Philadelphia Eagles, Washington kicker Mark Moseley went out for a 54-yard field goal, despite the odds being completely stacked against him. He drilled it. This is the story behind the gutsiest field goal in NFL history
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Players on the 1977 Redskins:
Billy Kilmer
Joe Theismann
Clarence Harmon
Calvin Hill
Jim Kiick
John Riggins
Mike Thomas
Danny Buggs
Frank Grant
Charley Taylor
Jean Fugett
Jerry Smith
Len Hauss
Ted Fritsch
Terry Hermeling
Bob Kuziel
Dan Nugent
Ron Saul
George Starle
Tim Stokes
Dave Butz
Bill Brundige
Dallas Hickman
Dennis Johnson
Karl Lorch
Ron McDole
Diron Talbert
Mike Curtis
Brad Dusek
Chris Hanburger
Harold McLinton
Rusty Tillman
Eddie Brown
Pat Fischer
Ken Houston
Joe Lavender
Brig Owens
Jake Scott
Gerard Williams
Mike Bragg
Mark Moseley
George Allen (coach)
Players on the 1977 Eagles:
Ron Jaworski
James Betterson
Cleveland Franklin
Mike Hogan
Wilbert Montgomery
Tom Sullivan
Harold Carmichael
Wally Henry
Vince Papale
Charlie Smith
Keith Krepfle
Richard Osborne
Dennis Franks
Ed George
Donnie Green
Wade Key
Tom Luken
Guy Morriss
Jerry Sisemore
Stan Walters
Lem Burnham
Carl Hairston
Charlie Johnson
Pete Lazetick
Manny Sistrunk
Art Thoms
Bill Bergey
John Bunting
Frank LeMaster
Drew Mahalic
James Reed
Terry Tautolo
Herm Edwards
Eric Johnson
Randy Logan
John Outlaw
John Sanders
Ove Johansson
Spike Jones
Horst Muhlmann
Dick Vermeil (coach)

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@evancortez2 3 года назад

This is why Mose is the only kicker in NFL history to win the MVP award

@Jiltedin2007 3 года назад

In what year? I remembered him missing 4 Field Goals against the 49’ers in the 1983 NFC Championship Game.

@americankulak2294 3 года назад

Odd, I thought it was because MVP awards are selected by idiots with no statistical logic, and a clear bias towards big market teams.

@Jiltedin2007 3 года назад

@GIL Favor Oh, the year that the Redskins beat the Miami Dolphins in Super Bowl XVII. John Riggins was the Super Bowl MVP.

@jeremydobbs9308 3 года назад

Mosely was no joke. You don't carve out a 17 year career by sucking. He was the last kicker to kick traditional style, though something tells me somebody came around for a couple games in the 90s kicking straight ahead

@DolFan316 3 года назад

@@Jiltedin2007 It was '82, the first season I started to seriously follow the NFL. Naturally there was a strike. But Mosely that season literally almost never missed a kick (he finally did in the finale but the Skins won 28-0 so it didn't matter) and back then that was a Really Big Deal since the average NFL kicker's accuracy was around 68%.

@quasidiem99 3 года назад

Washington is the team of my childhood. I miss those days.

@whynot2734 3 года назад

mine to brother I remember Billy Kilmer quarterback way back in the day

@davidozab2753 3 года назад

Me too

@williammcdorman6426 3 года назад

Yep, we all do, Hail to the Redskins.

@evancortez2 3 года назад

and now Mose is the Vice President for Franchising for Five Guys burger, so he's always been a winner!

@evancortez2 3 года назад

OK relax Karen

@larrym5120 Год назад

I got to meet Mark back in the late 70s he was at a store signing autographs in Falls Church VA. He was super nice to us.

@redmustangredmustang 3 года назад

Back then 54 yards was like kicking a 60 plus field goal today. Not many kickers could accomplish that especially in the 1970's. Today if your kicker can't make it from say 50 or 52 yards, then they won't be an NFL kicker for very long.

