My parents ended up taking me home after the game and I got the news the next day. I read the paper and watched the film. I said, "I can't believe that happened. I kid you not. Shula: To turn the game around like that, after being down by 18, that's why the game is so great. With less than 30 seconds to play, and the clock running, the Dolphins hurried to the line of scrimmage. Marino yelled, "Clock! On the air, Maguire said, "He still has one timeout. He'll save that for the field goal.
Marino wasn't thinking field goal -- he fired an 8-yard touchdown to Ingram in the right corner of the end zone with 22 seconds left. The unsuspecting Jets, anticipating a spike, didn't react on the snap. Only three defenders moved: Washington, the left end; left tackle Paul Frase; and cornerback Aaron Glenn, who covered Ingram on the back-shoulder pass.
Mike Westhoff, Dolphins special teams coach: We always referred to that as Bernie's play. He came up with it. Shula: Bernie's play? Who told you that, Bernie? It was a play we practiced during the week. Kosar: If you watch the Jets-Browns [playoff] game in , you'll see the first two times the clock play was run. With about a minute to go [in regulation], on the 2- or 3-yard line, I used the clock play. Webster Slaughter was open and I underthrew him.
Eight years of my life, everywhere I went, we practiced that play, whether it was the Browns, the Cowboys or the Dolphins. It took eight years for the stars to be aligned for that situation to come up again.
Dellenbach: We worked on it on a weekly basis. Watching film, we saw some of their guys weren't really doing a whole lot when they knew the ball was going to be spiked, so we talked about this could be the week we do this. Kosar: I was on the headphones to Dan.
We had it called even before he got inside the yard line. Whether I called it or not, it didn't matter. We were so ingrained that we knew what we were going to do. Aaron Glenn was a phenomenal rookie cornerback, and he went on to have an excellent career, but we had Mark Ingram and Dan Marino.
We decided to pick on the rookie. Esiason: Bernie tried that bulls against us when he was with the Cleveland Browns and I was in Cincinnati. Marino: I was more involved in trying to get our team into position in hopes of having a chance to tie the game or win the game. I give Bernie Kosar credit. He brought the spike play to us from Cleveland, and he actually mentioned in my ear, "Think about the clock play, think about the clock play. Lageman: I was in a two-point stance, standing up, waiting for him to clock it.
I didn't come off the ball at mph like I normally did, because we never saw anyone fake it. We'd never seen a fake clock play up until that moment. Frase: I could've been the hero. I bull-rushed my guy [right guard Bert Weidner] and I got close, real close to Marino.
Two or three feet, that's what separated hero from goat. I knocked down three Marino passes in my career -- one hit my helmet and two I batted down. I needed that fourth one. It left a sick feeling in my stomach. Kosar: [Weidner] was one of my roommates, and he didn't even block. He let the tackle come right through.
If anyone should've known the play, it should've been him. He blew it, but Marino covered for him. Washington: I recognized the play pretty quickly. I knew he wasn't going to spike it. I could tell by his short setup and the way he opened up his hips. All I could do was get my hands up and try to block the pass. I don't think I missed it by that much, maybe a few inches.
I just wish I could've tipped it. Maybe I could've changed history. Glenn: It seems like that play was in slow motion, in my view, from beginning to end. The receiver was lining up and I'm looking at Marino's face. When I finally caught on, the ball already was snapped. It was one of those plays where I had that feeling, but my reaction wasn't quick enough. Marvin Jones, Jets linebacker: That play was ahead of its time.
To run that s at that time, no one did that. I was thinking it was some type of illegal play. We were out of sync. After he threw it and Ingram caught it, I was like, "What the hell just happened? Kosar: There is no signal, that's the beauty of it. A signal will give it away. It's on the quarterback to decide if he spikes it. The receiver might as well run the route. You may get it one out of 10 times But if that one out of 1, works, you have a monumental win.
Albert, NBC play-by-play announcer: Paul Maguire and I, we looked at each other in the booth and we each gave an indication of a spike. We both saw it, but we weren't sure. We said that to each other, just by hand signals. That's something, in the heat of the action, you could miss because it happened so fast. Maguire: Watching Marino do that, you throw your hands up, like, "Who the hell would think about doing that?
