Nostalgia is a powerful drug, and I might just be high off a memory, but in my educated, debatable opinion, Henry "Gizmo" Williams gave us the greatest individual play in a championship football game , ever, in the 1987 Grey Cup.

Better than the Philly Special in Super Bowl LII; better than Rocket Ismail leaving the Calgary Stampeders in his vapour trail in 1991; better than Ronnie Lott knocking Ickey Woods senseless to turn the tide in Super Bowl XXIII.

A 46-yard field goal attempt by Toronto's Lance Chomyk drifted wide right, and into the hands of Williams, whose 5-foot-6 frame rippled with 185 pounds of fast-twitch muscle, and who still might be the greatest return man any form of this sport has ever seen. The record book says the subsequent missed field goal runback was 1

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