@michaelkearns7352 3 года назад

54 yards has always been 54 yards. When the goal posts were on the goal line, a 54 yard field goal was kicked from your own 46 yard line. Today it's kicked from the opponents 44 yard line, but it's still 54 yards

@gerrypeet4861 3 года назад

Except back then somebody did kick the ball almost 10 yards further. Do your research.

@michaelkearns7352 3 года назад

@@gerrypeet4861 "somebody" did? Really? Who was that somebody? I really don't care if somebody kicked the ball 100 yards. Maybe they had stronger legs. Maybe the balls were different. BUT, 54 yards has always been 54 yards. Learns some math.

@gerrypeet4861 3 года назад

@@michaelkearns7352First of all I wasn't talking to you kid. Second of all 54 yards was not spectacular at that time. Well here's your math Einstein. Tom Dempsey of the New Orleans Saints kicked a 63 yard field goal in 1970. The math is 63 yards is 9 yards longer than 54 yards. Additional math is 1970 is 7 years earlier than 1977. By the time 1977 rolled around kicking a 54 yard field goal was not groundbreaking by any stretch of the imagination. Mark Mosely couldn't make short kicks. He missed 4 field goals in the NFC Championship against the 49ers in 1983 until he finally hit one at the end of the game. Almost singlehandedly cost the Redskins a Super Bowl birth that year but he continued his shit leg against the Raiders when he missed a Field goal and an extra point when the game was still close. Had he made those the game may have turned out very different. No matter. Joe Gibbs recognized that he was a liability and cut him anyway.

@michaelkearns7352 3 года назад

@@gerrypeet4861 I know all about Tom Dempsey kicking a 63 yard field goal. I saw it when he kicked it. But guess what, genius, 63 yards then, is still 63 yards today! Unlike money, the value of measurement never changes.!

@tomb4575 3 года назад

I remember when Theisman began his Redskin career as a holder and 3rd string QB to Sonny Jurgenson and Billy Kilmer.

@anthonybrooks5040 3 года назад

Theismann was also an occasional KR for Washington following his CFL stint with the Argos.

@michaelkearns7352 3 года назад

He returned kicks, just to get into the game

@anthonybrooks5040 3 года назад

@@michaelkearns7352 back in '74, veteran QBs Sonny Jurgensen and Billy Kilmer easily put Theismann third on the depth chart. Joe was obviously eager to get in where he could fit in.

@chrisslaughter5552 3 года назад

He got tired of sitting the bench he wanted to play he start returning Punts yes Joe Theismann did and pretty good at it...It’s on here highlights of his punt returns

@michaelkearns7352 3 года назад

@@anthonybrooks5040 no kidding. That's basically what I said. Theisman was willing to do anything to get into the game, so he returned kicks

@rrmarshall3239 3 года назад

This kick was the making of Mark Moseley. After this kick he became MARK MOSELEY, one of the most recognized big game kickers in the NFL. He would go on to become the only kicker in history to win the NFL MVP Award in the strike-shortened 1982 season. Not to mention here in 1977 he was already becoming the last of his breed, a straight-ahead toe kicker in a league that was being rapidly consumed by soccer-style kickers. BTW, I think the fact that Moseley would have such a strong wind behind him nudged George Allen into making the call for the FG.

@crackerjack9320 2 года назад

Has there been a straight on kicker since? I had no idea Jaws could even run. Happy you added that clip

@jeremybiewer5465 2 года назад

Steve Cox 1987 was the last straight on attempt. Washington Redskins...

@bens5661 3 года назад

4:59 pretty crazy how they show the temperature in both Celsius and Fahrenheit, this was when the Carter administration was making that push

@astrostar49 3 года назад

Good eye.

