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The signature play of this beautifully backward NFL season took place during Week 2 in Jacksonville. The setting was divinely contrarian. It was 93 degrees at kickoff despite the fact that it's football season. The Jags, a hot preseason pick for the Super Bowl, were well on their way to an 0-2 start. And uber accurate Jags quarterback David Garrard had already thrown more picks than he did in all of 2007.
On fourth-and-1, Maurice Jones-Drew grabbed the ball and nail-gunned himself through the line of scrimmage. A diving Bills linebacker, Paul Posluszny, managed to get a hand into MoJo's passing grill, grotesquely cork-screwing his helmet, Linda Blair style, past his flattened septum, over his silly-putty'ed cheek and across his mangled ear hole until the helmet was completely backward.
MoJo, god love him, just kept right on running, plowing ahead for 9 more yards and another 15 tacked on for the face-mask penalty.
If you wanted a commemorative Fathead to summarize the 2008 season so far, this was it: A gutsy Jones-Drew violently racing, crashing, plowing himself backwards into the future.
Didnt the facemask occur at the end of the run?? I really dont remember Jones-Drew running 9 yards with his helmet backwards...
Though this is the same guy who was AT the game and talked about Trent's beautiful throw to Hardy down the sideline to setup the TD, when in fact it was Lee.
On fourth-and-1, Maurice Jones-Drew grabbed the ball and nail-gunned himself through the line of scrimmage. A diving Bills linebacker, Paul Posluszny, managed to get a hand into MoJo's passing grill, grotesquely cork-screwing his helmet, Linda Blair style, past his flattened septum, over his silly-putty'ed cheek and across his mangled ear hole until the helmet was completely backward.
MoJo, god love him, just kept right on running, plowing ahead for 9 more yards and another 15 tacked on for the face-mask penalty.
If you wanted a commemorative Fathead to summarize the 2008 season so far, this was it: A gutsy Jones-Drew violently racing, crashing, plowing himself backwards into the future.
Didnt the facemask occur at the end of the run?? I really dont remember Jones-Drew running 9 yards with his helmet backwards...
Though this is the same guy who was AT the game and talked about Trent's beautiful throw to Hardy down the sideline to setup the TD, when in fact it was Lee.
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