Greatest Football Catch Ever - Chris Moore, WWU (1992)

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/6072132

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.

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[MrOsudude2]

its funny cause wwu doesnt have a football team anymore

[Carrek1]

@ICU2CUDEAD4GOOD You totally just copied that from the top comment of another video I was just watching.

[Xtremesportsprod]

Check out this awesome catch by a High School player Joey Chenoweth. Just click on my channel and its my featured video. The catch is at 0:18 of the video.

[jonhwilson1]

Ive seen better

[BABYtothe40]

not a chatch ha

[ryant5050]

@jamiep0 hahah thats so true, gotta make the highlights some how

[dannyboiiLP14]

I used to catch footballs like this all the time.... but then I took an arrow to the knee

[TaeSmOOve1]

he did a get lite move with the ball

[jamiep0]

@ryant5050 why catch with just your hands when you can catch in style

[ryant5050]

He should have caught it the first time it hit his hands like he was supposed to.