@richardgazinia5482 3 года назад

The Metric System "law" was passed during the Ford administration but was kicking around since at least Johnson's term. I was in middle school in the mid 70s and don't remember them teaching it to me or my classmates other than a casual mention occasionally. I do remember them talking about it having to be implemented by 1980 but that never happened. Here's a short article about America's "conversion" to the metric system. As to why CBS showed the temp in both I haven't a clue.

@elwin38 3 года назад

I remember when my mom bought me the 1979 World Book encyclopedias. Everything that was related to numbers had the standard(American) numbering and the metrics were in parenthesis.

@toastnjam7384 3 года назад

I recall MLB putting the outfield dimensions in meters. It just didn't look right.

@andrejg4136 3 года назад

@@toastnjam7384 I mean being someone hard into the sciences, everything is Metric(Imperial) or Imperial(Metric) so I'm used to doubled notation either way.

@alexgillespie9603 3 года назад

Thats what MVP's do

@AB-bg1or 2 года назад

Last of the straight away kickers.

@tygrkhat4087 3 года назад

Number 79 for the Redskins was Ron McDole, who played from 1961-78 with the Cardinals, Oilers, Bills and Redskins. If you notice, even in 1977, he was still wearing an old-school double bar facemask; the same as HoF WR Charley Taylor.

@akbarlebowitz8151 3 года назад

"The Dancing Bear".

@habbadabbado5765 3 года назад

He was clutch many times over

@alfonsecoppola5938 3 года назад

i hated mosely,he hit a 50 yarder against the giants,no time on the clock in a snow storm to beat the giants.great kicker

@albertkundrat4624 3 года назад

I dimly remember this unusual Event from the Past; yet, for Today, Thursday, June 17, 2021 an aberrantly irregular sequence of weirdly abnormal daily happenings brought me to this stunning Recollection, as presented here!

@brucestewart7371 2 года назад

I was 16 when this happened. I was watching the game. Another classic video. I honestly don’t know how you do it. But keep doing it!! 😁

@vincelovato3083 3 года назад

FYI: in those days, if you missed a FG that was not returned, the other team got the ball on its 20 yard line. Great video.

@Scrapmanluke1 3 года назад

No, that was changed in 1974. In 1977 you got the ball at the previous line of scrimmage, in this case the 37. The current rule of the spot of the kick was put in place in 1994.

@shanetrimble9265 2 года назад

Is that Don Criqui and Sonny Jurgensen?

@bjdon99 3 года назад

Some bad camera angles for the winning kick, even for 1977. Also, I notice that during the brief 'metric system' push during the Carter Administration, they listed the field temperature as 3C/ 37F at the intro.

@OfficialJaguarGator9 3 года назад

I think the most shocking thing while researching this was (a) the fact that there was no reverse angle, even though the broadcast used it on every other FG, and (b) the fact that they didn’t show any replays from another angle

@bjdon99 3 года назад

This video gets the award for the most pop up and embeded advertisement videos

@dennisheron7355 3 года назад

no shit, very annoying

@TheDavBow3 Год назад

I believe I heard Sonny Jurgensen as 1 of the commentators of this game. Pretty cool!

@nasetvideos 3 года назад

That was one great field goal. He got all of it, for sure. A gutsy decision by Allen as coach and the kick really did have no business working with all odds against it. Sometimes, you just go with your gut and believe in the players...hence, definitely one of the "gutsiest kicks in NFL history".

@DolFan316 3 года назад

Mosely was the last NFL kicker to use the straight ahead style over the soccer style BTW.

