Liquid Plummer

Full Story Here: "Football on the Chargers' 7-yard line. Denver driving, momentum sweeping it along, the Broncos having begun this advance with successive gains of 12, 11 and 39 yards against a defense that seemingly was tiring.

At that juncture, with 4:23 left in a wet and raw afternoon at Qualcomm Stadium, quarterback Jake Plummer had an option, assigned him by coach Mike Shanahan: to hand off or, given a certain defensive coverage, to arch a pass on a fade route toward wide receiver Rod Smith.

Plummer looked. He saw the defensive alignment for which he had been alerted, what he would call 'bump-man.' He chose to exercise his option. And as his actions would for him throughout the afternoon, this one turned out disastrously."