Florida HS Football Star Breaks Tackles and Scores on Wildly Impressive Run
You can try to tackle DeShawn Smith, but you will fail horribly.
Yahoo! Sports' Cameron Smith reports on this video taken from a Florida high school football game that features one of the more satisfying touchdown runs we have seen this season.
The Tampa Bay Times' Matt Baker has more on this play, including another video that shows the run from another vantage point.
With 2:48 left in the game, Smith's Nature Coast Tech (Brooksville, Fla.) lines up against Pasco High (Dade County, Fla.), down 28-21.
As you can see from the video, their strategy of handing the ball to Smith was a wise one. With the game on the line, the sophomore sprints, jukes and breaks off a slippery run that we can't stop watching.
It all starts with one Pasco defender running him down and seemingly getting a hand on his leg. Somehow, the running back breaks free of what looks like a pile of dark jerseys.
That would be enough to pique our interest, but then he rolls over, maintaining possession while also keeping himself up with one arm.
And just like Keyser Soze, he was gone.
He runs a reported 50 yards, taking it to the house and helping his team pull off a come-from-behind marvel. His thoughts, according to Baker: "Score. Just score." So we can chalk this fantastic run up to some very handy tunnel vision and remarkable football prowess.
After the touchdown, Tech would get the two-point conversion and the win, 29-28. Beyond that, we can now lump Smith in with John McClane, Rambo and Chuck Norris as people who can't be taken down with conventional methods.
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