The River City Relay

by Alfie Crow on Sep 29, 2011 2:50 PM EDT in Jacksonville Jaguars News

December 21, 2003 - Saints kicker John Carney misses the extra point to tie the game.

The New Orleans Saints haven't played in Jacksonville since the 2003 season. The last time the Saints came marching in to play the Jacksonville Jaguars, we got to experience a very memorable play. For Jaguars fans, it's a great memory. For Saints fans, it's groan worthy. It was a game the Jacksonville Jaguars won 20-19.

The River City Relay.

The Saints traveled to Jacksonville with a 7-7 to take on a team starting rookie Byron Leftwich and make a push for the playoffs as an NFC Wild Card team. The Jaguars built a 20-13 lead on the legs of then runningback Fred Taylor and 194 rushing yards. With 7 seconds left in the game and on their own 25-yard line, Saints quarterback Aaron Brooks called for the ball the be hiked. Brooks passed the ball to receiver Donte Stallworth midfield, who then broke Fernando Bryant's tackle then broke two more tackles. With the time on the clock expired, Stallworth pitched the ball to Michael Lewis at about the 35-yard line. Lewis took the ball up the field 10 more yards before then pitching it to Deuce McAllister.

McAllister quickly pitched the ball to Jerome Pathon at about the 25-yard line, who ran the ball and dove into the endzone after a key block down field was made by quarterback Aaron Brooks. There was a long review by the officials to make sure all of the pitches were indeed laterals and not any forward passes. The play upheld. The score was now 20-19 with John Carney lining up for the extra point to send the game into overtime.

Then it happened.

"NOOOO!!! He missed the extra point wide right! Oh my God, how could he do that?" exclaimed Saints play by play man Jim Henderson.

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I was just thinking about that game this morning

What an unbelievable finish.

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by JagsAlex87 on Sep 29, 2011 2:53 PM EDT reply actions

this was a joke lol.

by FgallosJAGS on Sep 29, 2011 3:08 PM EDT reply actions

Poor john

Mustve felt like crap for a while after that lol

by amujic32 on Sep 29, 2011 3:14 PM EDT via mobile reply actions

I've told this story several times

I was at the game and piss drunk drinking egg nog and brandy in the parking lot. Drank about 2 bottles in the lot.

I even managed to sneak my last bottle of egg nog into the stadium. After a week with the in laws I pretty much stayed drunk.. Anyway, last play, I’m like “it’s in the bag and so am I” and went to the bathroom. Listening at the urinal, I heard cheering and a sound of disbelief. So, I run out and just miss seeing the extra point shank.

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by Joe Fisher on Sep 29, 2011 3:15 PM EDT reply actions

Top 5 Jaguars home finish, for sure!

I just remember thinking, here we go, another OT loss….. Saw the kick from the side, it looked good to me, but the fans in the south end zone were going nuts! Then I remember thinking, wow, there’s a lot of Saints fans over there!

LOL!

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by Gabbert2Shorts on Sep 29, 2011 3:19 PM EDT reply actions

Stupid Carney

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by Grumps on Sep 29, 2011 3:20 PM EDT reply actions

that play

was insane

by P.G. on Sep 29, 2011 4:17 PM EDT reply actions

one of the widest swings of emotion I have ever felt

save your attitude i got one of my own

by jaxg8r on Sep 29, 2011 4:40 PM EDT reply actions

its hard to explain what that felt like...

its like getting the winning lotto ticket, checking the numbers over and over again, realizing you won, and then realizing that it was from last weeks drawing….

weirdest part, is that the saints made a commercial for that play (based in a supermarket) to help sell season tickets the next year. i don’t think they understood…

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by DrewBreesManCrush on Sep 29, 2011 5:42 PM EDT reply actions

Hahaha.. I thought I was the only one...

Actually I was checking my tickets in the Florida Times Onion…

I had all the numbers…I was in a sports bar drinking a beer and the paper was on the bar..

After I saw my numbers I went nuts..“woo hoo” “woo hoo!!” I won the F’ing Lottery…

Chuck, my buddy next to me grabs the paper and looks..and he said “Those are the Georgia Numbers” :-( Talk about Swings of emotion….I went from Overjoyed to the point of having a heart attack to Embarressed and Depressed…Sips beer and stares at the TV….

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by SALTWATERJAG on Sep 29, 2011 7:58 PM EDT up reply actions

Probably my worst memory as a Saints fan

Just from going from such an extreme high to an extreme low so quickly. We usually have time to prepare for such things.

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by AcquiredPanic on Sep 29, 2011 6:34 PM EDT reply actions

worst memory as a Saints fan?

Wow. I figured pretty much from when you got the franchise to about 1986 would have constituted the worst memory.

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by Joe Fisher on Sep 29, 2011 9:19 PM EDT up reply actions

Was Morten a Saint?

Help an old man with a bad memory. Wasn’t Morten Anderson with the Saints when he slipped and missed to send us to the playoffs? I thought till the next day Clyde Simmons had blocked it.

by My2cents on Sep 30, 2011 10:01 AM EDT reply actions