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 pm
Author: kirkkrisko

Length: 00:02:18
Rating: 4.81
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Tags: WWU Western Washington University Vikings Chris Moore ESPY football highlight Stiles Medved Issaquah

Video Comments:
CoolDog202 (January 7, 2009 at 11:20 am)
i know right
nickyknees (January 7, 2009 at 9:10 am)
who cares it is wat it is its called football get over it were not gonna change it now
t3b4n22 (January 7, 2009 at 6:44 am)
why is this called FOOTball if they almost always use their hands???? the only time they use their feet is when they kick the ball....
KnowYourTeam (January 6, 2009 at 7:05 pm)
This catch was 2% skill, 98% luck. I know, I lecture at Maths. This is a fact bitch, learn it.
Caldwell1132 (January 6, 2009 at 11:02 am)
W/e man. Like I said to the last idiot that tried saying I was jealous. I don't have to argue with you. I don't care about fame and all that bullshit. I care about playing football. I'm going to continue to play football in college and that's what matters to me. I honestly don't care if you like what I said or not. I stand behind my statements. But I'm done with petty arguing over the internet.
Caldwell1132 (January 6, 2009 at 11:00 am)
Apologize, the play of the year. not most amazing play. I like the run better than that catch personally. But that's my opinion. I don't think this catch deserves play of the year.
nickyknees (January 6, 2009 at 10:36 am)
who said it was the "most amazing play" anyway
nickyknees (January 6, 2009 at 10:32 am)
u said u wouldve caught it the first time but everyone drops passes occasionally so how do u know u wouldve caught it and u said it took zero skill to make this catch but it def took some skill and a lot of luck to make the grab ur definately jealous cuz this kid got more famous for one catch than ull ever be.
Caldwell1132 (January 6, 2009 at 8:31 am)
When did I ever say I never drop a pass? I'm playing Division 3 because I'm 150 lbs and 5'9" and not extremely fast and because Sewanee is the right place for me. I've visited Yale and Tennessee and a few other D 3 schools in Indiana and Mississippi and none of them felt right and Sewanee feels right. I'm not jealous of this catch. I just don't like the fact that the "most amazing play" was generated off a dropped pass.
nickyknees (January 6, 2009 at 7:23 am)
cry about it weirdo ur heads probably shaped like a football