mark clayton making that catch ON HIS BACK sliding down the snow covered field in chicago either 91 or 92.
one that doesnt get a lot of mention is JOE AURE'S run for a td on the opening kickoff of the miami dolphins 1st ever game.
not many teams out there that can say their teams 1st play EVER was a touch down.
clayton dragging 4 jets itno the endzone starting from about 20 yds out. clayton was and INCREDIBLE athlete and if football would have been the center piece of his life, he would own all the major wr records. he hated to practice, [he and shula had no love for each other at all] but he knew EVERY PLAY in the phone book size dolphins playbook AND the assignments of EVERY player for each play. marino and other players refered to him MANY TIMES on the field. even coaches in meetings sometimes would ask him things or to verify. in his senior year of college, he jumped over a ping pong table LENGTH WISE!!
he was a real enigma. clayton and the jets corner JAMES HASTY hated each other with a passion. hasty was rodney harrison before there was a rodney harrison. so all week, hasty had been at the top of his mouth game in the press saying how he was going to knock clayton out of the game. he wouldnt be making one catch, etc... . well, clayton was all over him and had caught several passes and if i remember right, already had a td. hasty isnt pleased, clayton is in his head and there has already been penalties handed out.
so marino has the team down to about the 40 yd line and he hits clayton over the middle where hasty crashes him HARD but clayton has the ball and wont go down with hasty hanging on for dear life! then another jet comes in and another...... and clayton is dragging them........, all the way to the end zone!!
that is probably my favorite play in finz history and another that doesnt get mentioned a lot.
