In Week 3 of the 2015 season, the Seahawks were 0-2 and in need of a spark against the Bears. With the game scoreless in the first quarter, the Legion of Boom forced a Chicago punt; so far, so pedestrian. But then, something weird happened: Seattle receiver Ricardo Lockette fielded the punt, only he didn’t. He simply did a masterful job of acting like he had, even “losing his balance” and falling over while Bears converged on him like actual bears on an actual downed seahawk. Meanwhile, Richard Sherman — with nary an opposing player within 20 yards of him — fielded the ball on the complete other side of the field.

Sherman then sprinted down the sideline with the ball while nearly every Bear defender was still trying to figure out what the hell happened. Meanwhile, Punter Pat O’Donell, who knew exactly where he had kicked that ball, and linebacker Lamin Barrow, who really had some speed, finally caught up with Sherman after a 64-yard return. It was an incredibly sneaky, well-executed play which the Bears really should have anticipated better. After all, they themselves had pulled a similar trick back in 2011, and in 2014, the Rams had run the same play for a touchdown against the Seahawks, who had obviously filed the incident away for future reference.

In a November 1994 game, the 6-5 Jets met the 7-4 Dolphins in a game New York really wanted to win. The perennial laughingstocks were putting it together at just the right time and were determined to make a playoff run — but standing in the way was legendary Miami quarterback Dan Marino, who was having exactly none of that. New York led by 18 at one point, but Marino brought the Dolphins flipper-ing back — and along the way, he pulled one of the most famous trick plays in the history of the league out of his pocket, which will forever be known as the “Clock Play,” or alternatively, the “Fake Spike.”

Down by 3 with the clock running and no timeouts, Miami moved the ball to the Jets’ 8 yard line. Marino came up to the line of scrimmage, frantically gesturing and shouting, “Clock! Clock!” Everyone in the stadium, including the announcers, expected him to spike the ball, but he kept the ball in his hand. Assuming the play to be over, nearly everyone on the field relaxed except receiver Mark Ingram and rookie cornerback Aaron Glenn, who put it together a split second too late. Marino calmly hit Ingram for the game-winning touchdown, and even half the Dolphins were trying to figure out why the other half were cheering. Miami would go on to nab a division title, and the Jets would lose 32 of their next 36 games.

Perhaps there’s something in the water in Seattle that makes people super-trusting, but for whatever reason the Seahawks’ most egregious slip-up came when it mattered the most, in Super Bowl 40 against the Steelers. Antwaan Randle El, a very good receiver who happened to play QB in college, had scored on the Browns earlier in the season on a play designed to exploit that particular skill — the “Fake-39 Toss X-Reverse Pass,” which is as tricky as it sounds — and Pittsburgh decided that the 4th quarter of the Super Bowl was as good a time as any to give it another shot.

Up by four with about nine minutes left, the Steelers lined up at the Seattle 43. Randle El got the ball on a reverse, but he didn’t appear very interested in getting down the field. Instead, he zeroed in on receiver Hines Ward — another former college QB, weirdly enough — and hit him with a perfect pass, which Ward hauled in near the 5 before skipping merrily into the end zone. Pittsburgh went up 21-10, which would be the game’s final score, and Seattle was left wondering if “seahawk” actually means “sucker” in some other language.

The trick play that broke the hearts of Bills fans forever happened with 16 seconds left in a 2000 AFC Wild Card game between Buffalo and Tennessee. Up 12-0 at the half, the Titans had endured a furious comeback attempt by the Bills, with a pair of Antowain Smith rushing touchdowns putting Buffalo up 13-12 early in the fourth quarter. (A two-point conversion attempt on the second TD failed; this will become important.) A Tennessee field goal made it 15-13 just after the two-minute warning, but Buffalo drove down the field and kicked one of their own to go up by 1 with seconds left on the clock.

Titans fullback Lorenzo Neal fielded the line drive kickoff near the Tennessee 25, and that’s when it all went pear-shaped for the Bills. Neal lateraled to tight end Frank Wychek, who stopped in his tracks, took aim, and “lateraled” the ball halfway across the field, into the waiting arms of receiver Kevin Dyson. Dyson, with no defenders anywhere near him, sprinted 75 yards to paydirt as time expired. After taking all afternoon to make sure the lateral had not in fact been a forward pass (it wasn’t, by a hair), the referees declared the play legal, the touchdown good, and the game over. The Bills wouldn’t return to the playoffs for 18 years, and the “Music City Miracle” instantly became part of Titans lore; never mention it to a Bills fan, unless you want “FORWARD PASS!” screamed at you for an hour.