@johntabler349 2 года назад

I fell in love with football watching Allen's teams and I remember the heartbreak of missing the playoffs that year and. Moseley was always at his best when the game was on the line

@chrisslaughter5552 3 года назад

That right there is why he’s MVP and in the Hall of Fame...It’s the Uniform he wearing..How would any Native American dislike.. The recognition, the respect , Our Love for them not letting them be Forgotten..Greatest emblem in all Sports..As a life Long Redskin fan for almost a Half Century I never ever took it as Derogatory or as a insult..It’s special to have a billion dollar team that has Won the The World Championship 5 times for their recognization and their fans..Like living in a City and rooting on Your City’s team It’s their team That’s meant for respect for The good of the Indian People..Redskins is a term for Bravery, Warriors Fearless..Survivors Inventors Unbreakable Unbeatable that would fight til death..Now we Wailing sob sobbing on the trail of Tears..because Those people No longer have someone to Represent them Glorify them They’re not Bears Or Lions Or Weak Cowboys That Humps stuff They Herd Hump Hog Hump, Heifers Hump See yours way more respected than Goat humpers..like the Cowboys do You’re talking Redskins They are unique they have their own dances songs Leaders inventors their own Army, Police Force, Own Pharmacy Peace negotiator the pipes...grow crops and Like the Natives they will be forgotten...Top of Civilization HTTR...Not those Wantabe Cowboys are Embarrassment those mommy boys.

@gerrypeet4861 3 года назад

Mark Mosely is not in the Hall of Fame and he never will be. That said no one cares about whatever the fuck else you are attempting to say.

@SDChargers93 3 года назад

Exactly I’m angry they changed the same because most native Americans didn’t care you see they didn’t change the blackhawks name they straight up said they loved the name. To me they will forever be the redskins

@gerrypeet4861 3 года назад

@@SDChargers93 Who is they? This is two different leagues and two separately privately run organizations. You shouldn't get mad at any private business changing their them. "They" have the right to do so.

@joeyrincones9308 3 года назад

@@gerrypeet4861 ...Gerry, I'll stand with about the politics comment but I disagree with your comment of Moseley not Hall of Fame worthy. In his era he was perhaps regarded as the most dangerous/ feared kicker in the league. I'm not going to post his career numbers here....too lengthy....but he did lead the league and or conference on several occasions in total scoring by a kicker, field goals attempted or made. Also, at the time of his retirement, he did have the NFL record for most points scored in a season by a kicker in a single season. If not for Paul Hornung playing both offense and kicker, Moseley would had had the record for overall points in a season by a player. When the NFL investigates your kicking shoe, as his was upon request by then Eagles coach Dick Vermeil, for allegedly having a "loaded" shoe, you know the guy has to be good. Ultimately, the crowning achievement was him winning MVP. A pinnacle that will never, ever be done again by a special teams player or kicker.

@gerrypeet4861 3 года назад

@@joeyrincones9308 Loaded shoes were in fact common in sports in the 1980s. Dick Vermeil was correct to have Mosely checked for it, which he likely had but was able to trick the referees when in fact all of the fans could tell he was doing something to his shoe when he kicked the ground with his toe before every field goal, especially a long one. Mosely was a crafty rulebreaker who never got caught. The Iron Sheik had a similar shoe and did the same exact thing with his toes before kicking someone and injuring them. The loaded shoe was never proven but likely commonplace in all sports in the 1980s.

@sneakerfacevids441 3 года назад

He had the wind on his side that time.

@supersawyer358 Год назад

The crazy thing about this guy, his stats are not that great. As bad as Scott Norwood was, he was 72% to Mosley 65%.

@MrRETEROROB 3 года назад

a hard fought season for The Redskins that year. and it would be George Allan's last year as coach.

@surfshack2 7 месяцев назад

I was at this game.

@elwin38 3 года назад

Washington ended up missing the 1977 playoffs to the Bears on point differential(just like in 1979).

@Rockhound6165 3 года назад

I believe he has a video on this but it might be for another season.

@DolFan316 3 года назад

About the point differential thing... The Skins actually had a higher PD for the season than the Bears, +7 to +2. HOWEVER...point differential in CONFERENCE games was a thing in the playoff tiebreaker. Getting destroyed 47-0 by an AFC team (Oilers) that season actually helped Chicago make the playoffs, believe it or not.

