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Favorite NFL Thanksgiving Moment(s)? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by albundy66@alien.top to c/nfl@nfl.community

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Different fans of different teams spanning different generations have seen their favorites play on Thanksgiving.

From Randy Moss and Leon Lett to the Butt Fumble and Tomlin’s Trip, there have been many anNFL Thanksgiving moment that we will remember forever.

What tops your Turkey Day NFL memories?

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[–] alexdelarges@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This context makes the cultish following of this play make more sense, thank you. I'll say it's still held in too high a regard since you need all that context to really understand why it's significant. It's also significant as a point in time for a mediocre team becoming bad, which isn't particularly noteworthy in the grand history of the NFL. I'm still gonna hate on it, but maybe not as much as I used to.

[–] RukiMotomiya@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

It's worth noting that at the time, they weren't seen as a mediocre team per se. They had been one game from the Super Bowl 2 out of the last 3 years and a lot of people felt if their offense could just get together they might push over the edge. The defense fell down in 2011 but it seemed like a one year blip. So it felt more like the bottom falling out on a true "what if" team, since despite having guys like Mark Sanchez at QB they were one score from the Super Bowl. Rex Ryan was a hot commodity with a fiery personality who talked trash and beat Brady + Bill in the playoffs (which also made the butt fumble game some sweet revenge for some people). Stuff like that.