Jim Marshall's accomplishments as a defensive player: 282 consecutive games over a 20 year career. 130.5 Quarterback sacks 2XPro Bowls. Played hurt never missed a game. He is definitely a Hall of Fame!
@@vincesmith2499Yes. But who is most likely to get hurt a Defensive player or A RB that takes a beating evertime it touches the ball??? We're talking about Jim Brown the GOAT.
I like how this video summed up that day properly. The 49er broadcaster said that Marshall was the hero that day, as the winning touchdown was scored on a fumble return that he had caused. As bad as running the wrong way for 66 yards and scoring for the other team is, it could have been worse. After crossing the goal line, he flung the ball out of play in jubilee, but had he dropped it in the end zone and a 49er recovered it, it would have been a TD. Assuming the extra point, that's a 5 point swing, and the Vikings won the game by 5 points.
As Tarkenton said later, it was a good thing he threw it away, as opposed to spiking it, which could have given the 49ers a chance to recover in the end zone for a TD. Which could have been the winning points, as the Vikings only won by 5 points.
I'm not sure what NFL rules were at the time (or now, for that matter) but under college rules today, THAT was what got him the safety. It would have been a foul on Team B (defense) for an illegal forward pass, and since it was from the end zone, you'd have a safety. However, not so fast. The offense would almost certainly take the ball at the dead ball spot (wherever it went out of bounds). Unless it was late in the game and the 2 points made the difference (or 1 or 2 other scenarios), taking the ball instead of the safety would have been the smart move. Incidentally, I did something similar in basketball at the age of 6 or 7. I got excited when I got the rebound of a free throw and took off the other way towards the other team's goal. The backcourt violation stopped me from scoring! Oh, well.
It's so nice to see everyone be so supportive of Jim in the comments. It must feel great knowing that people won't just remember you for your one big mistake but instead for all the successes you've had.
That's where 2k got it from. My friend always picked Montana and would run back into his endzone, the broadcaster would scream "HE'S GOING THE WRONG WAY!... TOUCHDOWN!" Nobody could ever play a second down on him because he scored every game by running into his own endzone and passing the ball to Randy Moss lmfao
Alan Page's words at the end are interesting, talking about the kind of players that the Hall of Fame was built for. Page, who is enshrined there, also helped build it in his younger days.
When I was in Little League, I always played second base. We were in the Championship game every damn year, but never won it. The last champ game I played, we played at the new field. It was setup for night games an everything. It was about four innings in, and I flubbed a ground ball, badly. The other team filled the bases, with two outs. It should have been an easy out to end the inning. I was so dejected. I let my team mates down. Then the very next batter, the very next pitch, lined one right over my head. I didn't have time to think, but I leapt up three feet in the air, shot my mitt up and snatched that puppy down for the out. Ended the inning. The fans went nuts. I was immediately vindicated. I feel for Jim Marshall. One big mistake, but he ended up winging the game.
As a life long Vikings fan, I've learned that you're almost definitely right: if there is a way to lose, we find it. Every time. I like to think this is the only timeline where we DON'T lose that game :)
Maaaaaan, isn't that just like the media and most people that only focus on or remember you for the bad you do in life. This made all kinds of headlines off of a 2pt debacle. 19,20 yr career,played every game and possibly never missed a practice,BIG,STRONG,DURABLE,ROUGH & RUGGED on and off the field, coach loves it when he's hurt and has a temperature of 103 because he plays his BEST. Let's not 4get inspite of his misfortune he bounced back and made a BIG TIME play to contribute to a victory in the same game...Come ON NOOOOW! They DON'T make many like that anymore. HOF'ER IN MY BOOK in this life and the next💪🏿🔥👍🏿✊🏿🙏🏿🤝🏿💯👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
See now that's interesting, I never knew that it was him that stripped the ball from the QB to win the game. And still we gravitate to this clip. But how can you not, each time I see it I hope he'll figure it out, but he never does. I'm screaming, hey, HEY, YRTWW!
It is a dirty shame this guy is remembered for this, he was a helluva player. Kind of like Bill Buckner, helluva player and just remembered for one ghastly blunder. Although Buckner's mistake was far more consequential.
