User talk:2601:1C0:5201:BEA0:4C62:7ACB:F893:FC4B

I came to this talk page after reading the article about the movie "Rudy", where the wrongful claim is made that the "kneeldown" or "victory formation" play was "overruled" by the Notre Dame offense to score a touchdown to allow Rudy to play during the game. That's incorrect...at the time of that game, the kneeldown or victory formation didn't exist. Then, I click on the article for the play itself and see another incorrect claim, that the NY Giants' offensive coordinator was ridiculed for not using the kneeldown play in the "Miracle at the Meadowlands" play, where current Arizona State football coach Herm Edwards, who was a safety for the Eagles at the time, picked up the fumble and ran it in for the winning score. Therefore, allow me to educate you about something... There have been dozens of times in NFL history where screwy or unusual plays or situations have led to changes in the rules (not just game play) or changes in how the games are played. Example: the "Heidi Game", 17 November, 1968, when an NBC engineer in New York City (NBC was the official network of AFL, American Football League, games at the time) cut away from a New York Jets at Oakland Raiders game in Oakland just before 7pm Eastern time to show the scheduled movie "Heidi", a decision that prompted an angry response from New Yorkers, who flooded the NBC switchboard in NYC with angry compliants. In response, the engineer run a "crawl" to tell people during the movie what had happened. After the cut away from the game, which had just seen the Jets kick a field goal to take a 32-29 lead, the Raiders ran back the ensuing kickoff for a touchdown to take the lead, and, on the ensuing kickoff after that, the Jets fumbled and the Raiders recovered and ran it back for a TD. They won the game 43-32. Within days, the NFL, AFL and the TV networks worked out plan/SOP that still stands today: stay with the game until it ends and either join subsequent programming "in progress" or delay its start. The Miracle at the Meadowlands was the "mother" of the kneeldown play... it didn't exist before then and, within a couple of weeks, several assistant coaches across the league figured out that the QB could simply kneel down with the ball so as to almost ensure that there wouldn't be a fumble, let alone have one returned for a touchdown. The article needs to be edited to detail that fact....the kneeldown play did not exist until AFTER the Miracle at the Meadowlands. The article is correct, however, when it says that the SOP for the end of games was to have a quarterback sneak or, usually, giving the ball to the fullback and "sending him into the line", hoping that he'll hang on to the ball. But, the article is incorrect in saying that the kneeldown play/victory formation existed before the Miracle at the Meadowlands. 2601:1C0:5201:BEA0:4C62:7ACB:F893:FC4B (talk) 03:05, 9 September 2021 (UTC) (I'll "cite my source" as what you call "original research", where I saw the Miracle at the Meadowlands play on TV as it happened and I clearly remember the kneeldown play being developed as a result of it)