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 7:45 am
Author: kirkkrisko

Length: 00:02:18
Rating: 4.80
Views: 1160309

Tags: WWU Western Washington University Vikings Chris Moore ESPY football highlight Stiles Medved Issaquah

Video Comments:
wmc3504 (October 7, 2008 at 5:12 am)
lmao at reggie brooks
cleverusernamelol (October 7, 2008 at 2:09 am)
the reason he couldn't remake it on sports science,besides it being insane, was that great catches can't be forced, they just happen!! all the guys in the plays were great though
bjchit (October 6, 2008 at 4:49 am)
And even then he still scored.
williamc999 (October 6, 2008 at 12:51 am)
is theismann the guy announcing the winner?
nisiflskntl (October 5, 2008 at 10:03 pm)
theres not even that many people in the world so wow
foxman2518 (October 5, 2008 at 5:57 am)
is langham half cheetah?
undrgrnd56 (October 4, 2008 at 12:20 pm)
1:03 was at my school i think
roda2007 (October 2, 2008 at 11:48 pm)
the chances of that happening is 1 in 189 billion
tmoney519 (October 2, 2008 at 11:14 pm)
The catch was incredible, that goes without saying. But wow, that TD run by Brooks was just a flat out beastly effort.
ArtemisFowl2007 (October 2, 2008 at 5:07 pm)
2 words: David Tyree.