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:
http://msn.foxsports.com/other
/sto
more

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:
http://msn.foxsports.com/other
/story/...

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.

Category Sports

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