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Atwater’s hit on Okoye is just the most obvious reason the safety should be in the Hall of Fame

Related Topics: Safety, Reason, September 1911, Flirting

September 17, 1990.

Monday Night Football.

Need I say more?

Of course not. Because when a single football play has its own celebrated anniversary, you already know it was a special play.

And if you’re any kind of Broncos fan - whether you watched it live or not - you know this play.

It’s the play that could be used in every textbook to demonstrate Newton’s first law of motion: Every object will remain at rest or in uniform motion in a straight line unless compelled to change its state by the action of an external force - aka, Steve Atwater.