The kicker who kicked a touchdown to himself
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- Опубліковано 20 вер 2024
- It’s ok if the name Chester Marcol doesn’t mean anything to you. After today though, try and clear out a special place in your brain for our friend Chester.
He has lived a very interesting life, which you can read all about here, and became a fairly solid kicker for the Packers throughout the 1970s. He made a couple All-Pro teams, won NFC Rookie of the Year, eventually even was enshrined in the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame.
But absolutely none of that matters. There is only one thing you need to know. Chester Marcol scored one of the dumbest touchdowns you’ll ever see. Everything you need to know is in the video above, including footage of the actual play, if that’s all you really want to see then skip ahead to like three minutes in.
Video by Will Buikema, Ryan Simmons, Kofie Yeboah
Shot and edited by Jiazhen Zhang
Animations by Phil Pasternak
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He's just out here kicking touchdowns.
Alex Snitzer Ah I see you too are a man of culture
That sounds... pretty good
You're ma BOIS !!
HitchhikersPie actually more like there’s nothing like a chart party !
Alex Snitzer that’s what I thought this was gonna be except the kicker would recover it
Imagine being coked out of your mind and a cop bear hugs you
Selfish Stockton 😂
Good point loolllll
Selfish Stockton LMAO That nightmare ruined his once in a lifetime moment.
Maybe that's why he was terrified XD
He was High!!
"Our coked-up kicker outran your whole defense" was how we survived arguments with Bears fans in the 1980s.
Oh, how times have changed. Lol Bears fan here. LMAO
Our rookie kick returner outran your entire team
@@BoeJurrow Well, that's his job, unlike the coked up kicker who should be the easiest man on the planet to tackle. 😂
@@mpbMKE how should someone with greatly heightened adrenaline be harder to catch???
@@BoeJurrow He was the most out-of-shape player on the team (owing to the coke habit), he wore heavy prescription glasses on the field and he was the damn kicker. 😂😂😂
Stop trying to take this so seriously.
And he was wearing glasses to signify that time had passed
John Mulaney
#UnexpectedMulaney
Sometimes I get nervous on airplanes.
I'm new in town, and it gets worse.
I wounder if that was a super bowl , would he be MVP?
I was at that game. While practicing before the game, he actually missed kicking into the practice net, the ball flew down the sideline, and hit a member of the Packer band right in the head.
Amazing
“Alright we need more percussion from the back please”
**THUMP**
Oh man, too bad we will never have video of that
@Electrolux219 Year later, I'm very glad I revisited this video and read this. Roaring laughter, and I thank you!
You weren't there stop looking at NFL films tape and claim you were at game
So this guy won offensive rookie of the year as a kicker?
Evan Desmond a kicker won mvp of the league in the NFL .
Defensive players were allowed to try and murder receivers back then. Points were hard to come by.
You could nail a receiver at any point on the field it didn’t matter, there was no pass interferences
@@bryce975 Mark Moseley, strike shortened season, 1982...
Clayton Foreman for real? Thats insane
The lambeau leap wasn't invented until 1993 by LeRoy Bulter, but this would have been one hell of a way to start the leap
wilson gamma now knowing he was high on cocaine, I sort of wish he invented the Lambeau Leap
I thought it was Leroy Jenkins?
Nah, that was 2005 and it was done to make fun of people who didn't know the gimmick to a certain dungeon.
wilson gamma
That’s what I was screaming at my computer screen and was just about to comment when I saw yours.
I think the kicked tried to invent it but he knew there was no way he was making it, once he got up closer to the wall.
Chester Marcol scored all 12 points for the Packers
And they say kickers aren't football players lol
Chester scored a point for every Rock of cocaine he had done that day. It goes to show...
Take enough cocaine, and you can do anything!
The video clip with Jim Irwin and Max McGee audio always gives me both great joy and great sadness…
He did a motivational speech at my school and talked about how he was lucky to be alive after an attempted suicide. It was not very motivational.
Also, do a video on Dock Ellis, the man pitched a no-hitter while on LSD
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He had a coke panic attack when he did the Lambeau Leap
The leap started with Leroy butler
this game was in 1980 the leap wasnt started untill 1993
Great cameo by Anthony Fantano! Kinda weird seeing him with his hair grown, tho.
He still hasn't given me back my Game Boy Color
Outrageous that Chester Marcol got a 3/10
he got a not good
Love this
The man doesn't even know football how tf is it a good cameo
When he said the kicker was on cocaine, that almost killed me.
I was 10 years old at the time and I was at a Brewers game at the old County Stadium. They played the replay of it on the jumbotron and the place went nuts.
Wow, you said JumboTron. I miss the old County Stadium and Bernie's Barrel. Love from 414 friend
In 86 I was 12 and I remember how terrible the Packers were at the time.
