Video of football’s worst trick play

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How do you camouflage a 24-0 deficit? By running the worst play in the history in the NFL.

During Monday’s loss to the New York Giants, the Washington Redskins decided to distract their fans from looking at the scoreboard by running a poorly conceived trick play on the final snap of the first half. Unfortunately, the Redskins could devote a season’s worth of practices to running this fake field goal and it still wouldn’t work.

Check out the video:

Hopefully, this isn’t the play that earns Redskins Coach Jim Zorn a pink slip at the end of the season.

-- Austin Knoblauch