posted at: 8:14 pm on Sun 2nd Oct 2005 , filed under: Sports

00:49 left and faces sagging with disappointment in FedEx Field. I looked at my kid and wife and was going to say “let’s go honey - we blew it”. Skins had just turned the ball over with the score tied - almost gifting the game away. Then I heard a man in his early 50s sitting behind me say “Its not over yet”. I hung on to those words of wisdom and motioned to stay. 1 sec left. The field goal coming about. Looked right - dead center. Rising and swerving to left. Still may barely make it ? PLUNK. We watched the ball just drop on the ground having been rejected by the pole. My sweet pole.

How the skins ended up winning in overtime after winning the toss is actually immaterial. That plunk saved us the game.