This was the Play Of the Day (POD) for our Saturday pickup touch football games on November 2, 2007:

It rarely happens but when it works, it’s a beautiful thing to behold.

Omar was playing defense and settled into an open zone, started waving his hands and shouting as if he were an open receiver. The rare happened and the opposing quarterback threw the ball right into Omar’s gut. He caught the ball and cut to the left sideline, following an entourage of blockers who ensured he remained untouched on his way to the end zone.

This was the Play Of the Day (POD) for our Saturday pickup touch football games on October 20, 2007:

Andre gets Play of the Day for a long bomb catch with a defender in his
hip pocket and with two hands on the ball. Andre went up for the ball
simultaneously with his defender but with his vice-like grip, came down
with the ball and scampered the remaining ten yards for the score.

This was the Play Of the Day (POD) for our Saturday pickup touch football games on October 6, 2007:

Pete absolutely took over the game by nabbing back to back to back
interception returns for touchdowns to earn the appropriately named
ThreePete and win the Plays of the Day.

This was the Play Of the Day (POD) for our Saturday pickup touch football games on September 22, 2007:

Ahk was lined up against a receiver significantly taller than himself. Seeing the "mismatch," the quarterback eyed his tall receiver. The receiver ran a fly down the sideline past Ahk. No matter. Ahk turned his back to the quarterback, ran to the spot, turned back to find the ball, got up and swatted the ball away.

Again!, he urged. The quarterback and receiver complied, this time on a shorter route. But Ahk was there, climbed the ladder, and knocked the ball to the ground.

Surely three times is a charm, the quarterback must’ve been thinking because he went back to the well for a third time but little did he know, the well had been dry all along. Ahk was there a third time to knock the ball down.

And for that series of dominating plays, Ahk earned the Play(s) of the Day.

This was the Play Of the Day (POD) for our Saturday pickup touch football games on September 15, 2007:

Gillian capped off a huge drive that she dominated. Throughout the day, she caught
more passes than anyone out there and had a 4 or 5 catch
drive and then a 10 foot TD catch to finish it up and win the final
game of the day.

This was the Play Of the Day (POD) for our Thursday pickup touch football games on September 13, 2007:

Boon‘s team was facing fourth and goal from just beyond the 50 yard
line and they needed a score. His quarterback waited for his receivers
to get to the end zone, bought some more time with a fake, and heaved
the ball downfield. Boon went up in a crowd of three and grabbed the
ball at the same time as a defender. Both the defender and Boon had
possession as they fell to the ground but with a steely grip, Boon
ripped the ball away to gain sole possession of the rock and a needed
touchdown for his team.

This was the Play Of the Day (POD) for our Saturday pickup touch football games on September 8, 2007:

Ben was a machine last week, making catches on stop routes, crossing routes, post routes, and deep fly routes. 

It was on one of those fly routes that he made the Play of the Day. With a defender running stride for stride with him all the way down the field, the quarterback threw to Ben even though he looked to be absolutely covered. But Ben didn’t give anything away as he approached the end zone and the ball. It was only at the last second that he turned to the ball, brought up his hands, and plucked it from the air, giving his defender no hint that the ball was near.

This was the Play Of the Day (POD) for our Thursday pickup touch football games on September 6, 2007:

One reason Ned can make amazing plays is his vast wingspan. He’s known as The Hand because he puts that wingspan to such good use by getting The Hand consistently on the ball, be it offensively or defensively.

Ned put The Hand to superb use last Thursday when he was running a drag route. His quarterback led him the wrong way by throwing a horrible pass way behind Ned as he was crossing the field. The ball was heading directly to the waiting arms of a defender for an easy pick. You could see his eyes widen and his thoughts turn upfield as the ball spiraled toward him.

But the anticipation of a sure interception return for a score was rudely interrupted as Ned reached wwwwwaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyy back behind him with The Hand and, impossibly, scooped the ball from the air and continued upfield for a good gain but a superb save.

This was the Play Of the Day (POD) for our Saturday pickup touch football games on September 1, 2007:

Kellen gets the award for Saturday not so much for a single play as for his body of work. We’ll name him the Player Of the Day.

He had, like, 36 interceptions. Whenever the ball changed hands it was almost certainly Kellen’s hands who held the ball when the play was over.

He was en fuego!

This was the Play Of the Day (POD) for our Thursday pickup touch football games on August 30, 2007:

Johnny was ab-so-LUTE-ly EVERYwhere last Thursday. He blocked passes. He ran ball carriers down from behind. He sacked quarterbacks. He caught long bomb touchdown passes. And he intercepted passes, at least one of which he returned for a touchdown.

Johnny was playing cornerback and defending the left flat as Ned ran a drag route in front of him. The quarterback led Ned way too far but at least it was out of the reach of any defenders.

Or was it?

Of course it wasn’t. Not with Johnny on the field. He quickly covered an insane amount of ground to catch up to the ball, just nab it with his left hand, pull it in, and run in for the score.