What We Talk About When We Talk About The Butt Punt

Thomas Morstead will be subjected to images of the worst moment of his professional life for decades to come, but at least he's not alone

By Roger Cormier

There were two different spellings of the word 'redemption' this past Sunday in the NFL. One way was O-R-L-O-V-S-K-Y. You might know Dan Orlovsky as one of the talking heads on NFL Live and other ESPN programming. You most definitely know him as The Guy Who Ran Out of Bounds for a Safety and Didn't Realize It For a Long Two Seconds.

13 years later, on an otherwise innocent Denver evening, San Francisco 49ers quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo did the same damn thing.