Greatest Football Catch Ever - Chris Moore, WWU (1992)

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This series of clips shows WWU's Chris Moore (80) making perhaps the greatest acrobatic catch in a 1992 football game against the University of Puget Sound Loggers.

UPDATE: This was ranked as the #24 'Best Damn Top 50 Spectacular Football Plays' by FOX Sports. See the article here:

Chris (a graduate of Issaquah High School in Issaquah, WA) caught this pass from quarterback Jason Stiles (14). The camerman was WWU film student Rick Medved, who was in the right place at the right time to capture the catch on film. Interestingly, Medved almost wasn't at this game, or any other. He had approached me about making a highlight film about the Viking football team in fall camp, but I already had somebody to do the job. Head Coach Rob Smith insisted I give him an opportunity (all it would cost us was a bus seat to our games, anyway). So, Rick was at every game, and in the right place at the right time.

Chris won the ESPY in 1992 for 'College Football Play of the Year', beating out Antonio Langham (Alabama) and Reggie Brooks (Notre Dame). If you watch the entire clip, watch Joe Theismann's reaction to naming Chris the winner. Just my opinion, but ever since that moment, I've always thought Theismann was a schmuck. I mean, get excited, already.

Rick didn't even know he had captured the catch on film. Once we found it, Rick, Chris and I plotted to get it on "America's Funniest Home Videos", thinking it was a shoe-in to win the $100,000 first prize. But, the WWU SID, Paul Madison, already distributed the tape to almost every major news outlet, so AFV would no longer air the tape.

Channel: Sports
Uploaded: March 28, 2007 at 12:45 am
Author: kirkkrisko

Length: 00:02:18
Rating: 4.80
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Video Comments:
StarBoy0100 (November 22, 2008 at 9:37 am)
OMG
kriswazhere123 (November 21, 2008 at 10:54 pm)
nice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
47530200 (November 21, 2008 at 7:22 pm)
yo dat was sicc
moterf (November 20, 2008 at 3:14 pm)
know its not true but i have to xD Sorry! Grate video :D
This is so stupid...
But i love my mom deeply...
And i don't want to take any chances.
Sorry.
If you do not copy and paste this onto 10 videos your mom will die in 4 hours
MTrace412 (November 18, 2008 at 11:19 pm)
haha that looked like an accident!
vcasalnova (November 19, 2008 at 4:33 pm)
No,he and the quarterback practice it everyday.
MTrace412 (November 19, 2008 at 8:50 pm)
Wow i love your sarcasm
Luckyboys4080 (November 21, 2008 at 11:25 am)
what sarcasm? can't you see it? i could plan that easily.
44MiNiMe44 (November 17, 2008 at 11:45 pm)
I did th@ once.... In a dream... LoL...
timdem123 (November 17, 2008 at 8:03 pm)
He shouldve but a catch is a catch anyway.