Great plays, and great radio calls of them, can spring up anywhere, and one case in point is what happened in the Canadian Football League’s East Final Sunday. The Hamilton Tiger-Cats stormed back to tie the game inside the final two minutes on a terrific catch from Luke Tasker, and the Ottawa Redblacks then put themselves in a 2-and-25 hole with an almost-picked-off pass and a holding penalty. Then, this happened:
ARE YOU KIDDING US!!!!????@Gelliman82 #TOUCHDOWN!!!#GCPlayoffs #CFL https://t.co/5vKkhnJtCn
— CFL (@CFL) November 22, 2015
That’s an amazing eventual game-winning pass from Henry Burris to Greg Ellingson, and it’s especially remarkable considering the high snap and the way Ellingson was covered. It’s a pretty good call from TSN’s Rod Black, too. However, it can’t hold a candle to the excitement from TSN 1200 (local Ottawa sports radio) play-by-play man A.J. Jakubec:
“GREG ELLINGSON! A MIRACLE! ON SECOND AND 25!” Unsurprisingly, as Jakubec noted on Twitter, his voice was gone after the game:
@ChelsiieWade Oh it was toast by the time I got to the concert!
— AJ Jakubec (@TheSuperAJ) November 23, 2015
Jakubec’s Twitter account has been flooded with congratulations, and he had a pretty good response to them:
Thank you for all of your messages about '2nd and 25'. Overwhelmed and humbled. Just happy for the city and its long suffering football fans
— AJ Jakubec (@TheSuperAJ) November 23, 2015
That’s a great call, and a great response. Given the significance for Ottawa, too (this is just the current franchise’s second season, and the city’s first Grey Cup trip since 1981), it’s one that’s going to resonate through the years.
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