Top 10: Top 10 Plays, Number Four

This morning I was watching SportsCenter (yes, people do still watch this show) and caught the regular and popular feature, the Top 10 Plays of the Day. It's not an original idea, every sports columnist, show and blogger has their lists of greatness and power rankings. But not the Saloon COI. This got me thinking, the Top 10 Plays are always the same "types" of plays. Sure, once in a great while you may have a new record in the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest that gets on, or possibly a Nascar highlight, but for the most part you really aren't seeing anything that hasn't been done before. And so I bring to the Saloon COI a Top 10 list of my own. Editor's note: numbers 10-8 can be viewed over at Thunder Matt's Saloon here.

It only seems fitting that I bring out #4 of our list today, as last night's MNF game was loaded with them. That's right, the Number Four play on our list is Horribly Ugly Uniforms...no that's not right. #4 goes to the Kick Return for a Touchdown. Last night the special teams defense was horrible as a record tying 3 kicks were returned for touchdowns including a punt and kickoff return by Denver's Eddie Royal.

Of course the kick return is nothing new to Bears fans. In 2006, Hester set the record for most kicks returned for touchdowns in a season, helping lead the Bears to the Super Bowl in which he of course padded his stats with returning the opening kickoff for a touchdown, another first in NFL history. During that season he also returned a kick for a record-tying 108 yard return against the Giants (although this was off a missed field goal if you remember). He went on in 2007 to return 6 kicks again for touchdowns, tying his own record from the previous year. This year da Bears have another rookie sensation returning kickoffs in Johnny Knox, who has one kick return this season already.



Ginger's greatest #4: Of all Hester's great returns, the top pick has to go to the opening kickoff return in Super Bowl XLI. Although da Bears didn't win, this top play made all of us go bat-shit crazy, as I'm sure it did you as well.


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