David Zabel I was there too. 8 years old at the time. That scoreboard was the worst state of the art scoreboard. The board used a computer system to control tens of thousands of low-wattage light bulbs. Based on the power supplied to each bulb by a massive computer system, the board could show graphics, text, and moving video images.. However, unlike the diamond vision boards being installed in every other stadium at the time that actually produced a recognizable picture, the Omega scoreboard was impossible to see on angles especially if you were sitting in the bleachers . So my memory of the kick was seeing some abstract of a football play being shown and really having to listen to the play by play to fill in the blanks. As much as I hated that scoreboard from it's inception, by the final seasons of it's life I gained an appreciation for the constant humming like the bug zapper almost every Wisconsin family had in it's backyard, minus the sound of unlucky mosquitos meeting their demise. Anyway, I know I'm rambling but your comment reminded me of that big beast in right center field.
He was coked out of his gord which makes it even funnier
Dude was on cocaine that’s why he was so fast and made that reaction at the wall
They mention that
He was my rehab counselor...
Thanks for repeating what they said in the video...
Meh. He did some at half time. Should have long since worn off if it was in overtime.
Cocaine doesn’t make you faster it just gives you more energy… until you crash and sleep for 2 days
"Baseball needs coke." -Kofie Yeboah, 2019
Worked for the '82 Cardinals.
My dad got Marcol’s book for me from Marcol at an event in 2011/2012 and had it signed for me. He said he was a really nice guy.
Fun Fact: The kick was blocked by Vikings legend Alan Page who played for the Bears for his last 4 seasons from 1978-81.
He was also the first Polish player in the NFL (his first name is actually Czesław, not Chester), blazing the trail for Szaro, Maniecki and Janikowski
"Those are the glasses that they give Marines; that can be, like, run over by tanks, that are like 'portholes'". Best line of the episode imo 😂
"baseball needs coke" best line ever!
wizboi113 best “line” ever ;)
Guess you never heard of Daryll Strawberry having coke on him while he ran bases during games .
Speaking of the _Pretty Good_ episode about Lonnie Smith...
("Mr. Jon says coke's great!")
Fun discussion. Nice that they mentioned Marcol's descent and recovery.
As for the play itself... great football IQ and reactions by Marcol to sprint around left end before the Bears could react.
This was one of the more enjoyable back and forths between all of yall WHILE telling a story. I love yalls dialogue.
He looked like he was protecting the ball. He was keeping that.
Every Packer fan remembers that play. I've said it a million times already so one more won't hurt--Way to go Chester!!
The Lambeau Leaf wasn't a thing until 13 years later. The reason they do it in my opinion is to symbolically celebrate with the owners, the fans who have stock in the team.
I know so much Jon Bois that the kicker caught his kickoff return in the 222-0 nothing
The only "Double Doink" that was awesome.. Ball bounce off the Goalpost, hits a Cumberland player's helmet and kicker catches it for a TD...
SUGGESTION: in 2004, Atlanta Hawks Journeyman point guard Bob Sura, barely a starter, got two straight triple doubles. In an attempt to get what at that time was a very rare third straight triple double, he sprinted down the floor and purposely missed a layup to get his tenth rebound and securing a third straight triple double. Only Grant Hill, Magic Johnson, and Micheal Jordan had done this before. The NBA stepped in just hours later and stripped his triple double. Do an episode on this.
It's in the second bob emergency video
3:42 my brother was in the military and the glasses they had to wear in basic training were known as birth control goggles
As I prepared for the kick, I checked every variable again, all at once. The wind speed and direction, the distance, the opposing players, all in an instant. I made contact and looked up to follow the path of the ball, but all at once, as manna from heaven, the ball reappeared in my open arms. I knew at once what I had to do. In one fluid motion, I parted the opposing line like the Red Sea and made what felt like a 40-year journey to the end zone. I went from failure to savior, a hero in the annals of history, never to be known...until Will rediscovered me....in the annals of history.
I am high as hell and this is amazing. I would read a novel that you wrote this character into.
I read that he had been practicing this kick before the actual game. He knew he was going to score as long as he had an 8 ball in the locker room.
Oh hey that's ME!
😂
Kofie get back to work on the fumble dimension
You high-key look short in the video😂😂😂
No it's not.
ElTostado Ryan’s like 6’5 😭
Who the hell gives these videos a thumb down? They're friggin gold
Where in the hell do they get these stories??? Great job guys.
He literally hold the book into the camera.
Robert Schröder when
@@rynosportstalkproductions4535 5:29
It's called the internet.
This is not that obscure. I'm not a Pack fan but as a big football fan I knew about this for decades.
I remember this so well! One bright, shining moment during an era filled with misery. I'm so glad it came against the Bears!
Chester was high while attempting the game winning fg against the bears. I read his book about over coming addiction. Great read! He doesn't remember that play. He was out of his mind and he was cut weeks later cause of his irratic poor play.
