What is the greatest ending to a football game that you can imagine?

Question

Let's not use team names.
Nobody really cares if you want So and So to win or lose....so try Team A and Team B.

Would you want a last second field goal?
Last second Hail Mary?
Last second quadruple reverse to a Statue of Liberty with a Hook & Ladder and 8 laterals?

Get as detailed as you want.

smooth George.....
haha

Answer 1

Team P is ahead by 4 points with 5 seconds remaining and the ball on Team C's 30 yard line. The ball is snapped to quarterback B and as he is kneeling down to end the game he drops the ball.

Team C scoops up the ball and returns it 67 yards for the touchdown including several laterals and reverses and runs through Team P's musketeers knocking down the drummer.

Team P's Coach B collapses into a fetal position muttering something about video recorders all the way to the nearest mental institution.

Answer 2

There have been so many great endings in this game. Thats why I love the game. Since Im a 49er fan the most memorable was the 1982 NFC championship game against the DallAss CowDung, "The Catch".

In the NFC Championship at Candlestick the 49ers faced their old nemeses the Dallas Cowboys. The game would go back and forth all afternoon, as the 49ers looked to be going down again trailing 27-21 late in the 4th Quarter facing the task of driving 89 yards for a TD. However, the world was introduced to the Montana magic as the 49ers young QB drove the 49ers down the field. With less than a minute left the 49ers faced 3rd and Goal from the 6, as Joe Montana was flushed from the pocket. Trying to avoid a backbreaking sack and under extreme pressure from the Dallas front four, Montana threw the ball out to the back of the endzone. WR Dwight Clark leaped up and brought the ball down with perhaps the most famous catch in NFL history to give the 49ers a 28-27 lead.

Answer 3

There are many ways to have a perfect ending to a football,
the hail mary, great, yes...
the fifteen laterals. of course, very suspenseful, and interesting to watch.
but there is probably, (my opinion) in all the history of football, not going to say which one, is the best.
There are 15, or so seconds left in the game. There is one kick off to go, and the team that is about to receive the ball is down by 3, to 6 points down, or, if they return the kick for the touchdown, they win the game. Then comes the kick, and the kick returner is running down the field, it is very improbable that he will score, but you hope anyway. And of course, he get tackled.....wait, no he doesn;t. There was a pitch before the knee was down. But yet, the band and crowd doesn;t know that, and so they rush on, onto the field, unaware. Then the last person weaves through the opposing team, AND the rushing people. And finally, wasting the clock, he runs into the touch down, throwing the football down.
That, i believe is the best ending play to a football game...

Answer 4

Team A is down by 7 with one play left in the game. Team B expects a hail mary, so they send all their guys deep and rush only 3. Team A sends all the receivers deep- but then the quarterback takes and runs with it, with the whole offensive line blocking, as well as the WRs. THere are a few laterals, then a fumble, which is recovered by a 350 lb lineman, who jiggles his way into the endzone! Oh, and as this is going on, there are fans running on to the field because they think the game is over, and some of them get mauled by a linebacker.
Again, Team A wants to trick Team B, so instead of going for the extra point, the holder keeps it and throws it to a tightend that nobody covered in the endzone. It's a perfect pass, made on the run as he was pursued by 3 defensive guys. It hits the tightend in the chest... and he drops it.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA that would be hilarious.

Answer 5

The end to the Boise St. bowl game last year was about as good as I can imagine a game getting. I can't remember many occasions where I yelled "Holy Sh*t" while watching a sporting event, but that was one of them.

If I had to make one up, it would have been very similar only involving an even bigger underdog, like Team A being 18-0, for example, and up by 7 late in the 4th of the Super Bowl and Team B pulling off a hook and ladder for the TD as time expired and then pulling off a fake FG similar to the LSU one earlier this year for the go-ahead 2-point conversion for the win.

The crazy 20-lateral plays just don't appeal to me, they're just too messy. The Boise St. hook-and-ladder was just beautiful to watch and perfectly executed.

Answer 6

I'd like to see team A get a safety in the last quarter, and is now up by two points, then team a goes for the fieldgoal fr an extra point, and the tam b blocks it and now there is a triple reversal on the field and team b picks it up and runs it to the endzone all the way accross the field

Answer 7

I already saw the ending to one. It was a high school team. The winning team had the ball and there was a few seconds left. The winning team decided to run out the clock, by literally running back for a safety. When the quarterback got to his endzone, he tossed the ball in the air behind his back (technically a forward pass) as he faced the endzone. It was intercepted by the guy chasing him and that guy ran in for the winning touchdown. If the quarterback would have ran one more yard and get out of bounds, the quarterback's team would have won. It proves the rule on defense and that's not to give up because you don't know what will happen.

Answer 8

The 2002 NC game pretty much sums it up for me. I like games that are decided by a defensive stop at the end.

Other game endings I enjoyed was a San Fran overtime game that Garrison Hearst ran for a 90 yard touchdown to win it. He probably broke 10 tackles.

Another one of my favorites is the game between NO and Carolina I think. The team returned a kick with time expired or some other such shenanigans, only to miss the xp and lose the game by one.

Answer 9

A team on their own 1 with 1 second left and just keep lateraling down the field to the endzone

Answer 10

In my opinion its the Dallas vs. Buffalo this season when with 2 seconds left Dallas had to make like about a 62 yard field goal twice because Buffalo called timeout right before the first one and it was made both times. To win it from behind after a really bad game.