Favorite Plays....

[gureski]

Re: Favorite Plays....

Just for fun, I thought I'd start a topic to reminisce about the many great (and some not-so-great) plays we have witnessed over the years as Packer fans.

And pick a loss to the cowboys in the mid-90's.

I remember watching the NFC Championship game in '95 where I saw two Dallas OL pulling Reggie White by the arms BACKWARDS without getting a holding call. I knew it was over for the Packers when I saw that--there was no way to overcome all the holding, Erik Williams' poking Reggie in the eyes AND Michael Irvin pushing off!!!!

It's funny you mention this because all my memories of those Dallas vs. G.B. games included liberal refereeing. Irvin used to put both hands on our DB's and use their sholder pads as a launching pad to go up and snare balls and he never got called once for pushing off. He and Harper both.

And don't get me started on the holding that was allowed in those games and in the Superbowl loss to Denver. It was an injustice to say the least. Jurkovich getting taken out with that cheap shot by Williams was B.S. and it didn't even garner a penalty. That was such a dirty play.

[gureski]

Who can forget the time Reggie White took Chris Carter and FLUNG him....as in picked up and threw him...at a stunned Warren Moon in a game in Minnesota.

I remember seeing Moon's eyes light up as he saw his blocker sent sprawling into the air and into Moon's feet. It was one of those WOW plays.


The Walter Stanley Thanksgiving Day highlight return where he hops and hops and hops down the final yards of the sideline towards a TD. It would go on to be shown on highlight films for years after. I think it was a punt return but I could be wrong.

[MadtownPacker]

Re: Favorite Plays....

The underhand TD pass while running to the sideline from Favre to Green on MNF against the queens in 2000.

All the hard hits Nick Collins delivered last season but especially the one to Chad Johnson. He hit him so hard he forgot to make his CB list the rest of the season!!

[Guiness]

Bad memory....just to keep balance.... Owens catching that game winning TD in Holmgren's last game as coach. In the playoffs...in S.F.... a play or two after the ref's had screwed up a Jerry Rice fumble that should've ended the game.

Another bad memory....T.Buckley not thinking Jim McMahon could throw the ball 40 yards so he lets his man go and covers the short guy on the last play of a game at the Metrodome. McMahon tosses the ball over Buckley's head and we lose the game.

Owens catching that TD is w/o a doubt my wrost Packer memory, bar none. I was still so pissed about the NBA style no-call on Rice, then that happened. T.O. came of age that day.

One other play I can never seem to shake is the the loss to Philly in at home in '03.
Horrible conditions, and a low scoring game. We were up by 4, so the Eagles need a TD. They're driving the field, but running out of time. Harris was doing ok, but getting beat a bit - he didn't look right. Suddenly, deep in Pack territory, Harris is pulled for Jue!!! Very next play, McNabb goes to that side and beats Jue for a TD on a little pass that had more arc than a rainbow. Todd Pinkston, I think.

McMahon beating T.Buck in the Metrodome - I'd clean forgotten that he played that one season in Minn. Don't know that I ever saw that play.

[HarveyWallbangers]

Two of the better underrated throws I've seen from Favre. Against Cincinnati, he had a window about the size of a football, and he got it in there for a TD to Mark Ingram, I believe, between 3 defenders.

My favorite is one against New England on Monday night. He rolled to his right, flung it over the middle about 30 yards down the field, and hit Chmura for a TD between two defenders.

[Guiness]

Now for my Favs...

The '96 playoff win at 3COM. The whole damn game. Going there, not supposed to have a chance against them. The biggest story before the game was the cushions 3Com supplied for every seat...

I'm trying to pin down a specific Ahman green run, but I can't because it's never been his long, spectacular runs I like. The ones that I admire are those that go for 5 yards, and end with a linebacker being levitated
And he's had a pile of those!

[gureski]

Another one....with a cast on one hand....Antonio Freeman dives to make an amazing catch, crossing into the endzone (I'm pretty sure) in the process in a game versus the Bears...in Chicago sometime during that Superbowl winning Season. Just a great play and he did it with a cast on. What happened to that guy...hey?

