Greatest Play For Each Team

Greatest Play for each team. Ask a young person what a team’s greatest play is, and they have no idea about 90% of a team’s history. They say last weekend’s Lad McConkey TD run against Mississippi State is the greatest ever.

Bears: Sayers in the mud vs 49ers

Bengals

Broncos: Elway’s helicopter TD

Browns

Buccaneers

Cardinals: Larry Wilson intercepts pass with both hands in casts

Chargers: TE Kellen Winslow blocks FG in OT

Chiefs: Dawson to Otis Taylor TD pass beats Vikings in Super Bowl 4.

Colts: Alan Ameche’s TD wins the greatest game ever played

Cowboys: Staubach to Pearson Hail Mary

Dolphins: flea flicker (top).

Eagles: Randall Cunningham’s TD pass after being knocked down tops Chuck Bednarik knocking out Frank Gifford 

Falcons: Big Ben Right beats Saints

49ers: Montana to Dwight Clark

Giants: David Tyree’s helmet catch

Jaguars

Jets:

Lions: Barry Sanders TD run vs Cowboys in playoffs

Packers: Starr’s QB sneak

Panthers

Raiders: sea of hands

Redskins: John Riggins’ TD run

Saints: Tom Dempsey’s 63 yard field goal

Seahawks:

Steelers: Immaculate reception

Vikings: Jim Marshall's wrong way run

Alabama: Tua’s TD pass in OT wins national championship

App State blocks Michigan’s field goal

Auburn: kick six beats Bama.

Boise State’s Fiesta Bowl flea flicker

Boston College: Doug Flutie’s Hail Mary to beat Miami

Cal: The Play

Colorado: Kordell Stewart’s bomb to Michael Westbrook on last play of the game beats Pitt

UGA: Run Lindsey Run

Ga Southern Adrian Peterson’s 58 yd run in championship game

GT: Wrong way Roy Riegels

Florida: Spurrier’s game-winning field goal

FSU: puntrooski

LSU: Billy Cannon’s punt return

Miami breaks up Nebraska’s 2 pt conversion to secure 1st natty

Notre Dame: George Gipp’s 69-yard drop kick

Penn State: Todd Blackledge TD pass wins national championship

SC: Clowney stuffs Michigan

Tennessee hail mary beats UGA

Texas: Vince Young wins Rose Bowl

Athletics: Joe Rudi’s leaping catch in the World Series

Blue Jays: Joe Carter’s HR to win World Series

Braves: Sid slid

Cardinals: Mark McGuire breaks Maris’ record.

Cubs: Kerry Wood breaks single game strikeout record.

Diamondbacks: game winning RBI single by Luis Gonzalez

Dodgers: Kirk Gibson’s pinch hit home run

Expos:

Indians:

Giants: Willie Mays’ catch off Vic Wertz

Mariners: Griffey scores from first

Marlins:

Mets: Ron Swoboda’s diving catch in 69 World Series

Nationals:

Orioles: Cal Ripken breaks Gehrig’s Ironman record, or Brooks Robinson’s backhand stab in foul territory

Pirates: Bobby Thompson’s home run

Rangers: Nolan Ryan punches out Robin Ventura.

Rays:

Red Sox: Carlton Fisk’s home run off the foul pole

Rockies:

Royals: The Pine Tar game

Senators:

Padres: SS Ozzie Smith barehands grounder to throw out Jeff Burroughs.tops Nate Colbert’s 5 HR in a DH.

Reds:.

Tigers;

Twins: Kirby Puckett’s World Series HR beats Braves

Yankees: Bucky Freakin Dent is second to Ruth’s called shot

Duke: Laettner’s game-winner

GT: Kenny Anderson’s buzzer-beater in NCAA tourney

Indiana: Keith Smart’s game-winner vs Syracuse.

LSU: Maravich’s half-court hook shot at the buzzer in OT over UGA.  

LSU baseball walkoff to win NCAA championship

UNC: Michael Jordan’s jumper beats Georgetown

NC State’s lay-in upsets Phi Kappa Jamma

Bulls: MJ’s game-winner sinks Cavs

Celtics: Havlicek stole the ball

Lakers: Magic’s hook shot

76ers: Dr J’s windmill dunk

Believe it or not, I pecked out most of this list on my phone last night when I got home and plopped down on the couch. All from memory. A slow process, but that gave me time to think. This was yesterday’s question of the day on 680 The Fan. What did I leave out?

MILLER HUGGINS [SABR Bio] hit more than 10% of his career home runs off Christy Mathewson. Of Huggins’ nine career home runs, the one on 19-Jun-1907 was off Mathewson. It was also a lead-off HR. All 9 HR were of the inside-the-park variety. Miller Huggins has been a Double Unique since his debut on 15-Apr-1904. Huggins is the last Hall of Famer with 1,000 or more career hits to have over 85% of them be singles. Exactly 1,269 of 1,474 his career hits were singles: 86.1%. Willie Keeler was higher at 85.7% (2,513/2,932). Only those two hall of famers had that high of a percentage of singles. Huggins was the Yankees’ manager in the three seasons prior to winning their first pennant. Huggins managed New York from 1918-1920. He continued managing them for their 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th & 6^th pennants 1921-1928.  Included therein were their 1^st, 2^nd & 3^rd WS championships.