Best Plays of 2010: Near Disaster Averted vs. Firing Long Again

by Joel Hollingsworth on Jun 28, 2011 8:01 AM EDT in Tennessee Volunteer Football

In our second semi-final of the RTT Best Plays of 2010 Bracket, we have Near Disaster Averted taking on Firing Long Again. Near Disaster Averted made it here by beating Watch the Pretty Pattern and Tennessee Takes the Lead Against Alabama. Firing Long Again first beat Traffic, What Traffic and then, in a total surprise to me, Man-Sized Throw.

Now that the annual is available for preorder and the bracket is down to four plays, I'll go ahead and fess up to what I chose (with the help of Will and some others) as the top five plays of the 2010 season for one of the articles I contributed. They were Near Disaster Averted, Man-Sized Throw, The Accidental Touchdown, Stars and Checkerboards, and Stayin' Alive. So it's nice that three of those five ended up in the final four of the bracket. The rest of y'all are just wrong about Firing Long Again. ;-)

Anyway, what's your pick between Near Disaster and Firing Long? The videos and poll are below the jump. You only have today to vote on this one, as the winner takes on yesterday's winner tomorrow for the final.

Near Disaster Averted:

Firing Long Again:

Poll

Which play should advance to the finals?

Near Disaster Averted

33 votes

Firing Long Again

23 votes

56 votes | Poll has closed

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This one is tough

Firing Long Again was a prettier throw and catch. But I think The Simms pass was a better play. D Moore made a more impressive, and even though both Simms and Bray put the ball right on the money, Simms did it while feeling the pressure of the pocket closing in on him. Plus it was for the win in OT.

by golfballs03 on Jun 28, 2011 8:54 AM EDT reply actions

just noticed

the pocket was collapsing because Stocker didn’t even get a hand on that DE

by golfballs03 on Jun 28, 2011 8:57 AM EDT up reply actions

I'm still going for Near Disaster Averted

Because, again, this would have been a disaster worse than just losing to UAB. It would have been the disaster of starting off 1-7 and anything Bray did would just be “Well, best we can do is 5-7 so meh Dooley sucks.”

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by bobothevol on Jun 28, 2011 12:50 PM EDT reply actions