Which is the most exciting play in football, in your eyes?

• -Society-

  

  sherm03;912195 wrote:Thank you for using the correct term. I hate when people say "hook and ladder."

  You are incorrect.
• OneBuckeye

  

  krambman;911914 wrote:You left out Holy Buckeye!

  Damn, how did I forget that!
• enigmaax

  sleeper;912607 wrote:Any play involving Troy Smith.

  Yes, especially those 10 electrifying carries for -29 yards in the title game.
• sherm03

  

  -Society-;912617 wrote:You are incorrect.

  Nope...I'm not.
• LJ

  

  [h=2][edit] "Hook and Ladder"[/h]The "hook and lateral" is sometimes referred to as a "hook and ladder", which is a topic of considerable debate among football fans and analysts. Although the terms are used interchangeably by some, others believe this is not technically accurate. "Hook and lateral" may actually be a newer, more descriptive term for the play. However, since it is so commonly referred to as the "hook and ladder", perhaps this is actually an equally correct term for the play. Indeed, many argue that it IS the correct term for the play, inasmuch as the play when diagrammed resembles a hook-and-ladder firetruck turning a corner.
  One well known iteration of the play came in the aforementioned 1981 AFC playoff game, when the Dolphins surprised the Chargers and sent the Orange Bowl crowd into a frenzy.
  "We called it 87 Circle Curl Lateral," says Don Strock, the quarterback for the Dolphins that night. "And, believe me, the damn thing never worked in practice."
  In current culture, the play is referred to as the "hook and ladder" on the cover of EA Sports NCAA Football 2008, possibly because the term has been used commonly by sportscasters, coaches and fans for years.
  [h=3][edit] Speculation on origins of play names[/h]Some proponents of the term "hook and lateral" claim that the "hook" refers to the pattern run by the receiver who catches the pass from the quarterback. The "lateral" refers to the pitching of the ball by the receiver to his teammate. This is not synonymous with a "ladder", which is a specific route (also called a "chair") in which a receiver cuts out before turning up the field along the sideline. If the "hook" receiver laterals the ball to a teammate running a ladder route, the play could accurately be described as a "hook and ladder".[SUP][citation needed][/SUP] This would not be true of many hook and lateral plays; in the case of the play run by the Boise State Broncos in the 2007 Fiesta Bowl, the player who received the lateral from the "hook" receiver was running a slant route across the center of the field rather than a ladder route.
  On the January 2, 2007 broadcast of ESPN's Around the Horn, sportswriter Woody Paige claimed, perhaps facetiously, that the name "hook and ladder" originated with NYC Firemen Football Team in Hell's Kitchen, New York. This was in response to the other panelists ridiculing his use of "hook and ladder" rather than "hook and lateral". The next day, Jay Mariotti claimed the phrase "hook and ladder" referred to coal mining in Pennsylvania in the 1930s — his research claims that coal miners need a hook and ladder when trapped in a mine. Another possible explanation is that "hook and ladder" is just a corruption of the phrase "hook and lateral".
  A "hook and ladder" is a common name for a firetruck, which used to carry various hooks and ladders. The analogies that could be drawn to this play based on a "hook" route (with or without an actual "lateral") and a "hook and ladder" apparatus are numerous. Long extension ladders include two or more pieces, perhaps the first piece being a "hook" route, and the second piece being a run up the "ladder" to the end-zone. The second part of the play is sometimes accomplished with a hand-off, and not a lateral at all. Notwithstanding, there does not seem to be any definitive proof of what the play was originally called or why.

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• Speedofsand

  

  sleeper;912607 wrote:Any play involving Troy Smith.

  Agreed.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• vball10set

  
• -Society-

  

  sherm03;912741 wrote:Nope...I'm not.

  Yep, you certainly are incorrect.
• OneBuckeye

  

  LJ;912746 wrote:....

  Thanks for pointing that out. Does it really matter? Hook and lateral just doesn't flow off the tounge like a hook and ladder IMO. These people need to get off their high horse quit arguing and get back to the thread topic. /rant
• enigmaax

  vball10set;912795 wrote:

  This picture was taken shortly before he traded the trophy for a White Castle Crave Crate.
• OneBuckeye

  

  enigmaax;912840 wrote:This picture was taken shortly before he traded the trophy for a White Castle Crave Crate.

  Wrong! IN and OUT Burgers. Get it right!
• enigmaax

  OneBuckeye;912846 wrote:Wrong! IN and OUT Burgers. Get it right!

  Correct. My bad.
• vball10set

  enigmaax;912840 wrote:This picture was taken shortly before he traded the trophy for a White Castle Crave Crate.

  OneBuckeye;912846 wrote:Wrong! IN and OUT Burgers. Get it right!

  damn--and all this time I thought it was Rally's :rolleyes:
• enigmaax

  vball10set;912867 wrote:damn--and all this time I thought it was Rally's :rolleyes:

  If he knew what was good, it would've been Jack in the Box.
• wildcats20

  

  enigmaax;912840 wrote:This picture was taken shortly before he traded the trophy for a White Castle Crave Crate.

  Crave Case.
  
  
  And as far as the OP goes, DEFINITELY the punt.
• enigmaax

  wildcats20;912874 wrote:Crave Case.

  That is only 30. A crate is 100.
• LJ

  

  enigmaax;912889 wrote:That is only 30. A crate is 100.

  And why do you know this, Fatty McGee?
• wildcats20

  

  enigmaax;912889 wrote:That is only 30. A crate is 100.

  They seriously have a 100 pack? Good God.
• enigmaax

  LJ;912890 wrote:And why do you know this, Fatty McGee?

  Well, um, because they advertised the Crave Crate challenge? My fat is all hot wings, so piss off.
• DeyDurkie5

  

  speedofsand has no life if he sits in his florida home and trolls the chatter. Well what am I saying, he rides go carts and jacks off to fishing shows, of course we know he has no life
• sherm03

  

  OneBuckeye;912823 wrote:Thanks for pointing that out. Does it really matter? Hook and lateral just doesn't flow off the tounge like a hook and ladder IMO. These people need to get off their high horse quit arguing and get back to the thread topic. /rant

  QQ
• Speedofsand

  

  no derkie slurp, I just got back from lunch at Skydive DeLand. What are you doing?
  
  its 84 degrees, I'm going out to cut part of the back yard. Its love bug season.
• Automatik

  

  lol the Florida/SEC nutswinger pops up everywhere.
  
  I'm torn between a few, but a pick and then a pick 6 in a tight one or late in the game. I can still remember the roar when Vince Young threw a pick in the Shoe....to Nate Salley I believe.
• -Society-

  

  sherm03;912982 wrote:QQ

  STFU...you red headed fuck.
• sherm03

  

  -Society-;913261 wrote:STFU...you red headed fuck.

  QQ