Two Texas high school football teams played one of those classic mismatch games Friday, where the dominant team racked up an easy 50-point victory.
Yet the most memorable play from the game, the one that has social media buzzing almost a week later, was a PAT.
The Gordon Longhorns defeated the Live Oak Classical Falcons, 58-8, so no drama there. The drama came after one of the Longhorns’ extra points.
The Longhorns kicker nailed the PAT, sending a perfect kick through the uprights. The ball sailed over a fence behind the field … and in a comical stroke of perfect timing, landed in the open window of an SUV passing by in the parking lot.
@SportsCenter #SCTop10 one in a million PAT kick. Car just happened to be driving by with their window down. @LOCSathletics pic.twitter.com/K16y6KwxFy
— Brice Helton (@BriceHelton22) September 16, 2023
Live Oak Classical coach Brice Helton posted the video on X (formerly Twitter), showing the madness. Incredibly, the car did not appear to slow down. Perhaps the driver didn’t notice a football fly into their vehicle. Or maybe they did, and it’s happened before, so they shrugged and kept driving.
As popular author Stephen King once noted, if 700 monkeys typed for 700 years, one of them would produce the works of Shakespeare. King didn’t say anything about monkeys kicking PATs, though. This play just seemed too bizarre to be real.
Dude Perfect, the hugely popular YouTube celebrities who rose to fame pulling stunts like that one, noted “10/10. Immaculate accidental timing & precision.”
10/10. Immaculate accidental timing & precision 🤌🔥
— Dude Perfect (@DudePerfect) September 16, 2023
Other people were just as amazed.
That should be worth 3 points at least
— JB (@crzgamin123) September 16, 2023
Who drives with windows open in Texas?
— Carole Heinz (@tailg8tor) September 17, 2023
The reaction from the kicking team of celebrating only after it entered the car. This is peak male happiness
— A wrecked isle dysfunction (@ensohenzo) September 16, 2023
Isn’t it a bit odd to not have a net since it’s right next to a road? Lol
— Richárd Arthür Lee IV (@RikL33) September 16, 2023
[Fort Worth Star-Telegram; Photo Credit: Brice Helton, Live Oak Classical]
