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Welcome back to the Sports Machine.
Well, the old year may be gone, but it's not forgotten.
At least not until we take a look back at the Plays of the Year 2000.
Let's go around the world with sports.
We blast off into our Plays of the Year.
Fasten your seatbelts, roll your BCRs.
I promise you a wild ride.
We start with our best balancing act by a football player.
This is Lars Olson of BYU.
Can you see doing that with your mom's kitchen table?
She'll just love you, man.
Let's get to our longest pass play.
This is NBA referee Ron Elesiak.
The super gris in Vancouver.
Oh, what a throw.
Hey, Ron, you got to take a bow.
Come on.
The fans are applauding your referee.
You know you've got to...
Yes, thank you very much, Ron Elesiak.
Oh, in your face award.
Olinda Mari with a kick.
You're the umpire wearing a camera.
Well, you got a good look at it for sure.
You know that one, man.
You know it was no good.
The pushed around award.
The Lions Lamar Campbell gets pushed by Jerry Wilson and Sam Madison.
Lamar, just take a dive.
They're going to push you all the way out to the Great Lakes
at the way you're going, man.
You got to be intense at all times.
You got to be like Joe Marciano.
You got to be intense.
If you're special teams, you got to be intense.
Go get them, Joe.
Oh, some receivers need only one hand to be great.
Randy Moss with our one-handed catch of the year.
Remember, they don't wear stick-em anymore, honestly.
Others, well, they need their whole body.
Like the Packers' Antonio Freeman.
This football comes off his helmet, off his shoulder, off his shoulder pad,
into his hand, up to his chest.
It rolls down his arm.
And then picks it up and says, hey, I'm going for the game-winning touchdown,
which Antonio Freeman did by using his whole body.
But the play of the year takes us back one year ago this week.
Yes, it was this one.
The Titans trailed the Bills 16 to 15, 10 seconds left.
Frank Wyczek to Kevin Dyson.
It's called the Music City miracle.
It's the one that gave the Titans the victory over the Buffalo Bills
that they will never forget.
22 to 16, and the Titans were on their way to the Super Bowl.
What a difference a year makes.
Hardest hits of the year?
There were several.
But Keyshawn Johnson, you were the recipient of the hardest hit
from the Lions, Corwin Brown.
Mm.
I just start laughing the minute I see this guy.
Do you know what this does to your buns?
This is the bun warmer.
You know what it's called?
Oh, baby.
Some guys will do anything.
Come on.
Come on.
Give me a real belly bounce.
Come on, you guys.
You're both body beautiful.
Neither one of whom is on a Weight Watcher diet.
The long shots of the year.
Northern Arizona's Ross Land, three-quarter court, and it counts.
Now, our longest shot, however, was not Ross Land.
Oh, no.
Our long shot goes to Claudette Powell of RC Hatch High in Alabama.
This is to win the state championship.
And it was good.
Claudette Powell will never be the same.
RC Hatch wins the state championship.
Our best long shot that didn't count, however,
that award goes to Adam Johnson of Coppel High in Texas.
He takes it.
It's an inbound pass.
It's supposed to be a pass.
But it goes right in.
No, it doesn't count.
It doesn't count.
I personally would have counted it just because I thought it was a great shot.
Best imitation of a referee.
Joe Craven of Weaver State.
Joe says, I think it was charging.
I think it was blocking.
I think it was technical.
I think it was a block.
I think it was a charge.
I think it was a block.
I think it was a charge.
Coach, what was it?
It was a block.
For sure, I knew it was.
Kind of gives you the heebie jeebies.
Yeah, man.
Get out of here, man.
It's wild.
How do you like pitching in Colorado?
My captain.
This was in Colorado.
Pitching in Colorado can do that to a guy.
My captain will enjoy playing in.
Oh, my.
Our three best catches of the year.
Chris Singleton of the White Sox.
It's two years in a row that Chris Singleton has had one of the three best catches.
