Kickers miss field goals all the time. But New York Giants kicker Younghoe Koo found a way to miss during Monday's 33-15 loss in New England that may have never been seen before in the NFL.
Down 17-7 in the second quarter of a Monday Night Football game against the New England Patriots, Koo lined up for a 47-yard field goal attempt.
Koo - one of the most accurate kickers in NFL history - ran up to make the kick to bring the game within one score.
But rather than make contact, Koo's toe slammed directly into the turf about a half a yard before the ball.
In an awkward scene, Koo stumbled and fell forward after botching the routine procedure he's done thousands of times in his career.
Placeholder Jamie Gillan was left to fend for himself. The Patriots special teams swarmed him as he lost 13 yards and the ball went to New England via turnover on downs.
Fans flocked to social media to mock Koo for a truly spectacular miss, which many likened to the famed Charlie Brown-Lucy Van Pelt bit from the Peanuts comics.
'You tell me Charlie Brown got closer on his field goal attempt than an NFL kicker did?' one fan joked.
Another described the doomed field-goal attempt as the 'closest Charlie Brown cameo I've ever seen in the NFL.'
One critic went so far as to describe the scene as the 'most embarrassing moment in the history of the NFL.'
'Younghoe Koo is the first person to miss a field goal without kicking it,' wrote one user on X.
Another joked, 'If I'm Younghoe Koo I think I go ahead and just unplug from life, change the name, move to Canada, become a maple syrup salesman. Only way to recover from that is to completely cut ties with the world. No other realistic option.'
'Koo looked like he was using a wedge instead of an iron and chunked it,' wrote MSG Network's Madelyn Burke.
The Athletic's Robert Mays posted, 'Everyone making fun of Younghoe Koo like we all haven't done that in the tee box. Glass houses.'
Another user posted, 'There's no way the Giants can let Koo on the team plane home after that. Drop him off at the bus station and make him pay his own fare.'
The Giants have burned through three kickers this season. They cut ties with Jude McAtamney after he missed multiple kicks in a loss to the Denver Broncos.
Starting kicker Graham Gano, meanwhile, has dealt with injuries as well as accuracy issues.
