Arrowhead Stadium, Sunday, 2:50 p.m. -- Kansas City quarterback Trent Green drops back and lobs a 12-yard touchdown pass to tight end Tony Gonzalez to bring the Chiefs within a TD of the Jags. It's a great catch in an otherwise ho-hum game between two mediocre teams. The actual play lasts less than 24 seconds. In a flash, it's all over.

Not many players in the NFL could make this catch.

Or is it?

In a sports world saturated by instant replays, it was only just beginning.

2:53 -- The refs initially rule that Gonzalez did not get two feet inbounds. K.C. challenges. So the first eight replays come in a dizzying, rapid-fire yet slow-motion succession. Did he get his feet in? My mind changes with every new angle. But dang, that guy's got some ups. (Times reviewed: 9)

2:56 -- Finally, I get a look at who is defending in the end zone. (It's very important in my business to assess blame.) Gonzalez skies up in front of corner Fernando Bryant and the late-arriving Jags safety Donovin Darius. It looks like Green (three picks in his first two games) has once again wobbled one into double coverage. (10)

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2:58 -- In a wild bit of verbosity before making his ruling the refs says, "The receiver elevated. He gained possession of the ball. The first foot landed. The second foot hit. A knee hit. Then he lands out of bounds. Therefore, it is a touchdown." (11)

3:01 -- Missed most of this replay because I was checking out this ad on the JumboTron: Roger the Plumber, Johnson County's favorite plumber. I am reminded, however, that Gonzalez made the catch despite a sprained wrist suffered earlier in the game. (13)

3:04 -- This replay shows that Darius gets to the play late. It wasn't quite double coverage. Green made the right read. Have I mentioned that T-Gon's vertical leap is unreal? When a play is this spectacular you really can watch it over and over. (14)

4:35 -- After the game the subplots come out. After an ugly holdout that lasted all of camp, K.C. inked Gonzalez to a seven-year, $31 million contract. In his post-game press conference K.C. coach Dick Vermeil says, "The reason you pay him a lot of money is he can make a catch like he made. All receivers in the NFL can catch the ball. The guys that get a lot of money are the guys who catch the balls that the other guys can't catch. That's what he can do." (15)

4:44 -- T-Gon says after the catch he bounced up and immediately ran over to the ref and yelled, "HE PUSHED ME OUT, HE PUSHED ME OUT OF BOUNDS!" The Jags put him in man-to-man coverage quite a bit, which, in turn, shows the effect 2001 NFL rushing leader Priest Holmes has on defenses. The leap for the ball reminded Gonzalez of his hoop days. He really did look like a small forward going up and battling for a big board. He insists, however, that he wasn't the No. 1 read on the play. Green just trusts him to come up with the big catch. And in this league you can't put a pricetag on that. "I knew he'd throw it to me and that's the way I like it," says Gonzalez, "I'm not down, the future is bright. I know what we're capable of here." It better be more than this -- the Chiefs face the Pats this week. (16)

4:55 -- In between games, the barrage of highlights begin. I think Deion Sanders is talking about the play but I can't hear him over his suit. Green is being abused about his picks and poor decisions. What these replays show, by accident I might add, is he really hung in the pocket under some serious pressure to get the ball off. (19)

6:01 -- Walking to my car across the empty parking lot, I step over coagulated bloody mary mix and chicken bones. The smell of beer and urine permeate the air. Three Chiefs fans play catch. "THREE CATCHES!" one yells. "THIRTY-ONE MILLION FOR THREE CATCHES?" (20)

6:48 -- So far the replays are a mile wide and an inch deep. The replays are like candy, they satisfy quickly but the hunger returns. I tune into a local affiliate for some weightier coverage. But instead of game highlights I get this: "Coming up, we'll show you a local dog who is putting his best foot forward after having two of his legs amputated." Let me guess, his name's Lucky.

8:30 -- "How 'bout that play by Gonzalez, huh?" I ask my room service waiter before shelling out the requisite 84 percent hotel gratuity. "Ehhh, who cares, they lost the game." Fine, make that 82 percent. (21)

10:00 -- It takes six more replays before I get a good look at it, but I'm pretty sure K.C. center Casey Wiegmann just barely holds off tackle Marcus Stroud, who misses Green by half a second. This is a game of inches. It really is. (27)

10:17 -- One station teases its disjointed coverage with the TD catch edited together with Green's drop-back from another pass. (28)

10:22 -- This was the 32nd TD catch of Gonzalez's career and his 21st consecutive game with at least one grab.

10:32 -- As the players come crashing down to earth in the corner of the end zone, the concept of Fight or Flight is demonstrated in living color on a replay that shows one photographer scrambling for his life and another standing as still as a statue trying to get the shot. (29)

10:40 -- Check out the wide-eyed, jaw-dropping looks on people's faces in the stands behind the play. Maximum body english. Cool. In a second, right there, you see why people love the NFL so much. (30)

12:31 a.m. -- All of the graphics plastered on TV screens these days -- network logos, local affiliate symbols, scoreboard, telestrator, time and temp -- they give you the feeling you're looking through a car windshield covered in smushed bugs. On this round, I do see a super late-arriving free safety Marion McCree trying to convince the ref that Gonzalez had landed out of bounds. (31)

8:30 -- The K.C. Star runs a huge, stunning picture of the catch. Gonzalez has jumped so high his hips are above the first row of the stands. "Should Gonzalez cap his career by entering the Pro Football Hall of Fame, the catch will surely be included in his highlight reel," the paper says. (32)

10:55 -- "That was a hell of a catch," Holmes tells me while we gas up his Navigator. "There aren't a lot of players in this game who could come down with that ball."

3:40 p.m. -- With a wrap around his sprained right wrist Gonzalez makes his best grab yet: During a quick trip through the locker room, his 1-year-old son, Nikko, is trying to squirm out of his arms, but T-Gon gets a firm grip on him before a costly, and painful, fumble. (33)

4:40 -- "I can tell you this much," Vermeil says during a quick interview almost a day after the catch, "by 5 p.m. that (Jags) game will be out of my mind and gone." (34)

I wish I could say the same thing.

I vow that next time I see a great play I will spare myself all this and just do something really bizarre and unconventional.

Pay attention the first time.

David Fleming is a senior writer for ESPN The Magazine. E-mail him at flemfile@aol.com. But watch out -- you could be the WHYLO of the Week.