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  • My favorite player of all time. NOBODY ever worked harder for Bama. Thanks for the memories, Bro, and God bless.

  • I tear up every time I see this. He is a very classy guy. I meet him at the mall one day and he took the time to take a picture with me and talked a little. Now he is a bank teller in Tuscaloosa. One of my favorite players in Alabama history! ROLL TIDE!!!

  • I don't even like Alabama, but I fucking loved Tyrone Prothro. He was exciting and amazing, and it's a great tragedy his career was cut so short.

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  • hes a guy where, someone could clone him to the tiniest detail, and he did the same things the exact way Prothro did...and it still couldnt compare

  • dang he was good... yall missed out losing him..

  • Would have gotten the hiesman..

  • Man, I'm a diehard Florida fan, but this is so sad to watch. He was an outstanding receiver, and he could've easily been playing on Sundays. A stupid choice by Mike Shula to have him in when the game was already said and done. Roll Tide and Go Gators. SEC all day!

  • I don't know what they put in the water in Cleburne County, AL but what ever it is it is obviously potent!!!!!!!

  • one of my favorite players

  • one of my favorite players

  • You can't make those moves on a videogame

  • Wow... this is amazing.

    

  • this dude is a very good football player he was 1 of the best

  • Down right dirty

  • I get goose bumps everytime I watch this video! RTR!!!

  • @atlbama7 rtr!

    

  • im 12 right now and i wasnt old when this happened i was like 6 and when i saw his leg snap i was in tears because im a die hard alabama fan and will always be ROLL TIDE!!

  • his knee was actually down before he scored that touchdown on "THE CATCH"

  • @eb0nikz They didn't give bama the TD on that play. They scored on the next.

  • I'm almost in tears seeing Prothro in that stretcher... he didn't deserve that. We're talking about a man that had a promising future @ wide receiving in the NFL. Guess it wasn't God's will...

    God Bless Prothro and Alabama. ROLL TIDE!

  • fuck you mike shula...he shouldnt have been playing. he could be making millions every sunday but not anymore.

  • 1:37 thumbs up for him screaming the music lolz

  • was this before or after his injury 

  • ELECTRIFYING. Goose bumps. Ty, you are the best - don't forget it.

  • @jennincl i got goosebumps when he brought out the gameball haha i miss him i cried terribly when his injury happened even though i was like 9 haha but he was ur best

  • Guess who was at the game where he ran out on the field for the first time since his injury? ME!! I got the chill bumps and got all tingly, it was amazing!! Meet him and david palmer last year, both are really amazing guys. Prothro is my inspiration when i play football

  • shula should be sending a check to protho every month for the rest of his life

  • Every receiver at Bama should watch highlights of Tyrone Prothro.

  • Prothro was the best palyer in the country in 2005 he had 3 tds against Floria 1 of those calle back because of a bs call it was a run. He was very agile an he ha very oog spee great insticts an tremenous passion to never stop. He was a competitor and Shulaball is to blame

  • 40 YRS watching Alabama football,and I've never seen anyone better.

  • this makes me hate Shula why have your star player in when you are winnin by like 20

  • @lfballer0 27.

  • Very good shot at #1 with Prothro that year. The offense tanked after he went down. A part of that was coaching though.

  • This dude was f...ng amazing.

  • Tennessee fan here. I've never been crazy about 'Bama, but I loved watching Tyrone Protho play, and it saddened me to see his career ended by injury.... especially when there was no point in his staying on the field! I mean, I enjoy seeing Florida embarrassed, but not when the cost is this high.

  • Awesome video. Roll Tide!

  • Julio is nothing like prothro no one will ever be able to compete with him he was number 1 he was the best no one he almost broke to record for most punt return yard in 1 seson and a half that took haviar a whole 4 years and still didnt get it prothro is number 1

  • If Mike Shula wasn't so stupid to be throwing passes to the endzone up by 4 TD's late in the game Prothro would still be playing. He WAS the offense in 2005.

  • Dang! That catch at the So. Miss game was incredible! I was at that game...

  • Prothro made FL look like a bunch of panzies that day. It was so awesome

  • The best fucking wide receiver of all time in alabama. Roll Tide.