3:30 When you've shrunk the kids and realize they're standing on top of the football.
The holder at my old school did that to win the city championship 😂
Cocaine?
@@FodderMoosie 😂
Did he do it like the Charlie Brown move and just yank it as the guy was kicking? 🙂
P.S. Shane Davis: 😂
I still have a whole trophy case full of cocaine-related awards I've won back at my parents' house.
@@michaelhaydenbell Weird term to refer to "house arrest ankle bracelets" with, but more power to you!
This guy deserves MVP more than anyone else
FYI the Leap wasn’t invented until LeRoy Butler some time in the 90s
December 26th 1993, that was the exactly date.
Some people still insist that Reggie White had a foot out of bounds when he made that lateral to Butler.
I remember watching that game on tv, and going nuts after Chester Marcol scored.
Elite Soulfly indeed. He completed a pass to himself against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 1992
Ok boomer
@@mikegrambow9392 I've been a Packers fan since 1978, when they went 8-7-1, after starting 6-2. Any questions? David Whitehurst was the QB
I lived next to Chester when I was younger, I bought my first shotgun off him. He was hilarious.
For real?
@@wce05308 Yeah, my dad and him were friends in AA. He was pretty nuts and had a super hard life. When I was super young it freaked me out that a ton of his teeth were missing and later I found out it was because he tried to kill himself by drinking battery acid. But after going to rehab and stuff he's super nice and you'd never know he'd had such a wild life.
@@psnmaker wow it's always the quiet nerdy looking ones isn't it. Great story mate 👍
@@psnmaker bro that's awesome!!
@@psnmaker Jesus, imagine picking that as your checkout method.
I realize the guys are just being funny with the lambeau leap but it made me kinda sad. When you score in football it’s a great moment and you have so much adrenaline it doesn’t matter
My thoughts exactly. If you somehow end up to be living such a charmed life that you've an opportunity to do a Lambeau Leap in an NFL game YOU DO IT!!! Plus, it made them sound REALLY soft "ewww, I might get a splish-splash of beer on me, or even worse I could chip a fingernail".
This guy beat the bears single handedly by scoring all his teams points *and* winning
3:32 when my little sister was 3 years old, we browsed through a toy store for some reason. She saw an adorable teddy bear, which she grabbed and we couldn't get her to release it, like this grown-up Packer. We could hardly see the bear. My mother bought the bear (we weren't rich). It was my sister's first plush toy, I think. This scene brought back that cherished memory.
As a lifelong Packers fan Born in 1971, I totally remember him! I forgot that play, though. WOW!
@2:56 The Lambeau Leap didnt exist until 1993 when Packers safety Leroy Butler scored after a fumble and jumped into the end zone, thus inventing it. Packers WR Robert Brooks popularized it and the rest is history.
"I would not have survived the 80s." XD funniest thing i've heard all day
I almost didn't.
I'm seeing this way late but Will has it spot on with those being boot "portholes". Was he a Marine?
The first Lambeau Leap was done by LeRoy Butler in 1993. FYI
"Baseball needs coke." The 1982 Cardinals would agree.
The pic of the batter chewing his face off....pure GOLD!!!
High AF
I remember this vividly, like it was yesterday. I was a ten year old boy at the time watching it on television at a neighbor's house. A few of us neighbor kids were huddled in the living room at the time watching. When he ran it in for the TD the room exploded, popcorn flying all over heck.
Another kind of Kick Six: Toronto Montreal CFL game a few years back. Canadian football has the single point and the last play of the game with a tie score featured a FG attempt, two drop kicks, a fumble and a touchdown.
How does a kicker get injured lmao. Gotta love the 70's.
Alp Pergel it still happens now
He kicks a almost touchdown to himself and gets railed
Nice touch with the Good Enough shirt.
Y’all are getting real good, funny!
That guy Bois is real good, too.
Anyway, mighty fine piece, thanks.
I remember that game very well. A very sweet victory against our most hated rival, the Chicago Bears. I also remember our most hated rival, the Chicago Bears, getting some sweet revenge themselves for that first game of the season by stomping the Packers during the last game of the season, 61-7. Ouch!!
I watched this on TV when it happened. I can remember the TV announcer call...
"Chester Marcol!!!!....Chester Marcol!!!!!!!....Chester Marcol!!!!"
as he's running up the sideline
"He's just out here kicking touchdowns" -Jon Bois
I love how I thought you guys weren't gonna mention the coke and I was mid-comment when I started to say you forgot this point. But I love how he scored the game winner and then was released shortly after 😂😂😂😂
The black rimmed military glasses you’re referring are called RPG’S (regulation prescription glasses but we called them rape prevention glasses).