That was good.
But I'll tell you what I like better.
Arizona's Louis Gonzalez, who said, give me the wall.
Now, let me climb.
He holds onto the wall while reaching up to make a home run robbing catch, robbing Ray
Langford of the Cardinals.
But the best of the year, Stan Javier of the Mariners.
Phil Nevin hit it.
It should be a home run.
But Javier gets it in his glove.
He flips it into the air while falling down, makes the catch, and Stan Javier gets our
catch of the year for $2,000.
Thank you, Stan.
We needed that.
Our toughest effort goes to Kowana Anderson of Portland State.
She's the left fielder going back, going back, out to the wall, through the wall, over the
river, and through the woods, but it dropped over for a home run.
But Kowana, that was the best effort.
Not all fences collapse.
Just ask Einar Diaz, who's got it.
Oh, man, now that will abruptly stop in a heartbeat.
Punch of the year.
One, two, and three.
Arturo Gotti on Joey Gamache.
Oh, Arturo, you got not one, but three.
Best disappearing act, Mike Madano of the Stars.
Now you see him.
Now where'd he go?
Adam Foote says, I think I buried him.
Look at it.
Look at the Avalanche bench.
Nobody will find him.
Oh, remember, not all glass is shatterproof.
You know that unbreakable glass?
Just ask Keith Primo of the Flyers.
He will tell you if Mike Greer hits you, it's going to shatter.
Real quick now, what we got to do is rearrange the furniture.
Robbie, take that soap.
Yeah, get that kitchen.
Oh, that's not the way we're supposed to rearrange it, Robbie.
The worst defensive play.
The Blues' Mark Bergevin, who catches the puck,
wants to clear it by throwing it behind his net,
and he inadvertently throws it into his own net.
It's a defensive play of the year that I promise he'll never forget.
Our golf shot of the year.
Lee Trevino at the US Seniors Open.
You say, Lee, where in the bleep are you hitting the ball?
It's way at the bottom of your screen.
But Lee Trevino knows what he's doing.
Oh, what a happy man.
Lee Trevino says, yeah, I got it all the way.
Oh, don't let the wind blow your hat away.
Whoops.
There goes Stewart Ginn's hat.
Stewart, go ahead and get your hat.
Whoops.
Now I've got to wait for it to come around, make the circle, and come back.
Now, if you golfers, you know, make a lot of money.
This guy just lost his dollar bill.
It's blowing away in the wind.
But hurry up. Get that dollar bill.
We'll hold the whole turn.
We'll hold the whole show.
You got it? You got it?
Whoops.
All this for one dollar.
And the guy probably made a million last year.
What goes up, folks, remember, eventually does have to come down.
We're in Lake Placid.
Martin Koch of Austria.
Remember, you're supposed to land on your skis.
Martin would get up and walk away from this.
But all the roughness of it all.
Speaking of rough, NHRA's wildest ride, Tony Schumacher in Memphis.
He would go through everything, tear up his equipment, and then return to racing in two weeks.
And I got to get back and win.
The roughest wreck anywhere in NASCAR.
It took place in the Craftsman Truck Series.
Jeffrey Bodine in Daytona.
It was one of the worst Craftsman Series truck races wrecks ever.
Jeffrey Bodine miraculously would be back to racing in the month of May.
The roughest ride as far as bull riders this year.
That award goes to Don L. Tipton on the real deal at the NFR in Las Vegas.
Don L. Tipton afterwards would say, man, I didn't mind that he bumped me and stepped on me,
but his horn really did hurt on the back of my head.
Worst wedding proposal.
He says, oh, hi.
He says, honey, this is our moment.
Will you agree to be my lawful wedded wife?
He says, you kidding me?
Are you, get real.
You're having my soda.
She ditches the soda.
She ditches the popcorn.
And then she ditches him and she says, I'm out of here.
Make your proposals in 2001.
Turn out better than that.
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