Vincent: If any player tells you we were going to do what we did, no, that's the furthest thing from the truth. The truth was, the best thing we could do was tie the game and go to overtime. Dellenbach: We weren't percent sure [the fake] could happen at that moment, or when it was going to happen, but we were attuned to what was going on.
Albert on the telecast : "We are seeing another spectacular effort by Marino, who fires Maguire: "You know what the Jets are thinking? He's gonna take the ball and throw it into the ground. They all stopped. If you take a look at it, the offensive linemen, all they did was stand up. And Marino says to Ingram, that's a communication thing they have. I mean, this is a beautiful play. They catch the Jets napping. Jeff Bergman, line judge: I looked over to [back judge] Bill Lovett, who signaled touchdown, and I saw a shocked look on his face.
I remember dead silence. I guarantee you, the entire stadium was in shock. The cornerback was in shock. The only two people not in shock were Marino and the wide receiver, and the receiver had this look on his face, like, "Does this really count? Vincent: Next thing you know, you could hear a pin drop. Then you could hear our sideline erupt -- a pin drop to an eruption.
You're not even looking at the JumboTron. You're looking and saying, "What just happened? Why are we all cheering like this? Bergman: When the play was over, Bill Lovett and I got together. I asked him, "You ever see anything like that? The Dolphins went on to win a playoff game before elimination in the divisional round. Ingram, who scored four touchdowns in the Jets game, played only two more years.
In , he received a seven-year prison sentence for money laundering and fraud. Two more years were added to Ingram's sentence when he jumped bail. He declined to be interviewed for this story, according to an official at the Yazoo City Federal Correctional Complex in Mississippi. The Jets never recovered, finishing the season at amid turmoil in the locker room. The team was dismantled by the new administration. Carroll, blindsided by his ouster, was hired by the 49ers as their defensive coordinator.
Glenn: It's a play I'll never forget because it went to my guy, but I remember telling Victor Green on the sideline, "I'm going to get Dan back for that. Esiason: After the game, I got stuck in traffic at the Lincoln Tunnel. I remember listening to the radio, people calling in and getting roasted. There was a fender bender, with a woman slumped over her steering wheel.
I was debating whether or not to get out of my truck. If I got out and played hero, everybody around me was going to know who I was. I got out and, sure enough, it was like being back in the stadium, getting heckled. It was one of those surreal moments, one of those surreal Jets moments.
Washington: The next day, Ronnie Lott went into the PR office, made copies of the standings and passed them out in the locker room, showing everybody we were still in the race.
It was too late, our morale was crushed. The next week, we got blown out by New England, the strangest game I've ever been in. No one was saying anything in the huddle -- total silence.
There was no rah-rah stuff, no one was saying, "Nice play, way to go. Jones: I think that one game beat us four more games. We let one game beat us for the rest of the season. Frase : We were in a state of shock. It was just ridiculous. We couldn't get our heads back in the game. Oh, man, it was frustrating. Washington: Some of the guys, to be honest, quit on Pete. That was the shame of it. That loss exposed some of our wounds.
It ripped the scabs off the wounds we already had. Some guys just flat-out quit. Lageman: It's one of those memories you put away into one of the places in your brain you never want to remember. Marino: I think playing the Jets made it memorable, beating them the way we beat them and came back. We were behind, and we had four touchdown passes in the second half -- and also because no one ever really did [a fake spike] before in a national kind of spotlight game.
That's what made it memorable. Albert: It was probably one of the most memorable plays [I've covered as a broadcaster].
I'd have to put it right at the top. New York moved the ball down field on their next possession, but a game-changing interception from Troy Vincent gave the Dolphins anl opportunity to cut the lead in half. The rest, will go down as one of the greatest 4th quarter drives in NFL history. Marino completed big play after big play. Marino hurried the offense to the line, signaled to Ingram on the outside, and threw a perfect pass to shock the New York Jets, and the world.
His 9 receptions for yards and 4 touchdowns secured the win for Miami. Do you remember where you were on this historic day in ? Have any suggestions on what you would like to see in the next installment of Marino Mondays? Let us know in the comments below. Dan Marino throws for 5 touchdowns vs New England in Dan Marino leads the Dolphins to victory over the undefeated Chicago Bears.
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