I’ve got the best seat
put my hands up when he was
seven yards down field
Jahmyr Gibbs rescues Lions with long TD run in OT for 34-27 win over Giants by Larry Lage
DETROIT (AP) — Jahmyr Gibbs to the rescue.
Gibbs ran for a 69-yard touchdown on the first snap of overtime and had a career-high 264 yards from scrimmage along with three scores, lifting the Detroit Lions to a much-needed 34-27 win over the New York Giants on Sunday.
“He bailed us out in a big way,” Detroit coach Dan Campbell
Detroit took advantage. With 28 seconds left, Jake Bates kicked a career-long 59-yard field goal that matched a franchise record, giving Jared Goff another opportunity to put the ball in Gibbs’ hands.
In overtime, Goff handed the ball to Gibbs for a run up the middle, Detroit’s much-maligned offensive line opened a huge hole, and one of the NFL’s fastest players took it from there.
“I’ve got the best seat in the field,” Goff said. “I put my hands up when he was about seven yards down the field.”
Kind of like wanting to see an overtime basketball game where one team comes out of nowhere and scores 20 points, I love it when you see something unexpected in OT.
Like a 70 yard run from scrimmage on the 1st play.
Especially when its my team.
I think I saw Goff with his hands up calling touchdown a few seconds after the handoff.
That was fun.
Back in 1996, Brian Griese took over after halftime of the Ohio State game down 0 to 9 and on the 2nd play of the 2nd half, from the Michigan 20, Griese threw an in route to Tai Streets at about the 30 yard line.
The OSU defender fell down and Streets took two more steps and calling the game for ABC Sports, Keith Jackson said, simply, “he’s wide open and gone for a touchdown.”
At that point, Streets was at the 50 yard line but Jackson had seen enough football in his life that unless there was an earthquake and some 200 foot ravine suddenly opened up, Streets was going to score.
50 yards of watching your team, knowing its a touchdown.
Jackson, unlike most sportscasters, shut up and let everyone live in that moment as Streets ran down the middle of the field to the endzone.
And for some reason, no one said, AND NO FLAGS.
Maybe back then, just because they had flags those guys didn’t think they needed to call a penalty on every play.
That was fun …
Who knows this weekend …
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