a toss-sweep that turned into a flea flicker, Patricia was greeted with a chorus of cheers and players shouting, “First play.” The Lions didn’t call it on their first offensive snap Sunday ...

Maybe it's National Flea-Flicker Day. Just grasping for an explanation during Sunday's NFL conference championship games. There were four trick passing plays, three of them classic flea-flickers.

RICHMOND, Va. -- When you're a football-crazy grade schooler, as I was when I watched this game way back in 1978, and your favorite team wins a game on a flea-flicker touchdown pla ...

The New York Giants have put a lot of bad play on film this season but none of it compared to a third-and-1 flea-flicker that failed spectacularly on Sunday in Germany. Trailing 10-0 with just ...

The Giants tried a flea-flicker in the second quarter of their ... Adding to the questionable nature of the play call, the Giants were facing third-and-1 on their own 49-yard line and had been ...

New York Giants head coach Brian Daboll thought he had the perfect, surprise call dialed up for a second-quarter 3rd-and-1 from his own 49-yard line. The play was a flea flicker in which the ...

The play was a flea flicker in which the Giants, going against zone coverage, had not one, but two receivers–Malik Nabers and Wan’Dale Robinson–wide open over the middle. But instead of ...

A lot went wrong for the Giants in this one, but one play call in particular resulted ... the Giants dialed up a flea flicker that resulted in Jones missing a pair of wide open receivers and ...

"Why did I bench LaPorta this week!" another rued. "Shoutout to the Linemen for making this play possible," another saluted. As of this writing, the Lions are up 40-9 on the Cowboys. Jared Goff ...

The Detroit Lions broke out a nifty trick play against the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday. In the second quarter, with about 11:49 left in the first half, Jared Goff tossed the ball to David Montgomery ...

and a shining example of that was the flea flicker he drew up in the second quarter that resulted in a long touchdown. The play saw quarterback Jared Goff flip the ball to running back David ...