Reminds me of one Anaheim Ducks hockey game I watched years ago, Scott Niedermayer one of the smoothest-skating defenseman in NHL history accidentally stepping on the puck and eating sh*t before an opposing forward took it in for a breakaway goal. Not quite as bad as this though O.o
Actually Eller scored the fumble/TD to take a 10 point lead (not to win the game like the video says) It was BEFORE Marshall's safety which made it 27-19 Minn. A bit later SF scored a FG to make it a 27-22 Minn win. The game was not in doubt when Marshall scored the safety. The video makes it look like Eller bailed them out. Nope! They are wrong.
Marshall always maintained that he ran the wrong way because he lost his bearings. If this happened on mid filed, I could buy it. but shouldn't it have occurred to him that, given that they were in 49er territory, it should been a short run rather than a long run to the goal?
@@MelvinZoopers But after he got the ball and ran for about 10 yards, it should have occurred to him that "Wait a minute. We were near the 49er goal line. I'm running toward ours." Say what you want, but that just wasn't smart play.on his part.
@@AlexAcostaArt He threw the ba after crossing the wrong goa ine. It appeared that it went out in the fied of pay. Shoudn't that be Minn ba at the spot?
@@MelvinZoopers 😂 I'm sorry, but that might have been the funniest exchange I've ever seen in my entire life (it was even funnier before I remembered that Alan Page also played defense for the Vikes. I thought you just thought he was the Chief Justice for literally no reason whatsoever hahahaha) They're being ridiculous anyway; making a the wrong call on a split-second decision doesn't somehow mean someone is unintelligent at all, it just means they're a human being. Heck, I've already made 3 mistakes today and I've only been awake for a few hours! It happens. If anything, I think the way he handled it says significantly more about him than the mistake ever will.
Bill Kilmer played at halfback much of 1964. He then didn't play at all in 1965, missed most of the season in 1963, and that was after John Brodie broke his arm when his car ended up wrapped around a light pole (best reason that the 2-12 49ers had their overall worst season up until that time) and was in a handful of games for the 49ers in 1966. Then he was taken by the New Orleans Saints in the expansion draft.
Jim Marshall's accomplishments as a defensive player: 282 consecutive games over a 20 year career. 130.5 Quarterback sacks 2XPro Bowls. Played hurt never missed a game. He is definitely a Hall of Fame!
You Said it!
Marshall didn't just play 282 consecutive games. He played EVERY game during his twenty year NFL career.
Think of it this way: when he retired, he had played in EVERY game in the Minnesota Vikings' history, regular season and playoffs. Crazy.
So Did Jim Brown! Never missed a game, ever
In A Much More Physical League
@@luisdavila5721 Brown only played nine years, though.
@@vincesmith2499Yes. But who is most likely to get hurt a Defensive player or A RB that takes a beating evertime it touches the ball??? We're talking about Jim Brown the GOAT.
Jim Marshall gave so much of himself that he even gave the opposing team points. What a guy !!
I like how this video summed up that day properly. The 49er broadcaster said that Marshall was the hero that day, as the winning touchdown was scored on a fumble return that he had caused. As bad as running the wrong way for 66 yards and scoring for the other team is, it could have been worse. After crossing the goal line, he flung the ball out of play in jubilee, but had he dropped it in the end zone and a 49er recovered it, it would have been a TD. Assuming the extra point, that's a 5 point swing, and the Vikings won the game by 5 points.
Jim Marshall is not in the Hall of Fame. But he should be!!!!
The way he tosses the ball out of bounds to ensure the safety 💀
As Tarkenton said later, it was a good thing he threw it away, as opposed to spiking it, which could have given the 49ers a chance to recover in the end zone for a TD. Which could have been the winning points, as the Vikings only won by 5 points.
I'm not sure what NFL rules were at the time (or now, for that matter) but under college rules today, THAT was what got him the safety. It would have been a foul on Team B (defense) for an illegal forward pass, and since it was from the end zone, you'd have a safety. However, not so fast. The offense would almost certainly take the ball at the dead ball spot (wherever it went out of bounds). Unless it was late in the game and the 2 points made the difference (or 1 or 2 other scenarios), taking the ball instead of the safety would have been the smart move. Incidentally, I did something similar in basketball at the age of 6 or 7. I got excited when I got the rebound of a free throw and took off the other way towards the other team's goal. The backcourt violation stopped me from scoring! Oh, well.
my dad remebers the play when it happened he was really happy when i showed him this :)
Awesome!
