Philadelphia Eagles This is the last of
three plays nominated as the most memorable play in team history. Philadelphia
Eagles In the previous two days, we featured the first Miracle at the
Meadowlands against the Giants in 1978 and Wilbert Montgomery's touchdown in
the 1980 NFC Championship Game. Philadelphia Eagles Please vote for your choice
as the Eagles' most memorable play. Philadelphia Eagles When Kevin Boss scored
on an 8-yard touchdown pass from Eli Manning, the New York Giants had
a 31-10 lead with 8:12 left in the fourth quarter. That gave the Giants,
according to the formula, Philadelphia Eagles a 100 percent win probability for
that game against the Philadelphia Eagles. When Michael Vick hit
tight end Brent Celek for a 65-yard touchdown a couple of minutes
later, the Giants’ win probability stayed at 99.9 percent. When Vick ran 4
yards for a touchdown with 5:32 left in the fourth quarter, the Giants still
had a 97.8 percent chance to win the game. Even after Vick tied it with a
13-yard touchdown pass to Jeremy Maclin with 1:16 to play, Philadelphia
Eagles the Giants had the ball with a chance to win. But two incomplete passes
and a sack later, New York
had to punt with 14 seconds left. You get the point. The Giants had the game in
the bag. The Eagles came back from 100 percent dead in the water and won it
thanks to what was quickly dubbed Miracle of the New Meadowlands, Philadelphia
Eagles for the new Giants stadium had just opened across the parking lot from
the site of Herman Edwards' 1978 miracle fumble recovery. This time around, the
winning play itself was almost as improbable as the three-touchdown spree that
set it up. Giants punter Matt Dodge was kicking from his own 29-yard
line. All he had to do was avoid Eagles return man DeSean Jackson.
Instead, Dodge kicked it right to Jackson, Philadelphia Eagles who fumbled the
punt, picked it up at his own 35-yard line and started to run. He didn’t stop
until he was approaching the goal line, Philadelphia Eagles where Jackson
changed his course of approach to make sure the clock ran down to zero before
he crossed the line. Philadelphia Eagles "I was thinking to myself, like,
'They're not going to kick it to me,'" Jackson said. Philadelphia Eagles "I was thinking he
was going to kick it out of bounds. But it got to me. Philadelphia Eagles From
there, I just used my instincts and my speed to get into the end zone." Philadelphia
Eagles The 65-yard return ended a 28-point Eagles comeback rally and gave them
a tiebreaker edge on the Giants for the NFC East title. That meant Jackson’s return
contributed to the last of Eagles coach Andy Reid’s nine playoff appearances
with the team. An era was ending, Philadelphia Eagles but it was delayed by Jackson’s improbable
return and the Eagles’ statistically impossible comeback, Philadelphia
Eagles end.
