One of the most iconic plays in Super Bowl history – the Eagles’ “Philly Special” trick play used on fourth-and-goal against the New England Patriots – was born as “Detroit,” but not in Detroit.
Via a story by The MMQB’s Robert Klemko, it was born on a dirt baseball field in West Columbia, S.C. by a man named Hunter Spivey.
In 2011, Spivey was at a new school, Gray Military Academy (now Gray Military Academy), and was in charge of building the football program from scratch. Many of the student-athletes at Gray were South Carolinians who needed a year or two of post-graduate work to get their grades together or get their standardized testing scores up to get a spot at a college program.