@akbarlebowitz8151 3 года назад

It's cold, windy and the Philly Eagles are wearing those shitty fishnet jerseys!!

@robertlevine2827 3 года назад

How about them in the Fog Bowl in Chicago, guaranteed to be invisible with their white jerseys, silver pants, and proverbially pea-soup-green helmets?

@hollywood3190 Год назад

Moseley belongs in the NFL Hall of Fame

@dtplusthepoints3409 3 года назад

Great video (as always), and much appreciated! However, I will play devil's advocate as far as being the MOST gutsy FG att. Tho their punter was great, if he failed, then they would only net 17 yds. They wouldnt be getting it at the 44 yd line, but the 37, which, back then, was the rule. Teams didnt get the ball from where it was kicked, but at the line of scrimmage. That has since been changed, of course. Still pretty damn gutsy tho.

@richardgazinia5482 3 года назад

I think in 77 missed field goals were still treated as touchbacks, as long as they reached the goal line.

@dtplusthepoints3409 3 года назад

@@richardgazinia5482 Im pretty sure that ended w the 1970, w 1971 being the 1st year without that rule. From '74 to '93, the defensive team was awarded the ball at the line of scrimmage, unless the FG was from inside the red zone (20 yd line or closer), in which case they got it on the 20

@chuckcloud2392 3 года назад

My father and uncle were at this game and I remember Dad coming home and saying he couldn’t believe that he made the kick. I was 9 years old but I’ve always remembered this!

@krein7951 3 года назад

Pat Summerall's 49-yard kick in 1958 against the Browns was the most clutch kick in NFL History.

@davidlafleche1142 3 года назад

Adam Viniateri's 45-yarder in heavy snow, 2001.

@krein7951 3 года назад

@@davidlafleche1142 Summerall's kick beat the Browns and was also in the snow. It forced a playoff in which the Giants won 10-0. The next week the Giants and Colts played for the NFL Championship dubbed "The Greatest Game Ever played". The game was the most important game in the history of the NFL because for the first time they played before a national audience.

@NosferatusCoffin 3 года назад

I remember watching this, not just because of the FG, but also for this being Horst Muhlmann's, the Eagles kicker, last NFL game. Vermeil cut him the next day, after he had a terrible game and uneven season, at best. They signed Nick Mike-Mayer and he was perfect the rest of the season.

@karlcooper8460 3 года назад

He had a decent year in Cleveland from what I remembered

@Jiltedin2007 3 года назад

The same Mark Moseley who missed 4 Field Goals in the 1983 NFC Championship Game?

@brianjungen4059 3 года назад

6 years later and on a crappy field....yes.

@philchroniger7839 3 года назад

And still kicked the game winner with 40 seconds left

@brianjungen4059 3 года назад

@@philchroniger7839 yep.

@coryburris8211 3 года назад

Who was the announcer paired with Pat Summerall? It's strange hearing someone other than Madden.

@philchroniger7839 3 года назад

I believe that was Sonny Jurgensen

@akbarlebowitz8151 3 года назад

That was actually Don Criqui, not Pat Summerall. Mr. Summerall was paired with Tom Brookshier in 1977.

@akbarlebowitz8151 3 года назад

@@philchroniger7839 Yes, former Redskins QB Sonny Jurgensen with Don Criqui.

@coryburris8211 3 года назад

@@akbarlebowitz8151 thanks, now I'm trying to remember who he was paired with during the 80s

@jorgejefferson8251 3 года назад

HTTR forever!!!!!!!!

@PaulMcGuire-ro1rn 10 месяцев назад

Sonny Jurgensen on the call

@johnliberty3647 3 года назад

A lot of Mosley Trivia, you could do about 10 more videos on him. He was the last of the conventional kickers, although I believe Steve Cox and maybe others were still doing them as a part time gig. Mosley also had BFFs on the team when most kickers have no friends on the team. Dave Butz and Joe Thiesman would ride to games in a car pool with Mosley and he wasn't a tag along guy they were good friends. Despite not being a soccer style kicker he grew up playing soccer when he lived abroad in Ecuador (or some other pacific coast nation in South America, forgot which one if I am wrong). I could go on. Mosley is probably one of the most interesting kickers in NFL history and in 1982 he was the NFL MVP.

