"We all remember the play - how Darren Sproles took the handoff, slipped through a tackle in the backfield, sprinted along the sideline, past two would-be tacklers and then through another pair of arms as he cut back inside and kept those little legs churning into the end zone to give the Chargers an overtime playoff victory against the Indianapolis Colts in January 2009.

That play - which capped a night in which Sproles gained 328 all-purpose yards as a severe groin tear reduced LaDainian Tomlinson to a spectator -- is as good as any to capture Sproles' legacy as a Charger.

Asked the one play in their time together that defined Sproles' ability to turn nil into thrill, though, Philip Rivers recalled several long seconds that occurred a few plays earlier."