A 'double doink' might not be a familiar term for football fans in the UK but it brought a lot of attention to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Sunday afternoon.
Spurs' home was hosting its fifth NFL game since 2019 as the New Orleans Saints and Minnesota Vikings did battle in north London and none of the games so far have produced the late drama that came this time around. In the final seconds of Sunday's encounter, Saints kicker Wil Lutz had to attempt a huge 61-yard field goal in order to send the game into overtime, having already sunk a big 60-yard kick earlier in the game.
The 28-year-old wound up and launched another massive kick towards the posts but the ball veered through the air and hit the left-hand upright before bouncing on to the crossbar and then dropping down agonisingly on the wrong side of it. Such a moment, rare with the distances involved, has been labelled a 'double doink' since a famous last-gasp field goal attempt in the 2018 NFC Wild Card game by Chicago Bears kicker Cody Parkey struck both the upright and crossbar and fell the wrong way.