[oregonpackfan]

What about that pass years ago where he threw it to, I think, Antonio and he slipped and everyone thought the ball hit the turf so no one touched him, but hit hit his hip and he caught it and got up and ran in for an easy 6. That one left a few mouths hanging open.

MJZiggy,

That WAS a phenonmenal play! If I remember correctly, that play took place on a MNF game against the despised Minnesota Vikings. The Pack went on to win the game.

Oregonpackfan

[oregonpackfan]

Remember the Wildcard vs. Seattle??

Matt Hasselbeck: "We want the ball, 'cuz we're gonna score!"

Al Harris: "No, you're not!"

That was the kinid of play where the late Jackie Gleason would chime, "How sweet it is!"

Oregonpackfan

[CyclonePackFan]

What about that pass years ago where he threw it to, I think, Antonio and he slipped and everyone thought the ball hit the turf so no one touched him, but hit hit his hip and he caught it and got up and ran in for an easy 6. That one left a few mouths hanging open.

MJZiggy,

That WAS a phenonmenal play! If I remember correctly, that play took place on a MNF game against the despised Minnesota Vikings. The Pack went on to win the game.

Oregonpackfan

Oregon,

That play was in OT on Monday Night against the Vikings, it won us the game. I will always remember the Viking CB dancing around while Free got up and started running.

Actually, on the last MNF game last year , they rated the greatest plays in Monday Night Football history, since it was changing networks. That play, Free's miracle catch, was #1.

It's not a single play, but I'd like to meantion the entire first half of Brett's "Game of his life" (I think that's what they coined it) against Oakland the day after his father died.

Most. Amazing. Performance. EVER.

[swede]

Wayne Simmons jarring hit that caused the fumble that newsome ran back for a score. That was one of my favorite games that i've ever seen.

That was my favorite play. It was the moment that I believed that the Packers were good enough to beat anybody. They had arrived! ( Iwas holding my one year old son and I nearly spiked him in happiness.)

I think that "95 team was better than the '97 team that went to the SB.

[woodbuck27]

What about that pass years ago where he threw it to, I think, Antonio and he slipped and everyone thought the ball hit the turf so no one touched him, but hit hit his hip and he caught it and got up and ran in for an easy 6. That one left a few mouths hanging open.

That was the play of the year in the NFL. That play but all the dramatics leading up to it beginning with that Viking missed FG to set up OT.

An amazing Monday night game for those Packer Fans that hung in there.

[Fosco33]

Darrell Thompson goes the length of the field to clinch a brutally cold game vs. the Raiders in 1993 to give the Packers their first playoff berth in 11 years. That was the game that LeRoy Butler started the Lambeau Leap.

Wasn't this also when Butler forced a fumble that Reggie recovered and ran like 10 yards before pitching it to Butler, who scored his first career touchdown and celebrated by jumping into the stands.

I loved the SB victory - especially Brett's scramble and dive for a TD. That one almost topped when he went completely horizontal and ran about 10 yards vs. Atlanta at Lambeau for a TD to get the Pack in the playoffs (and Chewy tackled him ) I remember as a kid, cutting that photo out of the Journal and having it on my wall for years.

[packinator]

Wow! Not a single play over 12 yrs old!!

How about Chester Marcol (most likely with a blood alcohol content of .09 or higher) catching his own blocked field goal and sort of running into the end zone?

Or the play simply known as THE sneak in the ice bowl?

[Little Whiskey]

yancy thingpen dropping the touchdown pass to had us the game and the divisional crown. I was sitting in that endzone and didn't know what happend until the crowd erupted. I thought he caught it, as he was wide open.

The playoff game against the lions were brett threw the pass a mile in the air to sterling for the win. If i remember correct, Brett over threw him on a similar pass on the play before. the lions left sterling wide open streaking down the sidelines on two consecutive plays.