  • Still brings tears to my eyes every time I watch the first 41 seconds of this video... Prothro just knew his career was over, but he wasn't going to show it. Not out there in front of everybody he wasn't.

  • Just a remider for all the fans that complain about not running up the score or going for it on a non needed 4th down. Glad I got his autograpgh on his picture. It wont ever be worth anything in reality but worth millions to BAMA NATION! Roll Tide Baby. Ill see yall next season

  • Lord bless him, and his family... What a great player... He would be making millions right now, but Shula went for it on 4th down, and our offensive line sucked, therefore Brodie was hit and throw a bad ball.. Roll Tide baby!

  • wow what this guy could have become! im a gator fan and this guy was live as fuck! god bless him.

  • people talk Julo up, wtf? this guy is Julo's daddy. I mean, the last time Bama had a guy like Prothro was David Palmer....Prothro was ridiculous.

  • @mayhemlee you are retarded. Pull up his stat sheet while at alabama

  • @jennlyles dude he was saying that Ty was a great player

  • I don't care that he's gone because he was a good player. I care because he played for the Aalabama Crimson Tide. He was family. The SEC is the confrence that have crazy fans.

    ROLL TIDE!!

  • How is that not the greatest catch possible? It has to be...

  • Will the "The CATCH" forEVER !! !!

    Tyrone was The Best !!

  • Great Player wish he was on this team now Maze is a player just like him!

  • why couldnt he play after his injury

  • It got a staph infection, which fucked up his whole recover process.

    He still walks with a limp to this day.

  • what the awesome song at the beggining when he is hurt?

  • This guy is my hero. Everytime I watch the first part of this it makes me so sad/mad, this guy would have done wonderous things. Thanks for putting this up!

  • He did do wonderous things but i know what you mean.

    More wonderous, More NFL, the was the best to ever touch football.

  • Florida was the cause of all this . He would have been a legend

  • he would have been a nfl stud! that injury was fuckin horrific!

  • i aint even no bout this dude till now... sure glad i watched this shit he was a beast ass player... fucked up it all ended on a injury.. guess the pros wasnt ready for him yet

  • anybody who is fucking hating on this man tim tebow is like the lions quarterback to this man look up the catch dipshits and youll see why florida sucks and this man could have been the best heisman winner and his pro carrer DAMMIT!!!! shula why i will always hate you for this

  • @sabannationmlr we can blame shula for alot of things. Need i say more. but this was an accident. he put himself on the edge to make the big plays And thats what makes him great.

  • I would be more inclined to believe it was an accident; except it could have been prevented. When Prothro got hurt, the score was 28-3 Bama, they were within field goal range, and Shula decides to go for it on 4th down.

    Who's fault is it again?

  • @g6iii Brodie Croyle for under throwing the ball and allowing the defender to recover...

  • Brodie also got hit while throwing the ball up. As I said before, should have been out as soon as the fourth started.

  • @g6iii So what you are saying is Brodie underthrew the ball in a game of violence?

  • ...what the fuck are you even talking about? What does football being a game of violence have to do with anything? You're probably just trolling.

  • is that your response to resort to the "trolling" commnet? In football, injuries happen because it is a game of violence. Do I need to write it slower? HAd he put even just 1 more yard on the throw, Prothro is possibly running around in the NFL now.

  • Thank you Captain Obvious. I'm sure that no one realized that football is a violent sport, we all appreciate that newsflash.

    Had Brodie not gotten hit on the play, he would have been able to lay the ball in the back of the end zone, and Prothro would have had his third touchdown of the day...

    ...then again, if Shula didn't feel the need to run the score up, Croyle wouldn't have been in the game to under throw the pass, and Prothro wouldn't have been in the game to get injured.

  • and had the offensive line blocked and not let Brodie get hit...if and buts, candy nuts type of thing...hey, had Bama just not shown up at all, no injuries!!!

  • Yeah, I know, hindsight = 20/20; but that still doesn't detract from the fact that it was a dumbass coaching decision by a dumbass coach. I can live with having the starters in at that point; but what was the point of going for it on 4th down when you are up 28-3, and you're in field goal range? Christ, Shula was a shitty coach.