It's so nice to see everyone be so supportive of Jim in the comments. It must feel great knowing that people won't just remember you for your one big mistake but instead for all the successes you've had.
That's where 2k got it from. My friend always picked Montana and would run back into his endzone, the broadcaster would scream "HE'S GOING THE WRONG WAY!... TOUCHDOWN!" Nobody could ever play a second down on him because he scored every game by running into his own endzone and passing the ball to Randy Moss lmfao
The fact that the 49ners player shook his hand after the play was hilarious.
Today's player needs to watch this video and embrace it.
Alan Page's words at the end are interesting, talking about the kind of players that the Hall of Fame was built for. Page, who is enshrined there, also helped build it in his younger days.
-66 yard fumble return
When I was in Little League, I always played second base. We were in the Championship game every damn year, but never won it. The last champ game I played, we played at the new field. It was setup for night games an everything. It was about four innings in, and I flubbed a ground ball, badly. The other team filled the bases, with two outs. It should have been an easy out to end the inning. I was so dejected. I let my team mates down.
Then the very next batter, the very next pitch, lined one right over my head. I didn't have time to think, but I leapt up three feet in the air, shot my mitt up and snatched that puppy down for the out. Ended the inning. The fans went nuts. I was immediately vindicated. I feel for Jim Marshall. One big mistake, but he ended up winging the game.
Fun fact: the Vikings still won this game
Yes, 27-22 Jim Marshall cause a fumble that Carl Eller scored a touchdown that won the game
Jim Marshall's wife: Jim dear, you're going the WRONG WAY!!🤣🤣🤣🤣
theres a chance that running the wrong way triggered a series of events that wouldn't have lead to them winning the game if he hadn't ran backward
As a life long Vikings fan, I've learned that you're almost definitely right: if there is a way to lose, we find it. Every time.
I like to think this is the only timeline where we DON'T lose that game :)
We all make stupid mistakes, I'm glad we are not being broadcasted nationwide when it happens.
Maaaaaan, isn't that just like the media and most people that only focus on or remember you for the bad you do in life. This made all kinds of headlines off of a 2pt debacle. 19,20 yr career,played every game and possibly never missed a practice,BIG,STRONG,DURABLE,ROUGH & RUGGED on and off the field, coach loves it when he's hurt and has a temperature of 103 because he plays his BEST. Let's not 4get inspite of his misfortune he bounced back and made a BIG TIME play to contribute to a victory in the same game...Come ON NOOOOW! They DON'T make many like that anymore. HOF'ER IN MY BOOK in this life and the next💪🏿🔥👍🏿✊🏿🙏🏿🤝🏿💯👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
right? Dude is a legend. If I played for as long as he did, I know for a _fact_ i would have made many more [much larger] mistakes 😂
See now that's interesting, I never knew that it was him that stripped the ball from the QB to win the game. And still we gravitate to this clip. But how can you not, each time I see it I hope he'll figure it out, but he never does. I'm screaming, hey, HEY, YRTWW!
That's the way of the world my brother led by the media. Focus on the bad not the good. Makes better ratings. He's A+ 4ever in my book!!!
Wow..God bless him we all make mistakes...I wish I went another way but ran the wrong way in life
then turn around already, jeez ;)
One bad play doesn't define a hall of fame 20 year career. One of the best of all time.
Are you Jackobi Myers?
@@dondajulah4168 Yeah bruh you found me out. 😆
Mistakes happen. I've done my share. I'm sure he's still teased about this.
It is a dirty shame this guy is remembered for this, he was a helluva player. Kind of like Bill Buckner, helluva player and just remembered for one ghastly blunder. Although Buckner's mistake was far more consequential.
Even the official was pointing in the correct direction
🤣
Congrats. The pats just topped this
Glad Jim Marshall still alive to see his blooper surpassed.
When you run down the field and the other team does not pursue you should be a sign you are going the wring way.
They really spelled Thank's with an apostrophe on that fucking huge sign at 4:55
that's (apostrophe included) almost as funny as the play.
