anyone catch this crazy division III football comeback from saturday? it rivals the flutie hail mary and the stanford band games. its absurd, it's amazing -- checkr out:

 

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/football/ncaa/10/28/trinity.lateralapalooza.ap/index.html

It says the video is no longer available.  Three minutes after your post?

holy crap!!!  Here is the YouTube link that still works:

 

[youtube=425,350]AkR9D4W1g8A

I don't think it compares to the other endings you mentioned (nor does it compare to the Music City Miracle or the Boise State ending last year) due to the relative insignificance of it and the absurdity of it.

 

The other plays were somewhat more planned (except for the Cal/Stanford ending but thats special because of the band) and seemed less backyard-ish to me...

That Michigan v. Oregon (or was it Nebraska...can't remember) game could have been one for the ages if only there wasn't that one guy in the way of the Michigan player.  I couldn't believe my eyes when I was watching that final play unfold live.

I had forgotten about that until you just reminded me....yeah that was unreal too

i think the non-monumentalness and the non-plannedness is what makes this one a classic in its own right (well ok, maybe just a youtube classic).

 

first of all its gotta be thee longest play ever, it goes on and on forever.

 

but mostly its the combination of the desperation of trinity wanting it so bad and the exhausted millsaps team looking like they are just whatever about it and standing around that makes it hilarious.

 

the fact that it looks like a meaningless high school game is just an added bonus...as is the amateurish announcing (i thought the guy was going to say, "oh the humanity" at one point - lol!).

I thought the announcing was accurate. Wasn't the familiar voices we hear on the major Networks...

looks more like rugby than football

It said it was a 61 yard TD.  I wonder how many yards they all ran total to get the 61 yards..lol