@michaelsmith5769 3 года назад

I remember Cox would do the long field goals and punt for the Redskins.

@johnliberty3647 3 года назад

@@michaelsmith5769 Yep, he did kickoffs and even filled in for all field goals and XPs when Jess Atkinson was injured on opening day in 1987 against the eagles.

@ragnarlothbrok9133 2 года назад

@@michaelsmith5769 true. I remember Cox hitting one from over 50 right before the half as Mosley didn’t have that distance anymore. I think against Seattle.

@johnliberty3647 2 года назад

@@ragnarlothbrok9133 57 yards against Seattle in 1986, 54 against the Eagles that same season in the season opener, and a 48 yarder against the Broncos not because it was too long for Max Zendajas, but because Zendajas had the accuracy of Stevie Wonder at a firing range.

@ragnarlothbrok9133 2 года назад

@@johnliberty3647 Andre “Dirty” Waters broke his leg on an extra point.

@GVike 3 года назад

Something else to consider: this was not a soccer style kick. This was the old way, and it was not as accurate.

@brianmiller1077 3 года назад

Straight on kickers look weird now.

@tygrkhat4087 3 года назад

Moseley was the last of a dying breed. When he retired at the end of the 1986 season, the era of the straight-on kicker was over.

@Wannaknowmyname1 3 года назад

Wonder how strong that wind was, kick looked good from 56

@TheoRadcliffe 3 года назад

Wow what a terrible angle, Nfl has improved so much.

@DolFan316 3 года назад

Another way they've improved is stat tracking. If that game happens today the announcers point out that Mosely has never hit a kick longer than 49 yards his entire career but back then nobody even thought about stuff like that, which from a modern perspective is just bizarre.

@lawrencetaylor4101 3 года назад

Ah, the days of the toes.

@jpdornberger 3 года назад

Mark Moseley missed most of his kicks as an Eagle, that's why he was on the 'Skins!

@chrisslaughter5552 3 года назад

I thought he played for the Oilers first He got MVP for game winning kicks..He finished in Cleveland..See how he kicks barefooted

@eugenedenbrook322 3 года назад

Did he hit the game winner against the Jets, the double OT division round in 86'?

@icezebra77 3 года назад

@@chrisslaughter5552 Eagles first, then Oilers.

@gramps5157 3 года назад

Yes, when he was here he couldn't make the extra point.

@w41duvernay 3 года назад

WHY am I not surprised Moseley had this title.

@stellertonybeller1972 3 года назад

he missed a few for Cleveland against the NY Jets in the 86 playoff's .... had to go to double overtime to win .

@CTubeMan 3 года назад

So that was the first time in the 1970s Chicago beat Washington in a wild card tiebreaker.

@OfficialJaguarGator9 3 года назад

For those who haven't seen, when Chicago did it again in 1979: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-fVwH06CFRJ4.html

@DolFan316 3 года назад

@@OfficialJaguarGator9 You need to do a video on how losing a game 47-0 actually helped the '77 Bears make the playoffs. Seriously.

@frankpalancio8471 3 года назад

Not that big a deal..the first 2 kicks were into a strong wind which is why he missed so badly. The game winner was with that strong wind at his back. If they were going the opposite direction, there is no way Allen sends Mosely out there again. He would have punted.

@oldprankster7606 3 года назад

The last of the straight-on kickers. After Moseley, It was all soccer style.

@dynamobahamas 3 года назад

Actually with a strong wind to Washingtons back and knowing that the eagles would have to go into that same head wind if he missed that wasn't that bad of a call by the coach.He played to win the game.