  • Shitty coach, yes. Shitty decision, yes. Shitty throw, yes. It's football, yes.

  • We can all thank Shula for this. Tyrone was one of the best players I've ever seen. It's a real shame.

  • he was easily one of the best players to ever wear the crimson jersey, even tho' it was short lived. If Bama had him this year they would run away with the national title, he was that good.

  • This guy was amazing. Just look at the first 3 letters of his last name...

  • thats odee smart lmaoo

  • whats odee

  • he said just look at the last 3 letters in his last name "p.r.o"

  • those are the first three dude

  • oh my fault ,majot malfunktion LOL

  • i remember back in 06 it was senior night at cleburne county high school the school he went to and the one i go to now his brother was a senior that year when they called his name the whole place got louder than i have ever imagined it would

  • if he would have not snapped his leg we would have gone allll the way

  • Tyrone Prothro was one of the greatest bama players ever. Alabama was undefeated that season until that accident and just imagine what he could have done that year for Alabama, a sec championship, a national championship. All I have to say his legacy will live forever.

  • I'm a freaking USC fan and I'm brought to the point of tears watching this video. I mean, its sad to see him in that Florida game just destroying the defense, and then a second later its all over. Why he was in the game is beyond me, but its such a sad thing.

  • the coaching that kept him in the game is the same coaching that sank us into the worst era in our history

  • GREAT VIDEO!!!!

  • best ever

  • it makes you wonder what if that accident never happen. what his career would have turned into. sec player of the year? heisman candidate? heisman winner.

  • Things happen for a reason, but there was no way Shula should have had him in this game, when it was very very over!

    They were up by at least 25 pts. with like 4 minutes left.

  • Prothro said that he never blamed Shula for what happened, he has said that he would have been upset if coach had taken him out of that game.

  • Tyrone would say that. His cousin works in the barbershop I go to here in Anniston, AL. and he is a nice guy at least from what I've heard because I'm not going to lie and say we kick it.

    Fact is the game was over, and even the BSPN analysts' were questioning why he was in the game, when UF was buried!

  • The greatest catch in Football History Period!!!!!!!

  • who did we play that game he got hurt?

  • Florida

    I think it was reggie nelson who fell on the leg

  • The Gators

  • Florida.

    We won 31-3

  • imagine his senior year, or his pro career he could have got a heisman ah well

  • best vid ever tyrone was the best he could have had such a great career

  • awesome video.man i wish he would have made it.kid ran like he had a rocket strapped to his ass and caught the ball like he was born with super glue hands

  • BEST PROTHRO HILIGHT REEL EVER! Man, this gave me cold chills. I remember watching him. He inspired me to become a WR, and I started for my JV team last year. Dude it truly amazing!

  • hey bruce! it's GMS. :P

  • lol hey gms :) i see you saw the link I posted

  • for all yall stupid utah fans. 12 national championships. Utah has none.Now go back to the wac.When you play in the weakest conference in football it doesnt take a lot of energy. it does to go 12-1 in the sec where every team is better than a team in the wac except tennessee. Now go watch yalls own sucky highlights.

  • I remember watching this. classy player. Wish he could have got to show his full potential.

  • that wut we breed here at cleburne county. pure athletes!

  • Does bama have anyone as smart as Forrest Gump?

  • census surveys show that most of the state probably might be close....

    the UTES are tiger bait next year!!!!!

  • UTES are the TRUE NATIONAL CHAMPS!!

  • He was fun to watch. Heard he got a gig coaching somewhere. I wish him the best.

  • the only bama player ive liked...

  • they don't get better than pro...that 05' team was never the same.....

  • he could have a better career than desmond howard

  • this sucks what happened to tp cause he was an awesome football player and he has in my opinion the greatest catch in college football history but i may be biased.

  • Its so sad how one day you can be imagining your self in the nfl and the next day your being carted away for a injury that ends your career

  • that injury shouldn't have ever happened it was 31-3 why pass.

