When you peruse the play-by-play logs from Saturday’s VMI-Toledo game — something a normal person would do casually, no doubt — you come across this line item:

TEAM punt BLOCKED, recovered by TOLEDO THOMPSON, Cody at VMI3 (blocked by THOMPSON, Cody), THOMPSON, Cody for 3 yards to the VMI0, TOUCHDOWN, clock 10:38.

Ah, that’s cool for Toledo. A blocked punt got returned for a touchdown! One of football’s most exciting plays, which happens a few dozen times per year nationally, at least.

The video shows there’s more (or less, in a way) to it, though.

It went in the books as a blocked punt returned for a TD, but this is the most flatly disrespectful blocked punt ever.

In that it’s part block, part impossible catch, part return, all in a fluid motion:

VMI punter Reed King didn’t deserve this fate. The Rockets’ Cody Thompson was practically in his lap a second after he caught the long snap.

But Thompson pretty much ruined King’s life by not just blocking the punt, but catching it without breaking stride and carrying himself into the VMI end zone just by riding out his bodily momentum. There are so few things in football that any of us have never seen before, but have you ever seen that? I definitely haven’t and figure I might not again.

Toledo won, 66-3. But the NCAA actually stepped in after this block/return/feat of football nature to declare the Rockets the victors on the spot.*

*Not really. But that would’ve been fun!