Editing Lateral pass (section)

===Multiple lateral passes===

In a college football game in 1982, the famous [[walk-off touchdown]] simply called [[The Play (American football)|The Play]] happened with five backward passes. In the [[Big Game (American football)|Big Game]] between [[Stanford Cardinal football|Stanford]] and [[California Golden Bears football|California]], with four seconds left and trailing by one point, Cal ran the [[Kickoff (American football)|kickoff]] all the way for the walk-off touchdown using five backward passes, eventually running through the [[Stanford Band]], who had already taken the field (believing the game was over after Stanford players appeared to have tackled a Cal ball-carrier). The game remains controversial because of Stanford's contention that the Cal player's knee was down before he passed the ball during the third lateral and that the fifth lateral was an illegal [[forward pass]].

In an NFL game in 2003, there was a well known play called the [[River City Relay]] with three lateral passes. The game was between the [[New Orleans Saints]] and the [[Jacksonville Jaguars]]. The game was held on December 21, 2003. With time running out, the Saints threw backward passes and brought the ball down the length of the field for a [[touchdown]]. However, [[placekicker|kicker]] [[John Carney (American football)|John Carney]] missed the [[extra point]], which would have tied the game, so the Saints lost by one point, 20–19.
    
In a [[Division III (NCAA)|Division III]] college football in 2007 there was a walk-off touchdown play with 15 lateral passes. [[Trinity University (Texas)|Trinity University]] was trailing by two points with two seconds left in a game against conference rival [[Millsaps College]]. Starting from their own 39-yard line, Trinity called a play for a short pass across the middle. The receiver pitched the ball backward, with a sequence of additional backward passes as players were in danger of being tackled. The "[[2007 Trinity vs. Millsaps football game|Mississippi Miracle]]" ultimately included 15 backward passes as it covered 61 yards for the walk-off touchdown. The game was on October 27, 2007.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/stories/MYSA102707.EN.FBCtrinity.millsaps.1b21f550e.html |title=Football: Trinity wins on miracle play |author=Briggs, Jerry |work=[[San Antonio Express-News]] |date=October 27, 2007 |access-date=2007-10-28 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071030062347/http://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/stories/MYSA102707.EN.FBCtrinity.millsaps.1b21f550e.html |archive-date=October 30, 2007 }}</ref>

In a college football game in 2015, there was a walk-off touchdown with eight lateral passes. The [[Miami Hurricanes football|Miami Hurricanes]] college football team threw eight lateral passes over the course of 45 seconds to score a touchdown and upset the 22nd-ranked [[Duke Blue Devils football|Duke Blue Devils]] 30&ndash;27. The play stirred controversy amid a number of missed calls by the Atlantic Coast Conference officiating crew. The game was on October 31, 2015.

In an NFL game in 2018, there was a play with two lateral passes for the only walk-off touchdown in NFL history. The [[Miami Dolphins]] NFL team pulled off the [[Miracle In Miami (2018)|only walk-off touchdown]] to involve multiple lateral passes in NFL history, completing two laterals for a 69-yard touchdown to beat the [[New England Patriots]] 34&ndash;33.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/american-football/46506054|title=Miracle in Miami: The Miami Dolphins beat the New England Patriots with a 'miracle' play - BBC Sport|work=BBC Sport|access-date=2018-12-10|language=en-GB}}</ref>  Miami had almost lost a game against the Pittsburgh Steelers five years prior via laterals, but managed to win when Antonio Brown stepped out of bounds at the thirteen-yard line. The game was on December 9, 2018.