Andrew Luck scores incredible TD after recovering Donald Brown's fumble

Andrew Luck made the play of the game in the Colts' win over the Chiefs. (Michael Conroy/AP) When NBC announcers Dan Hicks and Mike Mayock pointed out in the

Doug Farrar | Jan 4, 2014

Andrew Luck scores incredible TD after recovering Donald Brown's fumble /

Andrew Luck made the play of the game in the Colts' win over the Chiefs. (Michael Conroy/AP)

When NBC announcers Dan Hicks and Mike Mayock pointed out in the second half of the wild-card playoff game between the Indianapolis Colts and Kansas City Chiefs that Colts running back Donald Brown had never lost a fumble in his NFL career ... well, you knew that the time-honored announcer jinx was right around the corner. Brown had actually fumbled once in his rookie year after the Colts selected him in the first round out of Connecticut in 2009, but another one seemed inevitable.

And so it happened with 10:45 left in the fourth quarter, when quarterback Andrew Luck handed Brown the ball from the Kansas City 2-yard line, and Brown coughed it up after Chiefs safety Eric Berry tackled him with perfect form.

Luck, however, had other ideas. He somehow grabbed the errant pigskin and had the presence of mind to get in position to score, which he did by reaching the ball over the plane in an amazing performance.

That score and the resulting extra point put the Colts within three points at 41-38, en route to their 45-44 victory. Kansas City led 31-10 at the half.

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Published Jan 4, 2014

DOUG FARRAR

SI.com contributing NFL writer and Seattle resident Doug Farrar started writing about football locally in 2002, and became Football Outsiders' West Coast NFL guy in 2006. He was fascinated by FO's idea to combine Bill James with Dr. Z, and wrote for the site for six years. He wrote a game-tape column called "Cover-2" for a number of years, and contributed to six editions of "Pro Football Prospectus" and the "Football Outsiders Almanac." In 2009, Doug was invited to join Yahoo Sports' NFL team, and covered Senior Bowls, scouting combines, Super Bowls, and all sorts of other things for Yahoo Sports and the Shutdown Corner blog through June, 2013. Doug received the proverbial offer he couldn't refuse from SI.com in 2013, and that was that. Doug has also written for the Seattle Times, the Washington Post, the New York Sun, FOX Sports, ESPN.com, and ESPN The Magazine. He also makes regular appearances on several local and national radio shows, and has hosted several podcasts over the years. He counts Dan Jenkins, Thomas Boswell, Frank Deford, Ralph Wiley, Peter King, and Bill Simmons as the writers who made him want to do this for a living. In his rare off-time, Doug can be found reading, hiking, working out, searching for new Hendrix, Who, and MC5 bootlegs, and wondering if the Mariners will ever be good again.