Reminds me of one Anaheim Ducks hockey game I watched years ago, Scott Niedermayer one of the smoothest-skating defenseman in NHL history accidentally stepping on the puck and eating sh*t before an opposing forward took it in for a breakaway goal. Not quite as bad as this though O.o
Actually Eller scored the fumble/TD to take a 10 point lead (not to win the game like the video says) It was BEFORE Marshall's safety which made it 27-19 Minn. A bit later SF scored a FG to make it a 27-22 Minn win. The game was not in doubt when Marshall scored the safety. The video makes it look like Eller bailed them out. Nope! They are wrong.
Marshall always maintained that he ran the wrong way because he lost his bearings. If this happened on mid filed, I could buy it. but shouldn't it have occurred to him that, given that they were in 49er territory, it should been a short run rather than a long run to the goal?
Are you saying he intentionally did this? He was a mole for SF? I doubt it. It's possible he showed up for the game drunk, but doubt that too.
@@roachtoasties No, what I'm saying is that it wasn't confusion as he maintained. Just sheer stupidity.
He lost his bearings, I can buy that.
@@MelvinZoopers But after he got the ball and ran for about 10 yards, it should have occurred to him that "Wait a minute. We were near the 49er goal line. I'm running toward ours." Say what you want, but that just wasn't smart play.on his part.
@@lwmson huh no shit it wasn't a smart play lmao did you just figure that out? There's a reason why it's featured on the video showing bad plays.
1:20 LMFAOOOOOO 😂😂😂
Such a shame that one play has kept Jim Marshall out of the Hall of Fame
Definitely deserves to be in there!
That's not what's keeping him out.
Can’t believe he’s not in the hof
Deserves to be!
Wtf.. he's not? 20 years in the league as a DE never missing a game. Wow
@@jamardones9678 Hopefully someday soon.
All I can say is, 😂😂😂😂😂
1### fabulous viking.😅😅😊😊😅😅😊❤
If a safety, then it seems it should have been scored for SF. Awesome athlete, though, in spite of this snafu!
Touch back today
The 49ers did get the points.
SF got two points for his "score."
It was a safety for the 49ers.
How did he survive the chute not opening while skydiving?
Listen if he could survive going the wrong way in football, he certainly could survive a parachute not opening.
or the gunshot to the stomach
What's lost in all this is that the Vikings won this game 27-22
😂
When did he get into the HOF? I remember he was always used as an example of someone who should be, but was not voted in. At least, last I heard.
You're right. I always thought he was.
Should be in Canton Shame on The NFL
Could it have been the purple 🟣💜 pants? the next year 1965 they were gone
Generational curse always happens to hamites
Why is that a safety? shouldn't it be Minn possession where it was ob?
He ran the wrong way. But when he crossed the goal line, he thought he scored a TD, but it was really a safety for SF.
@@AlexAcostaArt He threw the ba after crossing the wrong goa ine. It appeared that it went out in the fied of pay. Shoudn't that be Minn ba at the spot?
@@dolphinsneu No, because if you throw the ball out of the back of your own end zone, it’s a safety.
@@taydaking1089 He didn't though.
@@dolphinsneu 2:15
Why can’t Minnesota Vikings eat cereal? Because anytime they get close to a bowl they choke
How embarrassing
Drugs
What a physical specimen, just lacking intellect. They make the most loyal and best bodyguards and friend.
Lacking intellect...that's why he is the Cheif Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court.
@@MelvinZoopers i'm not seeing that anywhere my dude
@@jbsofinedirt3 Sorry, that's Alan Page.
"They"?
@@MelvinZoopers 😂 I'm sorry, but that might have been the funniest exchange I've ever seen in my entire life (it was even funnier before I remembered that Alan Page also played defense for the Vikes. I thought you just thought he was the Chief Justice for literally no reason whatsoever hahahaha)
They're being ridiculous anyway; making a the wrong call on a split-second decision doesn't somehow mean someone is unintelligent at all, it just means they're a human being.
Heck, I've already made 3 mistakes today and I've only been awake for a few hours! It happens. If anything, I think the way he handled it says significantly more about him than the mistake ever will.
Bill Kilmer played at halfback much of 1964. He then didn't play at all in 1965, missed most of the season in 1963, and that was after John Brodie broke his arm when his car ended up wrapped around a light pole (best reason that the 2-12 49ers had their overall worst season up until that time) and was in a handful of games for the 49ers in 1966. Then he was taken by the New Orleans Saints in the expansion draft.