That was great. Good fake.

The ball handling really was incredible.

Too bad they wasted that play on a pre-season game. Would have been nice to have that as a weapon for a game winner. Still loved this when i was watching this game. Very well executed. :0

Regular season comes around, I don't want to hear any bitching about roughing the kicker.

The reason they did this play was because the coach waited like 15 years to do it again. And they used the back up kicker because they didn't want the real kicker getting hurt. SO they won't use it in the regular season because it's too risky to the kicker. They only did it because they had an expendable kicker who was in because it's a pre-season game.

I really don't like soccer, but I don't like football much either. Upvote for HANDEGG!

Amazing fake, you only see what he does right at the end of the video. That took chutzpah.

This is the part I really like about handegg; the strategy of it. This almost seems like a historic battle stratagem or chess move, you leave the enemy an opening, he thinks he knows what you are doing and that he can exploit it, then you swing around and do something else, completely outmanoeuvring your opponent and leaving him going "wth just happened"? You never see that in football, hockey, basketball or baseball, as impressive as player moves may be in those sports as well, you never see this sort of organized deception. It always struck me as something uniquely handeggy.

aahahaha handegg

Beautiful.

lol...ball-handling...

FAKE!

It's not about what particular sport, it's all about the techniques used.

>> ^poolcleaner:
It's not about what particular sport, it's all about the techniques used.


Indeed. But I look at Football like Chess on grass. You have your set pieces, each with their own strengths and weaknesses. This is a classic strategy that is the very heart of Football: Show your opponent one thing, hit him with something else entirely. It's why the screen-pass is a staple in every coach's playbook (fake going down-field while the defensive linemen drool at the possibility of a sack, while blockers set up in front of the receiver of a short pass), why running out of a 4-wide formation can put a defetnse on its heels (show a defense a passing formation, then run the ball instead), and why the Tackle-Eligible play works, even when Warren Sapp is called into the offensive formation (who's going to try and throw a pass to someone who's a starting defensive lineman?)

As Sun Tzu said: "All warfare is based on deception."

This is almost as cool as the Music City Miracle, the last-ditch play that put the Titans in the Super Bowl against Kurt Warner's Rams (where McNair would come one yard shy of winning).

So you're saying it's like rugby, except that everybody is allowed to stop and think about tactics every 5 seconds. And you wear padding.

Don't mess with football.

>> ^westyrules:
So you're saying it's like rugby, except that everybody is allowed to stop and think about tactics every 5 seconds. And you wear padding.


Well, injuries in handegg are so nasty precisely BECAUSE of all that 'padding'. The most dangerous moments in a game of handegg tend to be kick-offs, because you have 300 lbs terrors wearing 50 lbs of gear that shield them from some injury, thus making them a little cocky, running full speed and aiming said gear at certain vulnerable points in the padding of another player. As someone mentioned, this would never be done with the first string kicker--the chance of a single linebacker missing the obvious and being in the right place at the right time is simply too great.

Whoa.