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Long live the tush push! The controversial play's top moments

BILL SNYDER DOESN'T understand what all the fuss is about.

The legendary Kansas State coach, 85 years old and retired from coaching, can't remember exactly what the Wildcats called the play because it was just an add-on to a sneak. He didn't -- and still doesn't -- think it was very innovative or creative.

"It was just a natural thing to do," he told ESPN of the play that would become known as the "tush push" and eventually inspire a raging NFL-wide debate. "We need to create a way in which we could take the shortest distance to get the short distance we needed to go and not get held up, because everybody put all the people over there, so we wanted to compete against no matter how many people you put there.