I legitimately don’t understand why people reference this so much as a memorable moment. It wasn’t particularly unique or interesting. Shit like this has happened before and has happened since. It would make it into a random bloopers youtube video, but it’s not some all time moment.
This context makes the cultish following of this play make more sense, thank you. I’ll say it’s still held in too high a regard since you need all that context to really understand why it’s significant. It’s also significant as a point in time for a mediocre team becoming bad, which isn’t particularly noteworthy in the grand history of the NFL. I’m still gonna hate on it, but maybe not as much as I used to.