  • so true. I almost understand the pass, I just don't think that pass was meant to be a deep ball. Just players trying to make plays

  • evrytime i see this video it makes mee wannna cryy......... justt wit oneeee hittt coulddd fk yourrr life uppp you think your goin to the pross thennn in one momment your at the hospytal wit alll your bodyyy broked upp

  • he didnt die he just snaped his leg and that hert i had that to and i could fell his pain

  • man i feel for him. i heard that alabama took away his scholarship after that. i am an alabama fan but that was wrong.

  • they gave him a medical hardship scholarship

  • well there wasnt much else they could do his carrer is over sadly. i remember me and my dad crying cause we knew our season was over and a great players carrer just ended

  • WAR eagle, but he was awesome. My dad met him in person. Very nice guy

  • He had a great future ahead of him. But it was all taken away...

  • As much as I dislike Alabama being an Auburn.. this kid was one of a kind.. it's so sad what happened.. I wish him the best

  • i had a tear to my eye when i saw that. R.I.P prothro. roll tide

  • What? RIP? Did he die??

  • no but he never played football again

  • Wow. You said RIP because he broke his leg??? You Alabamans take your football way to literally. "RIP" is what you say when talking about dead people. Not injured ones.

  • Roll Tide Roll!

  • how bout yall junkies shut up. bitch its ROLL TIDE!we taking down everybody florida,auburn,and arkansas

  • bull shit, you are outta your mind. prothro was the best out there. and now that your utes beat bama you think that they can take on anyone. there wasn't a single player out there that could shut him down. and now you think a utah player could cause they beat bama, be serious

  • HA!

    Sean Smith would shut him down. Nothing is more over-rated than the POS SEC.

    The Utes pounded you rat-bastards back to your trailer parks and jacked-up trucks.

    Roll tide my ass.

  • rat bastards? trailer park? jacked up truck? bitch i don't live in a trailer park or own a jacked up truck, and i dont know any rat bastards

    tyrone prothro would dominate that weak bitch end of story

  • youre a mormon. stfu

  • And you're in Alamaba, where the state's high point it the fat chick down the street.

    Sounds like you're a bigot too. Nice, I'm sure most of you're team would love to know that. Know who else is a mormon? Paul Kruger and half the Utes, who just bitch-slapped your ass!

  • and youll never be no.1 no matter how many times you go undefeated. Sucks to be from somewhere that no one cares about, doesn't it? you can go through your pancake schedule, build up to one game and win. But you'll never be no. 1.

  • Utah beat more ranked teams than the the rolled turds, or whatever bama's name is.

    Utah will go undefeated again before bama does.

    Bigots.

  • and you still won't be no 1! SUCKS! go undefeated in the SEC, then have you best player suspended and your starting running back injured when it's 21-17, and have some no name school pull out all the stops and STILL win. then I'll listen to your shit league's reasoning to be a bcs conference.

  • hey littledouche, The UTES owned you little redneck, illiterate bitches.

    Alamaba has the national title in marrying your sisters.

    Nothing you did could match Utah's speed or physical play.

    Keep on bitching though, it shows your true colors.

  • your comments are so much classier lol. youre not gonna get your planet now, too bad mormoron.

  • So Forrest Gump IS the most intelligent Alabama alum....

    My planet will crap on your planet.

  • WTF are you talking about with the planets???

    As much as i hate to say it florida is the true national champ. if you hold the best CFB offense to 14 you deserve the title no matter what some little bitch on youtube says.

  • mormonism. you get a planet. get with the times!

    badelier, your unoriginal and boring to argue with. i mean, i go to auburn, you have no idea what youre talking about. When you win ONE national title, just ONE, ill listen to you.

  • Couldn't get in to Alabama?

    Auburn? Do they still play football or is that a hockey school?

    Utah would not have lost to Ol' Miss, that's for sure.

  • you just stated some crap about how i go to alabama so i must be biased. I don't go to Alabama, I actually go to their most hated rivals school, and I still say Alabama would have destroyed Utah. If had they had the best OT in CF, and not had their starting Rb injured the running game would have crushed Utahs Dline. I understand that this was the biggest win in Utah's history so you gotta make it as big as possible, but this was just another bowl game to Bama.

  • dooce: you're nuts if you really think that. Utah's best strong side LB was out of the game. NOBODY ran on Utah. When the Utes beat So Cal in the Vegas Bowl, USC had 1 yard rushing.

