Boom Goes the Dynamite!

Rahim Moore

By Ryan Frisco

This section is devoted each week to an embarrassing performance by a professional athlete.

This is our first week of totally calling a professional athlete out on a performance that will go down in infamy.  And it just so happens that our first candidate has no competition in the matter.  Unless you lived under a rock this weekend, you surely know who I am referring to; none other than Denver Broncos Safety, Rahim Moore.

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The Denver Broncos were well on their way to a Super Bowl Championship.  Coming into the playoffs with an 11-game winning streak, the Broncos were easily the hottest team in the NFL and favorites to go all the way. Nothing could stand in their way.  Not Champ Bailey being burned twice by Torrey Smith for touchdowns.  Not a tipped Peyton Manning throw being intercepted and returned for a touchdown.  Even after all this, Denver still had the win in the bag.  Just make sure Baltimore can't go 70 yards in 30 seconds with no timeouts.  That is all we ask of the Denver defense.

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But no, that can't be done.  Check this out: Raheem Morris Let's Jacoby Jones BEHIND him for TD!

The unthinkable happened.  This is arguably the worst defensive football play of all time.  Seriously!  Everybody knows that as a safety at this point in the game, your only job is to not let anyone behind you.  You are playing a deep prevent.  I would go so far as to say any average Joe taken off the street could be thrown into that position and get the job done.

The bad part is letting him behind him.  At that point check out the video; Jones has to slow up because the throw is behind him.  At that point at least make the tackle to keep him out of the endzone!

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I'm sorry Rahim for putting you here.  I know it was a mental mistake.  We all make them.  Yours was just of drastic proportion.  Yours led to the ending of a storybook season.  We forgive you for it, but you have to live with it.  This is going to be one rough off season for Rahim with that in the back of his mind.

So Rahim Moore is the first victim of dynamite.  We hope he learns from this mistake and does not grace the pages of this section again.  But we're always looking for a great goof to entertain the viewing population.