The Green Bay Packers resoundingly outplayed the Seattle Seahawks in Sunday's NFC Championship Game, but they still managed to lose thanks to a litany of coaching mistakes and the most notable gaffe in recent playoff history.
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Despite all of the factors that allowed Seattle to get back into the game, Green Bay could have sealed up their trip to the Super Bowl if they had only managed to recover Seattle's onside kick attempt. On the fateful play, tight end Brandon Bostick leapt for the ball, only to have it go through his hands and bounce off his face, allowing Seattle to recover.
The mistake was bad enough, but it actually gets worse for Packers fans. Astute viewers surely noticed during the game that Bostick cut off star wide receiver Jordy Nelson to try and catch the kick. Nelson is considered one of the most sure-handed receivers in the league, and he had a clear path to the kick before the tight end jumped in front of him.
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It still gets worse. According to Pro Football Talk, Bostick was not even supposed to go for the kick. He was supposed to block a Seattle player to allow Nelson to make an easy catch unimpeded.
"I felt like I had my hands on the ball and it went through," Bostick said. "I got hit and I didn't have the ball. ... It wasn't my job at all. I was supposed to block. I just reacted to the ball and thought I could get it. Obviously, I couldn't."
The move is already being compared to other famous playoff blunders, most notably the infamous ground ball that went between the legs of Bill Buckner in the 1986 World Series, which likely cost the Red Sox a championship that would have broken the Curse of the Bambino.
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