    One. Yard.

    One missing OT didn't make bama's defense suck balls. Bama's defense sucked balls all on their own. Kruger was good enough to be a 2nd round pick for the Ravens. Your head case OT wouldn't have dominated him by any stretch.

    What happened to the portly D-tackle? He was DOMINATED by Utah's o-line.

  • Its not that they would have ran all over them, its that it would have opened up the passing game. You can't honestly think Bama would not have at least gained 50 more yards on the ground with Smith and a health RB. That would have taken the constant pressure off JP because Utah would have to respect the run. Not that complicated. What's crazy is that I was a big fan of Utah until i found out how obnoxious their fans are. You guys are horrible.

  • the media blows him (DT Terrence Cody) out of proportion if thats really possible. He's not a dominate player he's just really really really really really big

  • (i'm just guessing so don't bash me too bad if I'm wrong) does Auburn have ONE national title, just ONE?

  • We have half of one, and we were on probation. Also have a 13-0 season while on probation.

  • never heard of a half NC what year are you reffering to? I remember the 04-05 season, and I'll definately give ya a half for that.

  • Um, google? 1957. Youve never heard of half a NC? did you start watching CF in 2005? there was a split in 2004 with LSU and USC.

  • i certainly don't remember 1957.... little before my time

  • that came off rude, my bad didn't mean it to be.

  • it's cool.... I'm an LSU fan first so I know all about the bullshit split.... in 04 LSU won a whole title b/c they beat #1 OU in the title game.

  • gasper: then why did Utah demolish bama while the gators struggled?

  • you can't go from game to game like that because different factors effect the same team on different games. for instance, bama was missing their best player in the sugar bowl and UF was missing their 2nd best in the SEC game. Besides that football is all about matchups and doing a 3 way comparison you lose that.

    UF def. Bama by 10

    Utah def. Bama by 14 not much difference there anyway.

  • UF struggled with Bama. Besides one punt return, Utah did not struggle with Bama. Bama was down one OT. He had no affect on Utah scoring 21 points before the 1st quarter was over.

    Utah's lines dominated Bama's lines. Bama was not expecting Utah's speed and had no answer for it.

    One OT wouldn't have changed the outcome. If Bama is so good, why wasn't their #2 & #3 OT better than Utah's end?

  • regardless of whatever you can possibly say both games were decided by exactly two possesions. like i said, its a game of matchups. andre smith could have stopped the Utah end. JPW is a terrible QB under pressure and without the leader of the O-line the Utah d-line was able to dominate. There's no doubt Utah was the better team. but UF was the best

  • The Utah end, Paul Kruger, is doing well in the Raven's camp. He would have held his own going up against Smith.

    Bama couldn't pick up Utah's blitz and Utah blitzed on nearly every pass play.

    UF may have won but Utah would have given them a hell of a game.

  • i totally agree utah deserved to be in the title game just as much as UF and OU.  it's a broken, money grubbing system.

  • if u just lost the national title spot you wouldnt give a shit about playing some nobody school in a weak bowl game.

  • They gave him a shitty doctor who fucked his leg back up. He might have been able to play if a proper doctor had handled it well

  • i heard that one time

    i think that's the reason he is out his life

  • he was one of the best players ive ever seen. he made extrordinary catches. its sad to see one of the best go down the way he did.

  • he broke he fublia and tublia i think

    but he was the best WR/RB in collage i saw

  • what kind of name is Prothro? cause that name is awesome

  • dam that last catch was nice?

  • is he in the NFL cause i searched everywhere

    and i didn't find anything

  • anything-something on him being the NFL

  • no, he can't play anymore because of his broken leg, it was too serious of a break

  • man he was my favorite NCAA player

  • i think he would've won the heisman, and gone all pro

  • i wish he recovered which he did

    but i wish he could play again

  • I want to have him back in college football.

    he was a great wide reciever and returner!!

  • he was gonna be the best....it hurts everytime i see him on that stretcher.....i was there when he brought out the game ball at the bama auburn game that year....even the auburn fans clapped for him...he had earned so much respect in his little time there