Larry Csonka was the Giants player who fumbled Joe Pisarcik’s handoff in the “Miracle at the Meadowlands”.
Why didn’t they just do the victory formation?
Well, it wasn’t allowed then
Here’s an excerpt from SI.com :
What preceded this epic fail? First, keep in mind that “victory formation” wasn’t formally allowed in the NFL until 1987. The practice to kill a play was for a quarterback to drop back and fall to the ground. He still had to be touched by a defender, though there was an “unwritten rule” that this was done passively. When Pisarcik rolled to the ground on first down of the series, Eagles linebacker Frank LeMaster charged at running back Willie Spencer and shoved him into Pisarcik.
Linemen on both sides began jawing contentiously before order was restored and the Giants huddled up for second down.
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Btw, who is the White Sox player pictured in post #132?