@Rockhound6165 3 года назад

Looking back I would think Jake Elliot's 61 yard game winner at the buzzer against the Giants was gutsier.

@Davepool-hs7vr Год назад

Do a video on the body bag game between Philadelphia and Washington

@kevinburke8464 2 года назад

I don't see logic calling it gutsiest FG decision ever. If miss, Eagles get it at 37 driving against a strong wind. Jaworski's stats were 9-27-190 1TD 3 INT. Also, Eagles FG kicker was 37 year old Horst Muhlmann, who made 3 out of 8 FGs in 1977 & would retire after season. Thus, against strong wind, Eagles likely must drive at least 41 yards to 22 to even have an average chance he makes 39 yard FG. All signs point to game heading to OT if Moseley missed or Washington getting ball back with wind for another drive for GW FG attempt

@donaldholderdoc2910 3 года назад

A great kick for sure especially with the weather conditions. But hardly the gutsiest kick in NFL history.

@thedizzyunicorn 3 года назад

He would've had a better field goal % leading up to the kick if he would have spiked the ball on every play.

@charlesfoutch1132 3 года назад

My guess he is a Redskin fan.

@fitzgivesfits1 3 года назад

Moseley had a different style of kick. He kicked the ball head on, instead of 3 steps back and 2 steps to the left. The ball was kicked from the front of his shoe and not the side.

@1mattadams 3 года назад

He was the last straight on kicker in the nfl

@jeffs3752 Год назад

Shitty straight on kicker makes one, OMG gutsy! You do a great job of creating drama out of nothing.

@timothyball7502 3 года назад

8 and I, NO the letter is wrong! Say it this way Eight and Zero! Numbers with numbers. You mixed a letter with a number. Bummed.

@jameshigh5050 3 года назад

Get on with it!

@Rockhound6165 3 года назад

The Cowboys didn't have the division on lockdown. by week 10 they were 8-2 while the Cardinals were 7-3 with 4 winnable games left. They were also leading the wild card race until week 13. Unfortunately for my Cards the wheels fell off the rest of the season. As for this kick, it was actually a good move. The Vet was a kickers paradise with it's astroturf and swirling winds. It's why it was a great hitters ballpark. And Mosley was a great kicker then.

@DolFan316 3 года назад

I suppose now would be a bad time to bring up that it was my team that sent the Cards into a downward spiral with a 55-14 Thanksgiving day massacre that saw the Cards go from 7-3 coming in to a 15-game losing streak, and missing the playoffs the next four seasons while winning 7 games or less 😈 Oddly enough, everybody thought THEY were going to massacre the DOLPHINS beforehand even with both teams having the same record!

@Rockhound6165 3 года назад

@@DolFan316 believe me. I'm well aware. JG does a video on it. And it was a 12 game losing streak. 4 to end 1977 and 8 to start 1978. I was actually at the game when they ended the losing streak. 16-10 over the Eagles.

@chrisslaughter5552 3 года назад

Convoys best play was a flag from the bias referees that got paid Oil Wells

@scottconner7930 3 года назад

44 Years Ago

@Jiltedin2007 3 года назад

Didn’t Chicago win the Wild Card in 1977? Where were they positioned in Week 8?

@OfficialJaguarGator9 3 года назад

They were 3-5. Ran the table the rest of the way. Came out of nowhere

@23Robusto 3 года назад

and he kicked straight on. Soccer style kickers today can kick it further

@mf7482 3 года назад

Yes strangely enough Mark Moseley was the very last straight on kicker in the NFL. Pete and Charley Gogalak started the use of the soccer style. Now that every kicker is using that style it doesn't look good any more.

@Toast_Points 3 года назад

4:57 "Temperature 3°C/37°" Is this an artifact of the ill-fated attempt at metrication?

