Epic Football Fail Revealed

I'm not real big on tooting my own horn about this kind of stuff, but you remember this Epic Football Fail video that sort of came from nowhere and went viral a couple weeks back? Well... I'm pretty confident I kind of started that. I might be wrong-- and surely someone else would have spotted it if I didn't, but after I posted it the thing ended up on Out Of Bounds, then Hot Clicks at SI, then it kind of went everywhere. And I could be completely wrong, but I swear to you, when I first saw it the number of views was like three hundred and change-- now it's at 2.3-million.

I say this for no particular reason, except that it's kind of cool, and also because Prep Rally has done some research and seems to have figured out exactly where it came from.

"Thanks to help from a loyal reader and confirmation from a player involved in the play itself, Prep Rally has learned that the football blunder to end all football blunders was committed by a Nimitz (Texas) High School junior varsity running back during a September 2009 game against the JV squad of The Woodlands College Park (Texas)," they explain. "Most importantly, Prep Rally can confirm that the turnover and touchdown definitely happened just the way the play unfolded on video, as far fetched as that may seem.

"How did we solve this gossipberry.com mystery? (gossipberry.com is the site credited at the end of the 'Epic Football Fail' video.) One of the play's key protagonists came to us with details about the game in which it occurred."

It's a reasonably interesting tale. And the video is totally worth another look.

And... whoa, holy shit! I could have totally learned this myself over a week ago if I'd just looked at the comments on my original post, as someone wrote: "This is College Park H.S!!! in the Woodlands Texas, im #7!!! 2009 JV game against Nimitz H.S."