I might have solved the alltime greatest mystery

[Bornthrilla]

For almost 15 years now, A&T fans have wondered just how in the world was lead-footed Jay Walker able to run for that game-winning TD run against us in the legendary 1993 homecoming showdown.

Well now, after closely looking at the game film I think I have a shocking answer:




We ONLY HAD 10 MEN ON THE FIELD.

Check it out:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkVF3tSyT4o



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At the start of the clip you can clearly count three (3) down lineman, one (1) linebacker and two (2) corners.

Thats is total of six (6) players.

Then, right before the ball is snapped two (2) more linebackers cheat up and come on the screen.

That adds up to a total of eight (8) players.

Finally, once Walker starts his 25-yard sprint towards history, you will see a strong safety coming running up the middle of the field and finally the free safety who looked slower than the ref Charles Barkley raced during Allstar weekend.

That brings the final total to just 10 players.



Now this discovery tells me three important things:

1) Bill Hayes might have had a Joe Gibbs moment in what was then the biggest game of his coaching career

2) Jay Walker has received way too much credit over the years for scoring against a shorthanded defense.

3) I have waaay too much free time on my hands.

[DOOMS]

Didn't really matter. We'd missed our opportunity to score on our overtime possession. Unless we caused a turnover they were bound to score.

[The Professor]

Dude who had me looking at this for like ten min. Their is another LB about three yards deep on the left side. When walker runs by, the number of aggies change from 3 to 4 on that side and thats 11.

Man, I remember that game, I was 13

[Bornthrilla]

Didn't really matter. We'd missed our opportunity to score on our overtime possession. Unless we caused a turnover they were bound to score.

Did they have a decent field goal kicker that year?

[Bornthrilla]

Dude who had me looking at this for like ten min. Their is another LB about three yards deep on the left side. When walker runs by, the number of aggies change from 3 to 4 on that side and thats 11

Are you sure? I think that was just the first linebacker who had dropped back into coverage and picked up the TE.

[DOOMS]

I think the field goal kicker's name was Rueben Ruiz and he was pretty good. I honestly don't think we would've held them out of the end zone.

[aggiehood08]

I remember watching that game on BET with dad. (He went to Howard.)

[aggiesjh88]

Actually, the kicker was Carl Warren. He was from somewhere around Fayetteville NC. He was suppose to be one of the top kickers in the State of NC. We came in together as freshmen at A&T. I remember he had the golden key. Nobody could touch Carl Warren and everyone on the team knew that, because Coach Hayes made that CLEAR. So, while all us other freshman was going through the normal freshman thing from the upper classman. Carl thought he had made it through. He was one of three white kids that came in that year. Coach Hayes was really cranking up the diversity. One of the other ones passed out every practice. After the third time of Andy passing out Coach just told the EMC's to come back everyday. Of course Andy ended up quitting. Carl missed about 3 to 4 field goals that game. With one being in overtime that would've won the game before the last overtime. After the game Coach didn't even have to say anything. The boys knew that the golden pass had just been taken away. Let's just say Carl Warren didn't return to A&T the following year. He could truely kick, but it must have been the pressure. I don't care what anyone say or the records say. The was the most people ever in Aggie Stadium and it will never be like that again. We couldn't even sit down on the bench, because the fans had taken over. The refs had to call timeouts to get the crowd out of the end zones on both ends. It was crazy!!!!!

[natedizzle]

i remember it well. those were the days.

[DOOMS]

I was referring to Howard's kicker being Rueben Ruiz.

But I remember Carl. He was supposed to be the solution to all our kicking woes. We just forgot kicking also involves a holder, a long-snapper, and the line holding up (and the wind cooperating).

I never liked the play call to throw the bomb two plays in a row at the end of regulation. I (along everybody else sitting with me in the end zone) wondered why James White wasn't given the ball all the way down the field. The only person that could stop him from getting four to five yards that day was Coach Hayes.

C'est la vie...