@andrejg4136 3 года назад

Yeah, it's another one of those examples where we don't want to do the thing that everyone does for the sake of us being so damn special (even though in this regard its pointless). It also creates extra work for American science students because we have to keep conversion tables in our heads for when we talk inside of class and outside of class about something.

@Rockhound6165 3 года назад

@@andrejg4136 Fun Fact: The metric system still sucks.

@toledoseahawks3348 3 года назад

@@Rockhound6165 Nope, it is in fact superior to the imperial system.

@pretorious700 3 года назад

If you don't think you can make that kick, you shouldn't be out there.

@deanknowles1631 3 года назад

Back in 1977 with A missed field goal the opposing team got the ball at the 20 yard line. Do your research.

@icezebra77 3 года назад

NFL rule for missed FGs was changed in 1974, same year goal posts were moved from the goal line to the end line and kickoffs moved from the 40 back to the 35.

@richardprescott5939 3 года назад

In 1974 they changed the rule to the line of scrimmage OR the 20-yard line, whichever was further. So this kick would have been placed at the 37 if they missed. 10 seconds on google but also in my memory

@icezebra77 3 года назад

@@richardprescott5939 Right. (I forgot about the shorter kicks with the ball snapped inside the 20)

@davidcobb2693 3 года назад

So you don't think bringing in your 43 YEAR OLD KICKER in to attempt a game winning 52-yard FG wasn't the gutsiest? YOU and this channel have NO credibility!

@NosferatusCoffin 2 года назад

Blanda's kick was amazing by any standard. OTOH, Jag stated at the start of the video that he was excluding FGs kicked out of necessity, such as a last second, game winning kick. Which Blanda's was.

@tarantinoish 3 года назад

I’m sorry, but this is so dumb. They had to go for it, and there wasn’t anything magical or gutsy about it. The announcers said it during the game. He had the wind 100% in his favor. All he had to do was kick it straight. The wind carried the ball. With that wind he would of made a 60 yard kick. The coach made the call because of the wind, not in spite of it. Was is it a great kick, sure. But gutsiest kick attempt ever, no way.

@karlcooper8460 3 года назад

Is that joe theismann or senator joe manchin hahahahahahahaha.

@Topjake1492 Год назад

How many socks was he wearing on his "kicking foot"?😂😅

@sigsauer3719 3 года назад

Redskins were lucky and especially under Joe Gibbs. Never that good!

@deanknowles1631 3 года назад

George Allen was the coach in 1977

@chrisslaughter5552 3 года назад

Hey Now..You need a man hug..Cant beaten Hate on them..HTTR

@debbiehenson1096 3 года назад

Joe Gibbs, 3 rings with 3 diff qbs.

@joeyrincones9308 3 года назад

Sig Sauer...Gibbs and Washington's three Super Bowl titles says differently.

@debbiehenson1096 3 года назад

You don't know much about football.

@karlcooper8460 3 года назад

A straight on kicker shouldn't have ever missed unless he was kicking into a stiff or swirling wind.

@toledoseahawks3348 3 года назад

To be fair, being 0-2 doesn't mean much in the straight-footed era. This techznique was so poor, that it was always a gamble if the kicker hit the field goal.

@DolFan316 3 года назад

Average FG accuracy for the '77 season was a mere 58%. Now it's almost 85% and even that seems a bit low.

@richardgazinia5482 3 года назад

Until they changed the rule in the 90s missed field goals that reached the goal line were treated as touchbacks. So if Mosley had missed like he had earlier in the game the Eagles would have been given the ball at their own 20.

@themedianman9712 3 года назад

I think that was a college rule. The NFL rule, at least prior to its current iteration, was to switch possession at the line of scrimmage. Where there may be a middle ground (and maybe I should just look it up), is if the kick is missed from inside the 20, the ball was brought out to that spot.

@icezebra77 3 года назад

NFL rule for missed FGs was changed in 1974, same year goal posts were moved from the goal line to the end line and kickoffs moved from the 40 back to the 35.