Reminds me of that time Nick Folk kicked a TD against the Bills.
as a bills fan thats still hilarious
Real question is what was it like awkwardly sitting there reforming the exact same play for the extra point? 😂
Finally I'm early! I know exactly what to say!
REWIND THE IMMACULATE RECEPTION FFS
fyukfy YESSSSSS
fyukfy shut up fyu James Washington is good hahahahaha hah and ur a bad member of sports heaven
2:31 It's OK Ryan, that's how I got my first-ever rebound in 5th grade. (and when I say "first-ever", I mean that I went my entire second and third-grade seasons of intramural basketball without any rebounds (didn't play in 4th))
BTW. There WAS no Lambeau Leap back in 1980. Leroy Butler invented the Leap in 1993 after running back a fumble recovery for a TD, against Oakland. Reggie White lateraled to him en route.
Since that was a return, if you look at the box score, there actually isn't a single touch down listed the entire game. Also he scored the Packers 6 on a 41 and a 46 yard field goal both in the 2nd quarter. He and the Bears Bob Thomas who had a 42 yarder in the 1st and a 34 yarder in the 3rd, look like they were the only ones playing.
It is listed as a "blocked FG return" but ti's still listed as a TD. Thanks for posting that, though, because that scoring does surprise me. I would have thought it would be listed as a rushing TD since the kick never went beyond the line of scrimmage. What if he picked it up thrown it for a TD? Would that not have been a passing TD?
@@Namath1000 I'm not entirely sure. I think the origin of the play is why it's called a return instead of what basically became a rushing touchdown. I would think that had he passed it, the scoring would be different as he wasn't running a return. I'm sure someone out there knows, but it would make sense to me if it was a passing TD that it would be different.
Our high school kicker did this on a PAT this year😂 the student section went nuts
Love those illustrations and lost it at the Lambeau Leap. The blood....Laughed My Ass TOTALLY Off.
Wow, what an INSPIRING story!
I may be misremembering this, but I seem to recall a college (FSU?) kicker scoring a TD about 30 years ago by catching his own kickoff and cruising into the end zone. Can you confirm or refute? Thanks!
"We had a good thing going, come on Rodge" 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Living the content. Laughed my ass off at the animations
The animation for Ryan's failed Lambeau Leap is amazing hahah
Love these vids, keep it up. One of my favorite channels on YT
If Texas shirt guy and red denim shirt guy had a kid together, it's this kicker 😂😂😂 athletically accurate
He just out here kicking touchdowns😂 wtf
The Lambeau leap wasn't a thing until 1993. Really dumb to spend so much time on that.
I agree. They act like the lambeau leap was invented in 1919 and every packer throughout history who scored a touchdown was expected to do it. Lol.
"he cowered"
I can't be the only one who pictured him sticking his chin out in anger like Bill Cowher.
Don't stick your chin out in anger
I heard you say
He was also on COPIOUS amounts of cocaine during this play lmaooo
He is just out here kicking touchdown and he was wearing glasses to signify that time had passed
I'm not unconvinced that that was actually Rick Moranis.
That "Good Enough" tee Kofie has, though? Flames.
Need more vids with this trio
Soon after the TD, CBS Sports announcer Lindsey Nelson says, "...along with Sonny Jurgensen, so long from Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Now stay tuned for the U.S. Open tennis championship, next, from New York."
This happened on September 7, 1980. Thus, the telecast would have then gone to John McEnroe's classic five-set victory over Bjorn Borg. I wonder how many tennis fans were tuning in, only to unknowingly and unwittingly catch one of the strangest plays in NFL history. And little did they know they were about to witness one of the greatest matches in tennis history.
Please. Next April Fools Day give us a Weird Rules on Air Bud
This guy stands alongside Doc Ellis as a legend.
Yep! Doc Ellis did throw no hitter while he was high. He remembered parts of it later, it's freaking hilarious to hear him tell it.
One time he struck out of batter and he said to himself "I just scored a touchdown" that is one high dude.
I can’t tell if this story is super funny and awesome, or pathetic and sad lmao
Depends on what side you are on, if you are a Bear fan, it's pathetic and sad but if you are a Packers fan like me, it's funny and amazing all in one.
It doesn't have to be just one or the other, that's the beauty of it.
I met this guy before he's a pretty nice dude, I don't think he does coke anymore.
Nick Folk walked so Chester could run
The Lambeau Leap doesn't even exist yet lol.
Ryan and Will are STILL trapped in the Holy Roller! When are you going to do something?
The only way I can envision it is if you will just play the damn highlight reel. That’s what we all came for.
I remember Chester Marcol, but I never heard of this. Will: wear a shirt that actually fits, dude.
I love how this turned into a giant tangent on coke lmao
Shoutout to Kofie's excellent excellent Good Enough shirt.
Yes please more weird stuff! I liked this video and would watch these as they are uploaded.
Chester was one of my councilors in rehab at The Phoenix House in Calumet MI